[NTLUG:Discuss] Equiv to PhotoShop,etc (was: VMWare alt.)

[David D. Scribner]

Stuart Johnston [sjohnston at haisolutions.com] wrote:
> Steve Baker wrote:
> >If you do red-eye removal on such a regular basis that these extra
> >mouse clicks are a problem - then you can easily make a script...however,
> >if you don't do it 20 times a day - then that kind of chrome just clutters
> >up the menu's for serious users who'd want more than the canned effect
> >that Photoshop offers.
> >
> >(Having said that - I bet there's a GIMP plugin to do that somewhere).
> 
> I don't feel like working today so I did a little googling:
> 
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6567
> http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/fmg-members/geoff/digicam/
> 
> CompuPic obviously isn't the Gimp but it apparently has a red-eye 
> removal tool and is available for Linux:
> http://www.photodex.com/products/compupic/unix/index.html

CompuPic is a nice little app. I do my graphics work in GIMP and have
mainly used CompuPic for display. It's got some nice features like batch
conversions and decoding uuencoded or base64 files, creating a picture
index of a directory of files, etc., but I've never used it much for
actual editing of graphics.

CompuPic does support a decent number of file formats, but a big
drawback (IMHO) is that it looks like development might have grown a
little stale. The latest release is 5.1.1063, which was released in July
2000. It's too bad, as it's got some very decent qualities and seems
pretty stable for the most part (it's only crashed a few times on me,
usually by "vanishing"), and is an app that many crossing over from a
Windows environment would feel comfortable with.

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