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Offline pags

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Re: whereis ImageMagick executable? SOLVED!
« Reply #15 on: September 24, 2012, 10:58:02 AM »
Just looked at the description of calligra-krita: "Krita is a creative sketching and painting application." I have never been able to do any kind of sketch or hand-drawn anything on the computer, and I really
don't want to anyway.  All I need to do is clean up some photographs a little--crop, increase contrast or density, that sort of thing. (I do use AutoCAD, but that's not sketching  or painting!)  Thanks anyway.  --doug

Just because Krita (or Gimp, or tuxpaint, even  :o), can allow "drawing" and "painting" doesn't mean they are limited to this, or that you have to use them exclusively for this.  They are very good for interactive manipulation (cropping, skewing, gamma adjustment, levels/curves adjustment, etc.)  Some (like Gimp) can even be "scripted" for a more batch-like operation, if you have repetitive processes to apply.

It wouldn't hurt to do a little research and play with them a bit...they may well be what you're looking for (without the arcane aspect of a tool like Imagemagick)

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I like Imagemagick, but that doesn't mean it's good for everything!

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Re: whereis ImageMagick executable? SOLVED!
« Reply #16 on: September 24, 2012, 11:43:19 AM »
A little reluctant to suggest this since at one time it did not pull in all the dependencies.

fotoxx - in the repo
from the dependency listing it looks like it has been sorted but the GTK+3.0 package might need separate installation.

But it works very well and most of the tweaking functions are sliders or click-on-a-button

looks like this in action: http://i.imgur.com/dqqyF.jpg

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Re: whereis ImageMagick executable? SOLVED!
« Reply #17 on: September 24, 2012, 12:08:56 PM »
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All I need to do is clean up some photographs a little--crop, increase contrast or density, that sort of thing.

Krita, amongst other should be suitable for that purpose.

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Re: whereis ImageMagick executable? SOLVED!
« Reply #18 on: September 24, 2012, 02:00:40 PM »
Fotoxx was loaded, but I don't think I looked at it before.  I loaded Krita, and it will bring up a photo, but it still doesn't look like a photo editor.
Anyway, I've got enough photo-editors to play with for a while, now.  Thanx, all,
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