Category Archives: Image editor

Save as JPG in Gimp

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Alan German

The one thing I don’t like about the latest release of Gimp (Version 2.8) is that the program’s authors now insist on saving images as XCF files by default. Since I almost invariably use the JPG file format this is … Continue reading →

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Bringing image management under one’s thumb

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Alan German

Over the years, I have struggled with the variety of digital image tools provided with default installations of Ubuntu. I never liked image viewers that wouldn’t show me thumbnails of all the pictures in a given folder, or those that … Continue reading →

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Applications – Graphics

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Alan German

Has anybody spotted a trend over the last few postings? We appear to be going through the options in the Applications menu one-by-one and, in this post, we have now reached an item named Graphics.

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Digital Image Editing

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Alan German

Everyone has a digital camera these days, and people’s hard drives are overflowing with image files, some of which (in my case) aren’t the world’s greatest photographs. What is needed is a digital image editing program to crop the image … Continue reading →

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