printing photos

[joe at actionline.com]

I haven't been following this discussion, so my suggestion may be
off-the-mark; but for what it may be worth, the tool that I have found to
be the easiest to use and the most versatile and helpful to work with
photos is Paint Shop Pro ... and PSP it runs perfectly on my Linux Mint
system under wine.

PSP is remarkably easy to use to edit, crop, resize, photo-shop, extract
elements, create layers, zoom in and out, make composites, overprint
text, drop shadow, brighten, sharpen, increase contrast, apply filters,
create both generic and artistic borders, create buttons, and hundreds
more functions.

Here is a link to a very small example of a composite that I made of a
family portrait that we recently had taken at a photo studio in Seattle
with a plain white background and I extracted the family image and
superimposed it over a photo of the Seattle area to make a 24" x 30"
canvas print at Costco.

http://www.upquick.com/temp/pspexample.jpg

About 10 minutes of tinkering to get the desired results.



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> actually I mean like new borders and the areas out of the new border
> being the buffer. and then the zoom would zoom in or out with the borders
> remaining the same but the picture would increase in size with the out
> -of-bounds area being the buffer for the repositioning. :-)~MIKE~(-:

> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> yeah.... but how do you resize the photos to an exact size? I can do it
>> manually  but.... ? In addition to that you can't zoom in and
>> reposition with the zoomed-out areas being the buffer. :-)~MIKE~(-:

>> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Brian Cluff wrote:
>>> Actually it sounds like the other one is what you really want.
>>> It allows you to zoom in, reposition ,rotate, crop, charge
>>> borders and backgrounds, etc, etc... --Brian Cluff