Chapter 10. Image Manipulation
Secrets in This Chapter
Eye of GNOME Image Viewer
GIMP Image Editor
F-Spot Photo Manager
In this visual world, handling images is almost a daily task. From working with images exported from digital cameras to modifying graphics for a new web site, software for creating and manipulating images is vital to any desktop environment. Ubuntu provides an excellent set of software packages for creating and handling images. This chapter dives into those three packages. The Eye of GNOME Image Viewer is a behind-the-scenes package that most people don't think about, at least not until they double-click on an image file. The second package covered is GIMP, which stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP application is a full-featured image-editing package. Finally, the chapter walks through the features of the F-Spot Photo Manager, which is more than just a simple way to export images from your digital camera.
Eye of GNOME Image Viewer
The Eye of GNOME Image Viewer is a standard package for the GNOME desktop. Its main duty is to display image files stored in folders and on removable media such as CDs and USB Memory Sticks.
This section walks through how to use the Image Viewer software while you're perusing your image files.
Using the Image Viewer
The Image Viewer software is unique in that you usually don't start it by itself. There's no entry for it in the default Ubuntu Applications menu. Instead, it's usually started by some other application, such as Nautilus, ...
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