Simple photo improvements: Fotoxx or alternatives?

[Karl F. Larsen]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> I remember gthumb to have a magic operation called "Enhance". I never
>> investigated what it actually did, but in many test cases it gave
>> surprisingly pleasing results.
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> Thanks, I will give that a try and possibly suggest it to the user.
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>> Normally I fear buttons supposing to automatically do what I want before
>> I could tell them what I want.
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> The user is coming from an OS where it was not expected of him to ever
> know what he wants.
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    I was amazed! On Hardy I had to apt-get install gthumb! It is still 
short of some lib but it seems to work like it did on older versions. I 
recall using it to flip the picture and change the size of the jpg 
files. Also change the compression of the jpg on a picture.


Karl


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