Gimp too complicated; Pinta/GnuPaint/etc. too simple

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I've been looking at a few paint programs, trying to find one that I can use for simple office tasks.

Gimp is nice when I need layers or cropping, but apart from that it is a total overkill. I know Gimp is aimed at Photoshop users and it is very powerful - but for simple desktop work it's too complicated.

Simple alternatives like Gnu Paint or Pinta are on the other extreme of the scale; too simple. They seem to be aimed at kids, not office use.

What tool can I use for light office/desktop work?

update: Features would be things like rectangular selections, cropping, save-as in different formats, scale, flip, rotate, paste from clipboard into new/existing image...

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 14 '12 at 21:12

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There is krita from KDE, that might be worth a try.

answered May 14 '12 at 21:12

LiveWireBT

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 11 '17 at 19:03

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Try gThumb : It is lightweight, you can browse files and do simple edits to images as well as save them as tif, tga, png or jpg. It even has the possibility to edit a batch of images in one run! (full feature list)

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edited Mar 11 '17 at 19:03

Community

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answered May 14 '12 at 19:34

Jakob

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 14 '12 at 20:39

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You can try gThumb, Shotwell, Picasa, or really any of the photo managers available for Linux.

answered May 14 '12 at 20:39

xjonquilx

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score -1 · Answer 4 · edited Feb 13 '14 at 12:44

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XnView does it all, pastes clipboard as new, batch etc.

edited Feb 13 '14 at 12:44

Luís de Sousa

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answered Feb 13 '14 at 11:48

Vlkoff

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Gimp too complicated; Pinta/GnuPaint/etc. too simple

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