March 3, 2023

My notes on Shotwell

Sometimes I just want to quickly crop an image on linux. Shotwell is perfect and easy. I hope they don't add features are ruin it.

I used to use the Gimp, but it is entirely unintuitive and overly complicated. I hate the GIMP. It promises so much, but delivers so little.

I type "shotwell xyz.png" on the command line and there is a crop button at the bottom of the screen. Using it is intuitive, then use "save" to save the cropped file in place of the original and you are done.

Here is the link that first led me to it:


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