Probably 90% of my image work is taking an image (maybe a screenshot or photo), making some very basic changes like rotate, crop, scale (usually to reduce filesize), and saving it.
I seem to have a collection of tools which view only (like EoG) but load instantly on minimal resources, and sophisticated apps like GIMP which will do anything I might ever need but more slowly.
What's a good app for every-day image stuff like this?
I'd accept - and even quite like - a few extra bells, like highlighting/blurring/annotating, as long as it doesn't become cumbersome to use or slow to load.
<rant>Bonus for something which doesn't give me a single "rotate 90deg" option; why does eveyone expect me to do three rotates instead of one?</rant>
On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 05:30:02PM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
Probably 90% of my image work is taking an image (maybe a screenshot or photo), making some very basic changes like rotate, crop, scale (usually to reduce filesize), and saving it.
I seem to have a collection of tools which view only (like EoG) but load instantly on minimal resources, and sophisticated apps like GIMP which will do anything I might ever need but more slowly.
What's a good app for every-day image stuff like this?
Is the usual answer to this not imagemagick, or are you looking for something with a GUI?
J.
On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 at 17:33, Jonathan McDowell noodles@earth.li wrote:
Is the usual answer to this not imagemagick, or are you looking for something with a GUI?
Yes, GUI.
To be clear I'm not talking about batch processes, where Imagemagick would be my goto. Just want a viewer with basic editing capabilities, rather than a viewer that can't do anything else at all, or an editor that can do too much.
Eg: Train is delayed, take photo of the ticket to claim for the delay, Need to crop it to get rid of any rubbish, rotate it perhaps, and reduce the image scale to fit the daft 3MB upload limit. Or: have a screenshot, want to cut a bit of it off for emailing to a support person. Or: Have a photo which needs rotating and extraneous stuff cut off. That kind of day-to-day image stuff, no pattern to it, but never anything complex.
Part of the motivation is that often I might have several images that are candidates to be used, so I have to open them in a viewer first to see which I'm going to use, before then locating the same image in GIMP just so I can crop it to the view I had open in the viewer. GIMP would be weak at the viewing part, and over complicated for the editing part. EoG goes 90% of where I need to get but without that last 10% I'm nowhere.
Mark
I use Pinta on my very old Lubuntu laptop I keep on my canal/river boat. It's a Celeron with 1GB Ram that struggles with Gimp but is fine with Pinta for basic boat blogging photos.
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Probably 90% of my image work is taking an image (maybe a screenshot or photo), making some very basic changes like rotate, crop, scale (usually to reduce filesize), and saving it.
I seem to have a collection of tools which view only (like EoG) but load instantly on minimal resources, and sophisticated apps like GIMP which will do anything I might ever need but more slowly.
What's a good app for every-day image stuff like this?
I'd accept - and even quite like - a few extra bells, like highlighting/blurring/annotating, as long as it doesn't become cumbersome to use or slow to load.
<rant>Bonus for something which doesn't give me a single "rotate 90deg" option; why does eveyone expect me to do three rotates instead of one?</rant>
On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 17:30:02 +0100 Mark Rogers mark@more-solutions.co.uk allegedly wrote:
Probably 90% of my image work is taking an image (maybe a screenshot or photo), making some very basic changes like rotate, crop, scale (usually to reduce filesize), and saving it.
I seem to have a collection of tools which view only (like EoG) but load instantly on minimal resources, and sophisticated apps like GIMP which will do anything I might ever need but more slowly.
What's a good app for every-day image stuff like this?
I'd accept - and even quite like - a few extra bells, like highlighting/blurring/annotating, as long as it doesn't become cumbersome to use or slow to load.
<rant>Bonus for something which doesn't give me a single "rotate 90deg" option; why does eveyone expect me to do three rotates instead of one?</rant>
Mark
Take a look at simple image reducer.
Mick
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Personally I use Darktable which is probably a bit overkill for what you need. My next thought was Inkscape which is often recommended but having a play around with it, it doesn't seem very intuitive. What I would suggest you have a look at is Fotoxx. Seems to do all you ask and pretty simple to use with a small footprint.
On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 at 19:05, mick mbm@rlogin.net wrote:
On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 17:30:02 +0100 Mark Rogers mark@more-solutions.co.uk allegedly wrote:
Probably 90% of my image work is taking an image (maybe a screenshot or photo), making some very basic changes like rotate, crop, scale (usually to reduce filesize), and saving it.
