Re: [dev] portable photoshop-like lite application based on C?

From: patrick295767 patrick295767 <patrick295767_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 18:04:33 +0100

I actually need a portable editor to do collage between various layers.
That's my regular photo editing activity.

You can always add basic drawing such as in irfanview (press F12), easily.

2013/12/2 Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey_AT_gmail.com>:
> You can do quite advanced image manipulation with something like ImageMagick.
>
> I actually like prog21.dagum's ideas [0] (no idea who he is), a purely
> functional, non destructive editing program
>
> Here would be my idea: A scripting window for commands, a graphics
> window which shows the image buffer, and also allows recording of
> mouse actions (as to script functions like select)
>
>
> [0] http://prog21.dadgum.com/180.html
>
> On 2 December 2013 11:54, patrick295767 patrick295767
> <patrick295767_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Since a long time I have been using gimp on Windows and Linux.
>>
>> Gimp on Linux is rather ok, but on Linux, the portable version and the
>> 2.8.10 are very slow, which limits drastically the use.
>>
>> On an usb installation, gimp might be quite slow, unfortunately.
>>
>> Well, in comparison, dwm is a great achievement. Few/limited number of
>> lines of code which give one of the best wm.
>>
>> It shall be the same for the design of a lightweight, well - coded,
>> photo editor application. Gimp has become quite heavy to install and
>> particularly slow on some systems.
>>
>> I still have no idea in which direction it might go, i.e. how it may looking.
>> What would be important, but still keeping lite, is to have a support
>> for moving several layers (images,...) on the top of each.
>>
>> In any cases:
>> It cannot be worst and heavy weight than GIMP.
>>
>> You need fortran, .net, perl, ruby, python... for a single application? ;) :)
>>
>> With C or alternatively C++, we've got all we need.
>>
>> I wish you a good day/evening.
>> Pat'
>
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