<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eamonn Sullivan</b> <<a href="mailto:eamonn.sullivan@gmail.com">eamonn.sullivan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 2/3/07, Robin Menneer <<a href="mailto:robinmenneer@gmail.com">robinmenneer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Thanks for the tips - Inskscape is already on my ubuntu package and I'll<br>> look at it. Is there any equivalent to iphoto, a brilliant apple mac
<br>> program for simply tweaking photos ? Robin<br><br>My wife and my mother ("Folder? What's a folder?") have found F-Spot<br>to be an acceptable alternative to iPhoto. I've been forcing them to<br>
use it by putting the higher-end photo printer on Ubuntu and putting<br>the work-a-day homework printer on the Mac. (I don't have to worry<br>about them ever finding how to use a shared printer, although that's<br>
perfectly possible...) F-Spot doesn't have the one-button "make my<br>photo look better" button that iPhoto has (which is brilliant), but it<br>has all the other features you'd normally use, like red-eye removal.
<br><br>You can even upload photos easily to Flickr from F-Spot. The iPhoto<br>add-on to do that recently became shareware. I think F-Spot became the<br>default photo handler in the latest version, Edgy.<br><br>-Eamonn<br>
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https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a><br></blockquote></div><br>I've had a skirmish with f-spot and cannot get the download button to do other than to send me to a log-in page which won't recognise a user name - which one is this ? I'm lower in the intelligence scale than your two dear ladies. Help please. Robin
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