Sometimes, you may need to adjust or touch-up a photo to make it look better or to remove some flaw. F-Spot includes a few basic tools for doing this. To access these tools, press the button and then click on one of the tools at the bottom of the screen.
The GIMP Image Editor is much more advanced. It is installed in Ubuntu by default, and can be started by choosing → → .
The GIMP has many professional-level features. It includes tools for selections, drawing, creating paths, masks, filters, effects, and more.
You may find that you have some photos which are the wrong way up. It is easy to rotate photos so that they're the right way up again.
The Image Viewer, F-Spot Photo Manager and the GIMP Image Editor are all capable of rotating photos.
You can resize photos which are too big. If you have a photo which has a large file size, resizing it will also reduce the file size.
The GIMP Image Editor supports several methods of resizing photos. We will concentrate on the simplest method.
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Open the photo you want to resize in the GIMP Image Editor
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Press →
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Adjust the Width or Height as appropriate. The image will be kept to scale.
If you want to adjust the width and height independently, press the link button which connects the Width and Height boxes, so that it looks like a broken link.
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Under Quality, change the Interpolation to Cubic (Best). This will give you the best quality resized image
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Press Scale to resize the photo
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Press → and choose a new filename for the photo
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Press Save to save the resized photo
