Looking for recommendations: simple GIMP

[David Groos]

This looks like a professional tool as well as tightly organized--probably
more than I want to teach to my 9th grade science students IF I find a
simpler tool.  Looks like the tool for my own work :-).  Thanks Jordan

David

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Jordan Mantha <laserjock at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> I tend to use Inkscape a lot for that kind of thing. It's a little bit
> more friendly than GIMP and does raster graphics which often look
> nicer. I used it for annotating all my figures in my dissertation.
>
> -Jordan
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:42 AM, David Groos <djgroos at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I want students to be able to annotate images, such as photos taken
> through
> > a microscope, adding arrows and labels to parts of the image, for
> example.
> > It might also be nice if there were contrast/brightness/saturation
> > controls.  Need the ability to export back to jpeg/png.  I don't want
> really
> > any other capabilities.  I just used GIMP for the first time and I had to
> > wade through 'layers' and tons of other concepts that I don't need but it
> > does look awesome.  Does anyone have advice on software that would be
> good
> > for this need?  This is a very key app in a science classroom and will
> form
> > part of the basic set of apps for my program.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > David
> >
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