Re: [LUG] Alternative to GIMP

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Subject: Re: [LUG] Alternative to GIMP

From: Adrian Midgley <amidgley@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 08:37:48 +0100

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A script doing image magic perhaps?

I'd stick with the Gimp actually but it might be nice to be able to turn a lot of menu items off or aggregate the few you commonly use on a user defined user menu.

May be possible, might be a devel. Request even.

From Dr Adrian Midgley's hand

On 14 Apr 2014 13:32, "Neil Winchurst" <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I Âdo use Gimp quite often but I find it a bit heavy going sometimes.
It seems to be a bit OTT for me much of the time. Very often I am
preparing a photo for one of my blogs so I do not need to do much.

Very often all I do is,

crop it a bit if needed
scale the image
sharpen it up a bit
check levels
check curves
add a border
flatten the image
export it to jpg

I know that there is so much more available in Gimp but I am talking
about preparing a photo for showing on the web, not for printing. So I
am wondering if anyone could suggest a program similar to Gimp but
simpler to use, that is much less of a heavyweight.

Thanks,

Neil

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