[geeks] Quick Photo Manipulation Program

[Phil Stracchino]

Joshua Boyd wrote:
> Does any one have a suggestion for a program that would excel at opening 
> photos and cropping, scaling, and rotating them on OSX?  Preferably a 
> gui program, not cli.  And it needs to be fairly fast, and not try to 
> take over managing my photos.  Free is fairly highly prefered.
> 
> A few answers that I don't consider acceptable are:
> Photoshop (full or elements)
> PaintShop Pro
> Gimp
> iPhoto
> 
> Photoshop and Gimp aren't fast enough (I don't want to wait several 
> minutes just to rotate/scale/crop), I don't want PSP, and iPhoto insists 
> on loading everything into it's library.
> 
> I've spent a little time looking, but I can't seem to find anything that 
> is clearly right.  I suppose I could try the demo of pixelmator, but is 
> seems a shame to spend $60 for such a simple task.

You could try xv, which will do all of those, though it doesn't scale 
images as cleanly as Gimp.

If all you want to do is rotate a photo without making other changes to 
it, I'd use jpegtran.  It's cli, but it can rotate jpegs losslessly.


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