Still loving IrfanView
I've been using IrfanView heavily on my Windows box. And yes, I love it more than ever. I've been using it to process screen grabs (I use the Print Screen key to copy the screen image, then I start the new image in IrfanView, paste it in and crop what I need).
And I love the "create custom selection" feature, which I have preconfigured with the exact pixel dimension I need for one of the images I have to cut regularly. First I size down the image to a little bigger than I want it, then I go to "create custom selection" in the menu, and a box the exact size I want it is superimposed on the image. I can then crop right there, or right-click with the mouse to move the box exactly where I want it.
Now that I have Wine on my Ubuntu 7.04 install (yes, IEs4Linux did work), I need to start trying to run IrfanView under Linux. If it works, I will be a very, very happy camper indeed.
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Steven Rosenberg aims to learn what he does not know. He writes about it here.
Steven Rosenberg aims to learn what he does not know. He writes about it here.
I'm a bit of a mug for practically trying things when people tell me they can or can't do X. (Like the time a guy said he couldn't get cyrillic russian characters and I turned my computer into cyrillic...)
I couldn't install irfanview under wine. Then I installed wine-doors and it works! A close Linux alternative is XnView.
Wine-doors -- I've heard of that, and I'm not opposed to trying anything. And I will check out XnView. With all the talk about supporting ODF vs. OOXML, nobody talks about the de facto standard that IPTC and EXIF have become for JPEG images. Since the overwhelmingly majority of professional photographers use Photoshop and embed this date in their images, programs like the GIMP and Krita really need to start dealing with it.
The KDE digital-camera interface program digiKam allows editing of a portion of the IPTC info -- not all of it -- but is not well-suited to general photo editing. It's more like iPhoto on the Mac than a true image editing program.