Picture software

[p.echols at comcast.net]

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Christopher Chan" <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 8:32:55 PM
> Subject: Re: Picture software
> 
> On Tuesday, July 13, 2010 09:11 AM, Jim Smith wrote:
> > Is there a simple utility for re-sizing photos? I need to take a
> few
> > pictures from a digital camera and make them smaller in order to
> use
> > them as wallpaper on mobile devices. Gimp didn't work for me,
> probably a
> > user error, and Picasa didn't have an option to create a custom
> size.
> > I'm using  Karmic.
> 
> Install xaralx.
> 


Isn't Xara mostly vector oriented?  I imagine it can do the job, but if OP was looking for easy, then a program full of vector tool menus may not fit the bill.  ('Course, I haven't tried it either)

-- PE