I'm looking for a simple and fast image editor and was wondering if any one had any recommendations.
Criteria:
- I'd prefer one that was free, open source is not obligatory, but always nice. Free must include commercial use.
- It needs to be able to do a couple of very basic editing operations:
- Select & Crop
- Paste as New Image
- Save as JPG/PNG (either or preferably both)
- It must run both on Ubuntu and Windows (I have a strong preference for using applications where I don't have to think about which operating system I'm using!)
- It must be fast; the main usage of this will be:
- Load program
- Paste as New Image
- Crop
- Save
- Quit
The ones I've looked at so far include:
- The GIMP: This is awesome for a lot of the more complex editing that I do, but is just too slow to load (especially on Windows) for the simple paste/crop/save jobs. I can start MS paint (ick) in about second, GIMP takes 15 seconds on a very good day; often longer.
- Paint.net: looks nice, but the Ubuntu port doesn't seem to be very good yet.
- Pinta: looks promising and it might be just what I want when it gets to version 1, but at the moment it refuses to start on my Windows installation.
- XnView: not free for commercial use.
Can anyone suggest anything that might be suitable?
Ubuntu and Linux
? Isn't Ubuntu linux already?