Picture software

[Christopher Chan]

On Wednesday, July 14, 2010 07:31 AM, p.echols at comcast.net wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
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>> 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.
>>
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> 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)
>

I busted me brain trying to do something in GIMP. I used CorelXara a 
while back and xaralx let me do what I want easily. Overlaying stuff on 
a picture with GIMP was way too much 'how do I get a box with a curved 
side' whereas xaralx was plain simple.