Simple photo improvements: Fotoxx or alternatives?

[NoOp]

On 05/20/2009 04:17 AM, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>> On 05/19/2009 07:23 AM, Bryan wrote:
>>   
>>> Google's Picassa (free) has an easy to use interface and has some
>>> touch-up functionality: http://picasa.google.com/
>>>     
>>
>> +1 on Picasa. Particularly for a Windows user convert. The new version
>> for linux (Picasa 3) pretty much rocks IMO & is simple to use. Touch up
>> includes: recrop, straighten, redeye, auto contrast, auto color retouch,
>> text, fill light, shadows, highlights, color temperature, effects, etc.
>>
>> http://picasa.google.com/linux/
>>
>>
>>
>>   
>     I have version 2.7 and it does the same things. It is quite capable 
> of removing red eye. I did it and it works fine.
> 
> Karl
> 
> 

You are missing new features:

http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=112056
http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=112057

Plus it seems to be much faster & better behaved than 2.x.

You might want to give 3.0beta a try:
http://picasa.google.com/linux/download.html#picasa30
http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/testrepo.html
http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/aboutkey.html