and Brian, from what you say it seems to be digiKam. I wonder why it wan't work for me? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 12:36 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > Okay, here is what I used that I can't remember the name of (if it is > digiKam I do not know why my version does not work. The piece of 'paper' > had frames (representing pictures). You could drag-n-drop the pictures you > wanted to print into the frames. The pictures in the frames could be zoomed > in on and re-positioned. What I mean by this is like say you took a picture > with a significant other that you really like your image of. Time passes > and this person becomes an 'ex'. With this program you could zoom in on > your face and it would be re-sized to fit in the frame and you can also > re-position the picture so your face is centered. To tell you the truth I > also thought it was digiKam when I first began this search. > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 5:23 PM, wrote: > >> 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. >> >> >> >> ----------------- >> > 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 >> 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 >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > >