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A basic overview of some popular image software tools and photo editing software in Linux - With a focus on apt based distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Mint. Tools for console work as well as work in the graphical X environment are included. Article based on distributions circa 4.0 kernel and higher.

ImageMagick

convert

Description: Example:

mogrify

Description: Example:

mogrify -resize 1024x 2018*.jpg

Phatch

Phatch and imagemagick basically have the same purpose, but have a different user experience. Imagemagick is command-line based and Phatch has a Graphical User Interface (GUI). As such Phatch is much more simple to use and also makes it more easy to create complex actions and handle subdirectories. As Phatch is developed with the Python Image Library.

Gimp

Gimp is a full featured graphic / image / photo editing software set of programs and tools similar in use or functionality to Adobe Photoshop. GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is extensive enough that its own wiki page can be devoted to the software tools.

Gimp / GIMP (technically all upper case) will provide for you nearly all of the features and tools available in the expensive commercial software package Adobe Photoshop with the exception that GIMP is absolutely free. Also, unlike Adobe Photoshop, GIMP is cross-platform and open source. You can run GIMP under Linux, Windows, and MacOS. Many Linux distributions include GIMP as a part of their desktop operating systems, including Fedora and Debian.

Tools used to perform image editing can be accessed via the toolbox, through menus and dialogue windows. They include filters and brushes, as well as transformation, selection, layer and masking tools.