RE: Camera

["Albertson, Chris" <CAlbertson@primeadvantage.com>]

Tom,

It's caaled "The Gimp".  It runs under both MS Windows and 
Linux/UNIX.
It is about as full featured as can be and is free.  People
say that if you use Photoshop, Gimp will seem familiar.

http://www.gimp.org/

The fact that the same program runs under both
Linux and Windows may be a plus if you switch back and forth
between using the two OSes.  

You can print out the very thick color manual or you can buy
a "gimp book" at Amazon.  I think there are at least two books
on Gimp.  The above site is good has all the.



Info   BTW

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Droege [mailto:tdroege@veriomail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 6:10 PM
> To: tass@listserv.wwa.com
> Subject: Camera
> 
> 
> 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
> 
>