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Offline mickmack1942

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Regarding Gimp and Pinta.
« on: Sunday 03 August 25 10:23 BST (UK) »

   Has any one found a poss better tool than Gimp or Pinta to take images from
   parish records etc. 
 
     





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Re: Regarding Gimp and Pinta.
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 03 August 25 10:45 BST (UK) »
Never heard of either!
I just use the camera on my phone.
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Re: Regarding Gimp and Pinta.
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 03 August 25 12:03 BST (UK) »



Mr Google says :-  Pinta has more features than Microsoft Paint. Compared with open-source image editor GIMP, Pinta is simpler and has fewer features. Pinta. Pinta running on ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinta_(software)

General Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP for short.
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Re: Regarding Gimp and Pinta.
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 03 August 25 12:22 BST (UK) »

    Ok thanks, keep looking and searching you never know.
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Re: Regarding Gimp and Pinta.
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 03 August 25 12:47 BST (UK) »
Personally, I use Irfanview.
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Re: Regarding Gimp and Pinta.
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 03 August 25 14:22 BST (UK) »
Never heard of either!
I just use the camera on my phone.

Likewise, camera phones give excellent images. Easy to download images to your laptop / PC etc.

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Re: Regarding Gimp and Pinta.
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 03 August 25 15:36 BST (UK) »

   Might try the phone  way seems quiet good when as one does transfer photos
   to ones computer for keep sake,  Irfanview that's a new one on me nothing ventured
   etc thanks all ...
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Re: Regarding Gimp and Pinta.
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 03 August 25 22:30 BST (UK) »
Just out of interest, if you are running Windows, what about the included Snip unless you want to edit them?
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