gimp alternative?

rocketrabbit · n00b Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 58

gimp is too bloated and the controls are not as easy to use.

would someone please suggest me something easier and liter? i am not doing graphic rendering or anything fancy. most of the time it is just resizing, cropping, or adding some text.

frostschutz · Advocate Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 2977 Location: Germany

GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick, easy to use as soon as you learned the command line magic

Headrush · Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:59 pm Post subject:

krita from koffice seems like a Photoshop type clone like gimp, but might be a little easier interface wise.

Features and screenshots are here: http://www.koffice.org/krita/

Sparrowmelody · n00b Joined: 21 Nov 2005 Posts: 32 Location: Spain

Hmm...Krita sounds promising indeed, but it's not there yet.
I really want to see it in like one year, I am sure I won't be touching GIMP again.
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Headrush · Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:57 pm Post subject:

lmarcini · Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:58 am Post subject:

Darkael · Veteran Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 1321 Location: France

Try XnView, it's an image viewer which can do some basic graphics operations (resizing, cropping, basic filters...)

And as frostschutz said, you can also try Imagemagick. You can either use it from the command line, or combine it with an image browser that supports external commands (gqview comes to mind)

effloresce · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 109

THeres also GimpShop which just changes Gimp interface.

What bloat?

mikegpitt · Advocate Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 3224