Free Graphics Editing on a Chromebook -- How?
May I please ask the Chromebook crowd here what's a good, simple, free solution for graphics editing on their Chromebooks?
For doing stuff like put text on top of an image, or change a logo.
As an example, imagine a png logo that's 400 x 160 pixels showing a company name on a uniformly colored background. Suppose I want to resize to 300 x 300. That might require adding additional uniformly colored background top and bottom to get to 400 x 400 and then reducing the size from 400 x 400 to 300 x 300.
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Just use a SaaS tool in the browser like Crello/Vistaprint (https://crello.com) or Canva (https://canva.com)
Glorify ( https://www.glorify.com/ ) is another cool tool 
They have decent free plans. At least that's what I do, when I want to edit images on Chromebook. Surely, there are some Android apps in the Playstore, too. I'd prefer working in the browser, though.
There's also a free (Photoshop like) editing tool online for more advanced purposes: https://www.photopea.com/
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Anybody wanna start a business so we can share an Adobe account? Seems to be about $80/month.
Haven't read Adobe's terms yet. Won't do it unless it's okay with them.
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Anybody use and like https://boxy-svg.com/ ?
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Here's a screenshot of boxy-svg's page seen through Chrome's High Contrast accessibility app with the Inverted Color setting. Somehow, I really like the look of the app with the tool icons around the outside. I haven't tried it yet. But maybe, if the app is designed so well from a UI/UX point-of-view, maybe it might work well too. . . .
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Try gravit designer for vector graphics
Pixlr is alright for simple raster graphics
I am very happy with Affinity Designer/Photo. You should give it a try
It's a one-time purchase only with updates for lifetime.
https://affinity.serif.com/
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No chance of installing GIMP on a Chromebook?
"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
If Gimp runs on Linux it should be easily do-able with the Linux Beta environment
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Would Krita be an option? They seem to have a beta/early access version on the Google Play Store.
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https://gimp-portable.com/gimp-for-chromebook-installation-guide/
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My question ("No chance ...?") was partly rhetorical, though I imagined that GIMP would require the Linux subsystem to be activated.
I also suspect that when @Not_Oles said "simple", he wasn't thinking of GIMP. (But "good" and "free" would apply.)
"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
The question is:
" will GIMP run with two 128-MB swap partitions"
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Hehehe! But I was thinking about GIMP! That's why I said "simple"! 😁
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Well, no need for a random tutorial - it is as simple as "apt install gimp". ;P
Just tried on my "Lenovo IdeaPad Duet" and it works right out of the box.
Go GIMP -- don't settle for anything less
"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)
Hmm. I oughta at least try GIMP. Thanks @angstrom!
Remember that guy, years ago, who changed the GIMP menus to mirror Adobe's? His project died, somebody took over his site after he let it go? More or less might have made all the Adobe tutorials work with GIMP?
How come nobody suggested ImageMagick? 😂
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For those who learn better via “watch and learn”
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC2SJlhA8U6b8sU8Xxd0wtSA
Happy Rabbit holing with “Himp” ( as my S American friends used to call)
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ps: longer list of "Graphic design apps for linux" for those interested.
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ImageMagick is an amazing command-line tool that can do all kinds of conversions, but I understood that you needed a GUI editing tool ("That might require adding additional uniformly colored background top and bottom to get to 400 x 400 [...]"). But on second thought, you may be able to do this with the ImageMagick command
composite( https://imagemagick.org/script/composite.php ), but this would depend on the details.(This said, it never hurts to have GIMP around.
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"A single swap file or partition may be up to 128 MB in size. [...] [I]f you need 256 MB of swap, you can create two 128-MB swap partitions." (M. Welsh & L. Kaufman, Running Linux, 2e, 1996, p. 49)