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 <mutanttur...@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 > <patrick295...@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' >