The thing I most often want is to crop an image.
What is the simplest interactive tool for that?
I know xv and gimp will do it, but there must be something smaller?
I agree, gimp insisting on its native format is a pain.
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Easy peasy : Shotwell…
I use it as my default image opener and manager and previewer… I can do some rudimentary stuff like Rotate (in 90 degree clockwise increments), Crop, Straighten (interactively), Red-eye, Adjust (e.g. contrast), or “Enhance” - don’t really know what that last one does - I never use it.
e.g. I can (if I’m patient) open up the first image in my camera folder, wait for a bit - then “Next Photo” for the next one in the default sort order in that folder…
I seem to remember @Abishek (or one of his colleagues) did an ItsFoss tutorial about how to use shotwell to make a slideshow of a folder of images…
One issue I do have with Shotwell - on my system (Gnome 42), because my dual monitors are sort of laid out like this
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The Crop dialog box opens UNDERNEATH the bottom screen’s status bar like thus :
- i.e. on the left is the Cancel and Crop button - but you can’t read them - need to grab it and move it down (or remember that the right button is “Crop”)
and when you close the image preview window - it will ask you if you want to save it… If I’m doing multiple edits - e.g. crop, then rotate, I usually Crop, save (and close), then roate, save (and close). Its very quick…
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Thanks, i need that.
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Despite some use in other programs[2][3][4][5][6] (see §software support), the use of XCF as a data interchange format is not recommended by the developers of GIMP, [7] since the format reflects GIMP’s internal data structures and there may be minor format changes in future versions. Instead, a collaborative effort between the developers of GIMP and Krita is underway to design a standardised raster file format called OpenRaster (modelled on the OpenDocument format) for future use in both applications, and likely in others also.
Wish they’d 'urry up!
Krita’s quite nice too - bit complex to get one’s head around, but no more so than Gimp… i.e. Krita’s way more geared to digital painting, than photo editing…
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I tried shotwell.
First shock was it wanted to crop to a square…then I discovered unconstrained. Yes it works and is easy . Thanks.
Lots if image viewers will rotate, but not crop.
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I found shotwell a lttle confusing the way it imports stuff into libraries.
So I looked around.
The simplest image viewer that I could find that would crop and rotate an image was nomacs
You can run 2 instances of nomacs and theydo not interfere.
It will step through all images in a directory.
That seems to best suit what I need
The image is a night-heron
nomacs(1) nomacs - ImageLounge nomacs(1)
NAME
nomacs - is a free, open source image viewer, which supports multiple platforms.
SYNOPSIS
nomacs [file]
DESCRIPTION
nomacs is a free, open source image viewer, which supports multiple platforms. You can
use it for viewing all common image formats including RAW and psd images. nomacs in‐
cludes image manipulation methods for adjusting brightness, contrast, saturation, hue,
gamma, exposure. It has a pseudo color function which allows creating false color images.
A unique feature of nomacs is the synchronization of multiple instances. With this fea‐
ture you can easily compare images by zooming and/or panning at the exactly same position
or even by overlaying them with different opacity. nomacs is licensed under the GNU Gen‐
eral Public License v3 and available for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and OS/2. It is free
for private and commercial use.
Nomacs is available in the Debian repo.
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I don’t use it that way at all!
I use my file manager (Nautilus) to manage files (or the shell)… The same with just about every other file type - including music files… A filesystem is ALREADY a database - I don’t need to further abstract navigation of files with some extra database between…
In Nautilus - I associate image files with Shotwell…
I don’t run Shotwell outside of this workflow… Nautilus → double-click on image file → open in Shotwell… I NEVER open Shotwell on its own… Have never tried… or not recently anyway - yeah - I seem to remember if you open it from your application launcher by itself, it tries to organise your photos… I DO NOT WANT THIS FEATURE!
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Right.
Ideally I type shotwell filename and it displays one image. xv works like that.
I will try again.
nomacs is qt based. I would prefer GTK based.
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Hello mate,
So I was playing around with an old version of Unix today…and I found version of XV that had the old splash screen we talked about last year :)…here it is
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Hi Wayne,
What Unix were you using.?
I first used xv in BSD and it was xv3.x…, cant remember exactly.
Version 2 must be pre 1990. Oh it says 1992. Do you have the source code?
Regards
Neville.
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Oh, this was an obscure version of Unix, called Sinix, from Siemens…we’re talking 1994/95 …an offshot from Xenix but with X11 support. The image I found runs under 86Dos emulator…and it’s pretty cool, support Motif…
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I once used SCO Xenix on a 286. No X windows there, but it did have some primitive networking.
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Indeed, no joy on the xv 2.21 source code…woe is me
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Download the pdf file… it is 1992
Unfortunately no source archive.
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