[geeks] Quick Photo Manipulation Program

[Doug McLaren]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 02:37:28AM -0500, Dave Fischer wrote:

| If you open an image in xv that's too large to view, it scales
| it down, and then any manipulations happen on the scaled-down
| version. So you can only use it to crop, etc., small images.
| 
| (Or maybe they've fixed that by now. The version of xv for
| Solaris 8 that's I'm using is pretty old...)

No, they haven't.  xv hasn't been updated since 1994.  A few patches
have been made by others since --

   http://sonic.net/~roelofs/greg_xv.html

but this limitation you're referring to still exists.  Which is a pity
-- xv rocks.

CV is somewhat similar to xv -- http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/CV.html
-- but I'm not sure if I like it yet or not.

In any event, I've found gimp to be reasonably fast and produces very
good results, and so I wouldn't suggest dismissing it quite so
quickly.

And of course, for programatic image manipulation, ImageMagick is
king.  But there's no GUI ...

-- 
Doug McLaren, dougmc at frenzied.us
No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it! --Prof Farnsworth