I seem to have a collection of tools which view only (like EoG) but load instantly on minimal resources, and sophisticated apps like GIMP which will do anything I might ever need but more slowly.
What's a good app for every-day image stuff like this?
I'd accept - and even quite like - a few extra bells, like highlighting/blurring/annotating, as long as it doesn't become cumbersome to use or slow to load.
<rant>Bonus for something which doesn't give me a single "rotate 90deg" option; why does eveyone expect me to do three rotates instead of one?</rant>
Mark
Take a look at simple image reducer.
Mick
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On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 at 12:14, Tony Bronze tony.m.bronze@gmail.com wrote:
My next thought was Inkscape which is often recommended but having a play around with it, it doesn't seem very intuitive.
I do use Inkscape for some tasks but it has the same footprint problem as GIMP. I want something that is my default when I double-click on an image in Nautilus, so it needs to open instantly. I don't want to see a splash screen while plugins are loaded, for example.
What I would suggest you have a look at is Fotoxx. Seems to do all you ask and pretty simple to use with a small footprint.
Fotoxx looks interesting but it gets in the way a bit more (having tried it for maybe 10s!) than gThumb that came up elsewhere in the thread so I'm going to see how I get on with gThumb first.
Thanks though.
On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 at 19:05, mick mbm@rlogin.net wrote:
Take a look at simple image reducer.
I just installed this to have a look. Looks like it needs an update - it won't run on Ubuntu 19.04 without a hack to it's python script - but having got past that it seems to be just a GUI to a batch processing reduce/rotate tool, which means I'm not explaining what I want very well.
The image viewing part is an essential part of what I need - I'm looking for something which would replace my default image viewer (Eye of Gnome), but add the ability to make minor tweaks to images.
I'm looking for EoG++, not GIMP-- or ImageMagick+GUI, if that makes sense.
Mark
I thought this was a pretty common need hence looking for recommendations, but I'm guessing not!
From a bit of Googling and searching the Ubuntu repos. I've installed
mirage which does a fair bit of what I want, I'll experiment a bit and see how I get on. Other candidates were gwenview and ephoto, but as they're from the KDE and Enlightenment projects respectively both came with quite high install overheads on my Gnome install, so I'll try mirage for now.
Thanks for the suggestions.
On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 at 11:37, Mark Rogers mark@more-solutions.co.uk wrote:
I thought this was a pretty common need hence looking for recommendations, but I'm guessing not!
Have you tried Gthumb? I used it a lot in the past, I found it fairly light and fast enough for the more minimal photo editing as opposed to anything like gimp.
John
On 05/09/2019 12:10, John Cohen wrote:
On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 at 11:37, Mark Rogers mark@more-solutions.co.uk wrote:
I thought this was a pretty common need hence looking for recommendations, but I'm guessing not!
Have you tried Gthumb? I used it a lot in the past, I found it fairly light and fast enough for the more minimal photo editing as opposed to anything like gimp.
John
Though many things are more minimal than gimp. I look to the day when someone creates an intuitive graphics program!
I find editing photos on a phone far simpler.
Bev.
On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 at 12:11, John Cohen johnmcohen@gmail.com wrote:
Have you tried Gthumb? I used it a lot in the past, I found it fairly light and fast enough for the more minimal photo editing as opposed to anything like gimp.
I hadn't tried (or heard of) it but it looks like it is a better fit than mirage.
Thanks!
On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 11:36:55 +0100 Mark Rogers mark@more-solutions.co.uk allegedly wrote:
I thought this was a pretty common need hence looking for recommendations, but I'm guessing not!
From a bit of Googling and searching the Ubuntu repos. I've installed mirage which does a fair bit of what I want, I'll experiment a bit and see how I get on. Other candidates were gwenview and ephoto, but as they're from the KDE and Enlightenment projects respectively both came with quite high install overheads on my Gnome install, so I'll try mirage for now.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Mark
I've just noticed that shutter (which I use for screenshots) has an edit function which looked to be disabled. However, if you add the requisite additional debs (see, for example, https://www.cyberciti.biz/open-source/linux-screenshot-program-tool/ or https://www.reallinuxuser.com/shutter-is-the-best-screenshot-tool-for-linux/ it becomes quite a useful quick editor.
Mick
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On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 at 16:44, mick mbm@rlogin.net wrote:
I've just noticed that shutter (which I use for screenshots) has an edit function which looked to be disabled. However, if you add the requisite additional debs [...] it becomes quite a useful quick editor.
Interesting, thanks!
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