[libreoffice-users] Re: GIMP - was: CNET is claiming the best free MSO alternative is not LO

On 6/10/13 6:45 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> On 06/09/2013 01:33 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
> > On 6/9/13 10:54 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> > >
> <snip>
> > > Well, you need both pixel and vector based graphics packages.  Yes they
> > > are like comparing apples and oranges, but both are needed in your list
> > > of graphic editing packages, along with some people needing CAD and
> > > Visio/Dia diagramming packages.  I also would include a good photo
> > > stitching package.  I use ICE on Windows [free from Microsoft], but I
> > > have not looked into one for Ubuntu.
> >
> > Agreed on all points.  Although I'd say a good bitmap editor would do
> > the stitching just fine if you choose to take time to do it.  I used
> > to do that with scans from a hand scanner in my Atari computing days.
> <snip>
>
> I use to try to manually stitch photos together manually, but it was a
> very "painful" process.  That is why I needed to find a good, and free,
> package to do it for me.
>
> Now, for stitching photos together, I tend to have 5 to 20 of them
> involved in the process.  I tend to make large format panoramas or even
> 360 degree photos of some landscape.  I will be doing a photo project of
> making a panorama of all the sides of a building as one photo.  These
> types of photo stitching projects takes less than a minute or two with a
> stitching package.

LOL   I didn't say it was easy!   Stitching packages were all but 
unavailable in those days.


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Ken

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