>From: "Kwan Lowe" <kwan@digitalhermit.com>
>Reply-To: slug@nks.net
>To: slug@nks.net
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] simple image cropping program
>Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:26:26 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
> > I'm looking for a lightweight image viewer for Linux that is capable of
> > cropping and saving the modified image. Something similiar to IrfanView
> > would be ideal as the potential user is not very computer-savvy. GTK2
>is
> > the preferred toolkit but I'll settle for others if they fit the bill.
> > Thanks in advance!
>
>Not exactly lightweight, but I use Gimp for this. It has crop and rotate
>tools. Rotate can be 90, 180, 270 degrees, or arbitrary rotations using the
>transform tool. Besides cropping, it can also resize based on physical
>dimensions or absolute pixel number (e.g., 3" x 5", or 600 x 800 pixels).
>It
>also allows export to various image formats.
GIMP is very powerful but I was hoping for something a little more
simplistic. This is going to be for my parents who will use it to crop
their eBay pictures. I'm worried that the GIMP's interface would seem
confusing to them.
-Jonathon
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