Chapter 7
Editing Photos on the Raspberry Pi with GIMP
IN THIS CHAPTER
Installing GIMP
Understanding the GIMP screen layout
Resizing, cropping, rotating, and flipping your photos
Adjusting the colors and fixing imperfections
Converting images between different formats
We live in probably the best-documented era in our history. Not only do we write about our daily lives in blogs and on social media, but many people also carry cameras everywhere they go, built into their phones or other electronic devices. More serious photographers might have dedicated digital cameras. Whatever you use, and whatever you do with your day, photography is a great way to record your life and express yourself creatively.
The Raspberry Pi can play a part in this activity, enabling you to edit photos to improve their composition and quality. Although early Raspberry Pi models struggled with the large files generated by digital cameras, you can easily edit photos using current or recent models. We had no ...
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