RJT>> Once you get linux going,  you'll also have to play a little with
RJT>> "the gimp",  that's one hell of a powerful program, 
and I haven't
RJT>> even begun to explore all of its capabilities,  though I am at
RJT>> this point getting some useful work done with it,  mostly cropping
RJT>> images that have absurd amounts of graphic "border" around them
RJT>> featuring names of companies that no longer exist,  bbs numbers
RJT>> that haven't existed for a number of years, and similar stuff.

 RJT> There's also an article about using that program in the
 RJT> current issue of Linux Journal about using it to remove
 RJT> "red-eye" from scanned photographs...

yup, and it works too... pretty much, anyway... the technique can also be
adapted for other packages... i played with Paintshop Pro on the same
picture i did on the GIMP and had somewhat different but comparable
results...

FWIW: the red i was removing was in the eyes of a siamese cat who's eyes
glow red in broad daylight from all viewing angles...

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