Photography

[Norman Silverstone]

I want to restart an old hobby of mine - photography. In the old days I
had a camera which used film and a darkroom with an enlarger, chemicals
and various pieces of processing equipment. Now, I have a digital
camera, a computer running Ubuntu and a colour printer. I can transfer
my photographs from my camera to my computer, look at them, even
manipulate them and that is as far as I can go. So, can someone please
help me.

The only software I have is gThumb, which is good to start with and Gimp
which is far too complicated. I have an Epson Stylus Photo R300 colour
printer and I can print from gThumb but not from Gimp. Furthermore,
gThumb produces prints with a 20mm border, which cannot be altered. 20mm
is far too big, 2mm to 5mm would be acceptable but I would prefer no
border at all.

So, friends what do I do? The obvious is to revert to Windows where I
can find all the software I could possibly want but I would prefer not
to do this. There must be other people here who are practical
photographers and don't have all their photographs commercially
processed. So, what is my next step.

Norman