Cropping photos (Astronomy, Graphics & Video Software [WAS: VMWare / Wine))

[NoOp]

On 02/24/2007 10:13 AM, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> On 23/02/07, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:

>>
>> > HP PhotoDelux (like Photoshop Lite) -- Yes, yes, I know that the Gimp is
>> > supposed to be great - and I am determined to spend the time to figure
>> > it out if I can, (especially since Photodelux is on the home desktop and
>> > not the lappy where it belongs.) But it seems to me that the interfaces
>> > are completely non intuitive.  Just trying to crop a picture left me
>> > pulling hair out, let alone trying to get a layer to act as advertised . . .
>>

You can run PhotoDelux under WINE. Or, if you want something very simple
install Google's Picasa:
http://picasa.google.com/linux/

>> If all you need to do is resize, crop, simple color adjust, etc., then
>> the gThumb image viewer that comes with Ubuntu ought to do what you
>> want. It's pretty straightforward. Just right-click on an image and
>> choose "Open With ...--> gThumb Image Viewer"

That works - Picasa is a little easier & userfriendly. For any real
photo work I prefer Gimp.

> 
> I must agree -- cropping images just doesn't seem to exist in FLOSS.
> Recently I was trying to use only FLOSS to set up a file (so that I
> knew I could tell some students it was possible). I tried OO.org,
> Abiword and GIMP and ended up firing up MS Word because the FL/OSS
> couldn't manage to present an intuitive cropping facility. GIMP could
> but it was nowhere quick, Abiword and OO.org simply couldn't manage it
> (I think one of the two offered an interface that you could TYPE in
> some constraints but this is 2007, NOT 1984!!!).
> 
> Anyway, my encounter with OO.org and Abiword wasn't all bad. OO.org is
> as oversized as Word without some of the more useful pieces of Word
> (most notably Word compatibility ;-), but Abiword shows incredible

What "compatibility" issues did you have with OOo? You can load Word
docs, exit, save as, etc. OOo inlcudes Write, Calc, Draw, Base - that's
hardly an oversized Word. That said; neither OOo Write, Word, or Abiword
are useful for cropping photos. Why would you even attempt that?