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Date:	Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:05:47 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Image editing

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Larry Tawa wrote:

> Since I can now access my digital photos via eCS 1.1/USB/compact flash
> card, the time to plan is now.

Lucky you. I've never seen USB working in my eCS partitions. I have some
idea of the troubleshooting path to follow, but there are more urgent
priorities at the moment.

> I attended two amateur digital classes by Nikon; one option for image
> editing is Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 which of course is Windows.
>
> Given the above, what would you recommend for eCS.

Once you have access to the image files under eCS, and are ready to do some
digital editing, the range of choices comes down about like this:

The one native program still extant and under development is PMView. (Tony
has written a few columns about it.) This is fine for light duty editing --
Crop, Rotate, Convert image formats, Re-size, Change the relative color
balance, Print the shot -- and may be all that most users need, most of the
time. I know it has been for me, so far. (I have a license for it on both
platforms.)

There are a few much more powerbul but defunct image editing programs that
may work for you, Embellish and True Spectra Photo Graphics to name two.
Obviously, there won't be any support for them, unless you can find some
users still hanging in there in the newsgroups. I have these, but haven't
really used them. One, or possibly both (?), were released to the OS/2
community as freeware. Let me know if you want the install archives. One of
those programs actually introduced layers (I think) before PhotoShop offered
the feature.

There is GIMP, ported over from the 'Nix world, which is supposed to be a
heavyweight contender a la full PhotoShop. I've never seen it myself.
Probably requires an XFREE86 setup to run it, and the interface / ease-of-use
is unlikely to rival that of PhotoShop. But I really wouldn't know.

HTH.

Jordan

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