RE: Camera

["Talbot, David K" <dkt@bgs.ac.uk>]

Yes go with The Gimp
www.gimp.org
If anything Jamie understates how good it is!
Cheers
David

-----Original Message-----
From: jbush@pucp.edu.pe [mailto:jbush@pucp.edu.pe]
Sent: 24 January 2001 02:54
To: Tom Droege
Cc: tass@listserv.wwa.com
Subject: Re: Camera



tom

all this and heaven too for $50 ????

come on, you have to be kidding

however, if you know how to use linux you can get gimp for free 
. . .  woops, wait a minute . . . gimp now has their program for free 
working under windows . . . . you are in  luck

and gimp is as good as photoshop, if not better

jamie



On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Tom Droege wrote:

> I just bought a little PC camera with the intent of using if for "Show and

> Tell" reports.  After solving the problem caused by having a dual boot 
> installation, it seems to work fine.
> 
> I need a basic image manipulation program.  I would just like to buy one
as 
> I find that bought programs last longer for me than ones that people give 
> me.  Any suggestions for a basic image manipulation program?  Say under 
> $50.  I think the last scanner I bought came with one, but I don't know
how 
> to separate the Image program from the scanner stuff.  I don't want to add

> the scanner
> 
> I want to be able to size images.
> Do color corrections.
> Change Formats
> Invert Black and White Images
> 
> The reason that you do not have an attached image of 3 Mark IVs lined up
in 
> a row is that the PC camera puts out images larger than 40K bytes (in the 
> most compressed format) and this bounces with the listserv.  What I would 
> really like to do is attach thumnail images to these reports, then you all

> could go to the web site for larger images if you are interested.  I know 
> people do not like to get big images as attachments.
> 
> Tom Droege
> 
>