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Jay LaCroix
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Jay LaCroix

Jeremy "Jay" LaCroix is a technologist and open-source enthusiast, specializing in Linux. He has a net field experience of 20 years across different firms as a Solutions Architect and holds a master's degree in Information Systems Technology Management from Capella University. In addition, Jay also has an active Linux-focused YouTube channel with over 250K followers and over 20M views, available at LearnLinuxTV, where he posts instructional tutorial videos and other Linux-related content. He has also written Linux Mint Essentials and Mastering Linux Network Administration, published by Packt Publishing.
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Editing photos with GIMP


The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is another graphics application included in Mint and is able to handle the advanced needs of image editing. GIMP is very much comparable to Adobe Photoshop and is primarily geared toward intermediate to advanced graphic designers or photographers. However, even its most basic features are useful for very common photography tasks. The following screenshot shows how a photo is edited in GIMP:

One example of editing a photo is cropping it. This is something even a photography novice will need to do from time to time. After you've opened a photo in GIMP by clicking on File and then on Open, you'll find the cropping tool under the Tools menu, under Transform Tools. After you crop your photo, you can save your changes. However, what you may think of as saving a file in any other program is known as exporting a file in GIMP. If you want to overwrite the same file, you'll find an Overwrite option in the file menu. However, if you...

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Published in: May 2014Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781782168157

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Jay LaCroix

Jeremy "Jay" LaCroix is a technologist and open-source enthusiast, specializing in Linux. He has a net field experience of 20 years across different firms as a Solutions Architect and holds a master's degree in Information Systems Technology Management from Capella University. In addition, Jay also has an active Linux-focused YouTube channel with over 250K followers and over 20M views, available at LearnLinuxTV, where he posts instructional tutorial videos and other Linux-related content. He has also written Linux Mint Essentials and Mastering Linux Network Administration, published by Packt Publishing.
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