WOW! nice recommendations guys. I been using abc (advanced batch converter) under wine to do my picture resizing with lanczos3. When I found that gimp uses lanczos3 for resizing, I found this to be superior than adobe photoshop. The nautilus resize function is awsome as well while I can do resize in multible images with ctrl and selecting, I was not able to tell it what part of the picture to resize too. I'll look at imagemagic.
Thanks!
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