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 <
bmike1@gmail.com> 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, <joe@actionline.com> 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 <bmike1@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
>>
>>
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