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Re: [LUG] Photo editord

 

On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 13:13:39 +0100 (BST)
Gordon Henderson <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Neil Winchurst wrote:
> 
> > My daughter has a fairly new camera. Yesterday she tried to send me
> > an email with some of her pictures. She does not know about
> > scaling an image prior to sending it as an attachment. There were
> > some problems!
> >
> > I use GIMP for any photo editing, but I think that is far too big a
> > program for her to use. So I am looking for a simple photo
> > editing program. I have had a look around and have installed
> > LightZone as a first try to see how that works out. Not sure yet.
> >
> > Does anyone have any recommendations for a simple photo editing
> > program which I could set up on her computer? Really just to make
> > sure that any attachments are not too big.
> 
> Why are big attachments a problem? This is 2015. The days of the
> super compressed GIF are long gone.
> 
> Get used to dealing with big image files - they're going to quadruple
> in size every few years. You're trying to solve the wrong problem.
> 

One of the emails had several photo attachments. Claws mail just
crashed when I tried to open it. Thunderbird managed but took a long
time. So perhaps the problem was just too many attachments.

Neil 


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