[ale] Image programs for Linux?

[Jay Loden]

Update: I got irfanview running under Crossover Office with absolutely no 
problems, however, I prefer to use native linux apps whenever possible, but 
as a worst case scenario, at least this works. 

-Jay


On Wednesday 17 November 2004 11:33 pm, Jay Loden wrote:
> I'm a hardcore Linux user, won't be going back to using Windows ever, if I
> can help it, but there is ONE thing that I just haven't found for Linux
> that I had on Windows, and that's Irfanview.
>
> Irfanview, for those who don't know it, is a small, fast image editor and
> viewer for Windows.  It's tiny, and fast, yet it lets you do a whole host
> of image editing, like resizing, renaming, slideshow creation, more than I
> can even list.  Does anyone out there know of anything similar for Linux?
>
> Kuickshow at least is a fast image viewer, and lets you do an extremely
> limited number of things (convert an image to a new format, for example)
> but I need something that at least lets me do simple resize, rotate, crop,
> and some ehancements and preferably some filters.  (irfanview has a small
> set of nice filters like greyscale and whatnot, some image sharpeners, and
> so forth).
>
> Before someone says it, I know the GIMP can do a lot of these things, BUT,
> the GIMP is a lot heavier than what I want, and not the most convenient
> tool for the job.  It's like opening Photoshop just to resize your digital
> photos - overkill.
>
> -Jay
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