Re: Quick cropping with GIMP, like in XV

spcecdt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (John DuBois) wrote:
>In article <YJCdnb2xOe0Ft93VnZ2dnUVZ_gGdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>Ignoramus23731  <ignoramus23731@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>I use XV for image editing, since 90% of time all I need to do is
>>quick crop and resize. XV has nice keyboard shortcuts.
....

>Having used xv for 15 years now, I had about the same feeling about
simple
>image editing in xv vs. the gimp.  After I started using the gimp, for
some
>time I continued to do my cropping in xv and then used the gimp only for
those
>images that required more sophisticated processing.  I've gradually been
won
>over by the nicer feel of the gimp's crop selection, and the convenience
of
>doing it all with one tool, particularly after finding its cropping
shortcuts.
>
>The last im****tant xv characteristic that I haven't yet found a way to
emulate
>is the behavior of only opening one command-line-specified file at a
time, and
>easily (from the keyboard) going on to the next image when I'm done with
the
>current one.  Is there a way of making the gimp behave this way?  That is
- I
>want to specify the files to operate on on the command line, and I do
*not*
>want them all opened initially; I may be perusing, and selectively
editing,
>several hundred images in one round (all selected according to some
criteria on
>the command line).  In xv, it's a matter of "hit space to open the next
image
>in place of the current one"; the closer to that I can get, the better...

I use XV all the time...  as a *viewer*.  It's nice
because it will allow a few adjustments here and there,
etc etc., and provides a list as described, without
opening every single image.  But there is no way that I
will use it as an editor.

Incidentally, there are some useful patches to XV.  One
allows it to view Nikon's NEF files, which I don't find
to be actually useful, but one other patch really is a
gem.  If clicking on the right mouse button gets you a
control panel that has a "Delete" button, rather than
"Reject", you have the original XV.  It can be a pain
patching it and I don't know if binaries are available
for any given platform, but it is well worth finding a
patched version.

The "Delete" does exactly that, and the file is gone. A
useful, but limited function.

The "Reject" option creates a directory named "rejected"
and puts the selected file into that directory.  In the
end, if all was right, "rm -rf rejected" will delete
them all if that is what is desired.  But at any point
it is also possible to go back and look at what's in the
rejected directory and revive it.  It's just very nice,
and of course one doesn't actually need to delete
"rejected" files!  It's possible to do any kind of a
bipolar sort, tossing files into the rejected directory
and then later renaming it to something like "flowers"
or "selected_for_more_editing".

Another useful way to use XV is with a shell function or
alias like this:  alias xvv='xv -fixed -geom 1024'

The command xvv will adjust the size of any image to a
maximum of 1024x1024.  Essentially it means that even
small images will be shown full screen.

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Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson>
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