RE: Camera

[<jbush@pucp.edu.pe>]

there are two good books for the gimp:

	the gimp for linux and unix: phyllis davis, peachpit press, 2000

	gimp pocket reference: sven neumann, o'reilly, 2000

excellent pubs and makes life easy

jamie



On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Talbot, David K wrote:

> 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
> > 
> > 
> 
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