[geeks] Quick Photo Manipulation Program

[Robert Brooke Gravitt]

Acorn?

On Feb 24, 2008, at 8:46 PM, Joshua Boyd wrote:

> Does any one have a suggestion for a program that would excel at  
> opening photos and cropping, scaling, and rotating them on OSX?   
> Preferably a gui program, not cli.  And it needs to be fairly fast,  
> and not try to take over managing my photos.  Free is fairly highly  
> prefered.
>
> A few answers that I don't consider acceptable are:
> Photoshop (full or elements)
> PaintShop Pro
> Gimp
> iPhoto
>
> Photoshop and Gimp aren't fast enough (I don't want to wait several  
> minutes just to rotate/scale/crop), I don't want PSP, and iPhoto  
> insists on loading everything into it's library.
>
> I've spent a little time looking, but I can't seem to find anything  
> that is clearly right.  I suppose I could try the demo of  
> pixelmator, but is seems a shame to spend $60 for such a simple task.
>
> I do have a core image card, although hopefully such wouldn't really  
> be required.
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