[ale] Image programs for Linux?

[Mlfveer at cs.com]

IrfanView is a great tool. Check sourceforge.net for image viewer/editors. Tons of ongoing development projects dealing with graphics.

MLF

www.sigmascape.com



Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:

>Jay Loden wrote:
>> 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. 
>
>xv
>display which comes with imagemagick. ?imagemagick has a number of other 
>tools as well.
>
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>Until later, Geoffrey
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