On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 09:37:42PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
Trying gthumb (which I do have installed) does much of what I want much more straightforwardly, thank you! :-)
You probably also have ImageMagick installed (which is a suite of programs). I like this for most basic (and many not so basic) image manipulations.
One of the programs is 'display' (which does more than it says on the box).
1: $> display myimage.jpg
2: left-click on image to get the main menu window.
3: click 'Transform' -> 'Crop'
4: Select the region (starting with top left-hand corner) by mouse drag.
5: When you release the mouse, you will have the selected region outlined, and a new sub-menu. Click 'Crop'.
6: Then you get the main menu again. Under 'File' you get a choice of things to do next with the cropped image (including 'Print').
If, during 4, you get it wrong, then at 5 click 'Dismiss' and start again.
Very straightforward!
Yes, I like it, thanks!