image manipulation tool question

[Eric S. Johansson]

recently picked up a cheapo digital camera.  My wife wants to use it for 
creating pictures she can put up on the web as well as general snapshots 
of things in our world.  Now she wants to be able to manipulate 
(re-scale, decimate resolution, crop) images and upload them to sites 
like Flickr.

The problem is, she is a *Magic user* when it comes to technology. 
Being the sadistic husband that I am, I've set her up with Linux.  so 
far, she does okay with a few spells that I've given her.  but to tell 
you the truth, I don't know what image processing application is simple 
enough for her to use.  She's tried gimp and run away screaming.  Any 
suggestions of what picture applications would be friendly for a magic 
user?  Additionally, are there any tools one could use to perform a 
batch conversion on a set of images.  For example converting all the 
images from the default resolution to a webpage friendly resolution.

---eric