> It shall be the same for the design of a lightweight, well - coded, > photo editor application.
ImageMagick maybe? > Gimp has become quite heavy to install and particularly slow on some > systems. Gimp is semi-professional image editing tool (for some areas pretty much professional) and due complexities in those areas, things can't be simpler than given. How many reasonable and heavily used editing tools we have? 2-3 maybe? > In any cases: > It cannot be worst and heavy weight than GIMP. Tried Photoshop? ;) Best.