The default crop box is square (perfect for Instagram, I suppose) but I always just switch it to Unconstrained, then click and drag corners of the crop box to get it just so for my photo: For this task, a click on Crop in Shotwell Viewer and a box appears: Unquestionably useful for cleaning up your photos. Of particular importance is the row of tools along the bottom! You can see it’s Rotate, Crop, Straighten, Red-eye, Adjust and Enhance. That’s the app! A click to launch it and I’m again looking at that Honda photo, but in this program rather than in Image Viewer: The system will then generate a list of installed programs that are known to be able to handle this particular image format. Lots of choices and options, but you want to choose “ Open with Other Application“, as highlighted. Easiest way to do that is to right-click on the image file on the Linux desktop. Useful for viewing image files, but there are really no tools or capabilities for modifying the image in even the most basic ways. Double clicking on the file icon from the Ubuntu desktop and it opens up in the Linux Image Viewer: To start, here’s a photo of a 2020 Honda CR-V that I want to crop down just a bit.
#Ubuntu image editor install
For now, make sure you have it on your computer – or install it as needed – and then let’s look at how easy it makes cropping your photo images without ever leaving the Linux universe…
It’s hard to say why Shotwell isn’t the default app for opening up image files, actually, but that’s a separate discussion, I suppose.
#Ubuntu image editor archive
Don’t have that on your system? Grab a copy from the GNOME archive site: Shotwell. There are certainly some powerful graphics and photo editors for the Linux platform but even without adding any third party software to your system, you can use the adequately powered Shotwell image viewer to do basic editing tasks too. But you’re right, copying photos to your PC so you can do some rudimentary editing like a crop and then moving them back to your Ubuntu Linux system might just qualify as more work than it’s worth. There’s much to be said for a solution that involves doing what you know rather than learning yet another new tool, application or program.
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