On 11-Aug-08 20:06:53, Chris G wrote:
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 09:02:05PM +0100, mbm wrote:
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:50:28 +0100 Chris G cl@isbd.net allegedly wrote:
I guess I'm just not quite familiar enough with the Gimp to find it easy to use when I, occasionally, need to use it.
The Gimp isn't the easiest program to use, unless you you do use it a lot. If you have gnome, then gthumb image editor gives a quick and easy crop/save/print option.
Exactly - the Gimp is overkill for what I wanted to do.
I sort of thought that gthumb was what was opening my JPEG file when I first tried, just a second....
... ah, no, by default the program that opens JPEG files is "Eye of Gnome".
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!
Ted.
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