[ale] Image programs for Linux?

Christopher R. Curzio ale at accipiter.org
Thu Nov 18 05:29:35 EST 2004


ImageMagick. 

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Thus Spake Jay Loden <jloden at toughguy.net>:
Wed, 17 Nov 2004 23:33:06 -0500


> I'm a hardcore Linux user, won't be going back to using Windows ever, if
> I can help it, but there is ONE thing that I just haven't found for
> Linux that I had on Windows, and that's Irfanview. 
> 
> Irfanview, for those who don't know it, is a small, fast image editor
> and viewer for Windows.  It's tiny, and fast, yet it lets you do a whole
> host of image editing, like resizing, renaming, slideshow creation, more
> than I can even list.  Does anyone out there know of anything similar
> for Linux? 
> 
> Kuickshow at least is a fast image viewer, and lets you do an extremely 
> limited number of things (convert an image to a new format, for example)
> but I need something that at least lets me do simple resize, rotate,
> crop, and some ehancements and preferably some filters.  (irfanview has
> a small set of nice filters like greyscale and whatnot, some image
> sharpeners, and so forth). 
> 
> Before someone says it, I know the GIMP can do a lot of these things,
> BUT, the GIMP is a lot heavier than what I want, and not the most
> convenient tool for the job.  It's like opening Photoshop just to resize
> your digital photos - overkill. 
> 
> -Jay
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