Re: Good tool for light photo editing?

[Martin Dickopp <martin-deb@zero-based.org>]

stan <stanb@panix.com> writes:

> I just got my first set of pictures on CD's (vacation pics), and I wan't to
> put them up on my web server.
>
> What's a good tool to do some really lightweight editeing on them with?
> Mostly I just need to rotate the vertical ones, but I _might_ do just a
> little cropping on some few.

If the pictures are in JPEG format, try "jpegtran". Unlike some of the
tools suggested so far (Gimp, ImageMagick), "jpegtran" can rotate (by
integer multiples of 90 degrees) and crop JPEGs without loss of quality.

Martin


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