Does anyone use GIMP for photo editing and manipulation? Has it become a "photographer's program" yet, or is it still clunky and freetarded?
>>4480655You can’t edit RAW files.
i use gimp for basic edits: resize and crop, tone curve, minor color adjustments
Once you've used Photoshop for a while, you become absolutely disgusted by shit like gimp.
My schizo headcanon is that Adobe is involved in the development and work on Gimp and keep it as bad as it is so Photoshop remains the most attractive offer despite the price.There is no excuse for Gimp's UI to be this dogshit in the year of the lord two thousand and twenty six minus two months.
>>4480667Can't lie anything else than camera raw filter feels like hell to use + you can, well, photoshop it afterwards.
>>4480655GIMP only comes out to play if I'm doing creative editing like composite shots or AHDR. You need a TIFF at a minimum or a JPEG so you still need something in between to dev your RAW.I will comment that the only reason I use GIMP is because Adobe is a fucking shitheel of a company and if there was any other paid solution that worked half as well I'd be using that instead of this freeware.
>>4480655The new Gimp is actually good now, with live modifiers and layer properties.Affinity also just became free.That said, none of the mentioned software (including Photoshop) handles RAW files well at all.For that you need Lightroom, Darktable, CaptureOne, RawTherapee, Artherapee or NX Studio (if you have a Nikon).
Anything usable that works on linux? Sadly at the moment I have to fire up windows vm to do any kind photo editing other crop or resize.
>>4480687Digikam is good for basic edits and can do some GIMP stuff by virtue of the GMIC plugin being native to it. I use it in my workflow because I rarely need to do major edits, but its NR is ass so I start with DPP4 to convert to a TIFF, something you can't do on linux because it has no linux version. If you aren't dual booting or want to avoid vms you could use Darktable to NR then export as a TIFF (pretty sure there's integration between the two software) but at that point just use Darktable.
>>4480687Darktable and Rawtherapee are great for what they are.
>>4480657UFraw can export to gimp.
>>4480655Does sn0y, lolympus ect. have anything like NX studio or Canons DPP? I use GIMP for shit like making memes unironically, never found it useful for photos. For photos I just use DPP, it handles RAWs well and you can crop and export in whatever size. I don't know why you'd need another program for that simplest of shit.
>>4480655Basic adjustments in DPP 4 (cause only cameras with raw I have are Canon). But yes, I do use Gimp for everything else.
>>4481336Lolympus has OM Workspace (literal garbage), and idk if sn*y has anything. Remember, it's an engineer's device not a camera so you're expected to work it out yourself.
>>4481336https://creatorscloud.sony.net/catalog/en-gb/ie-desktop/index.html?cid=bnr-1
>>4480655Still clunky and freetarded, but fits my needs along with DxO Photolab.
>>4480686>That said, none of the mentioned software (including Photoshop) handles RAW files well at alIsn't photoshop using the same module as lightroom though (camera raw)?I'm also surprised that we don't have an Affinity thread now that is free. I've downloaded it but haven't used it much
>>4480655what happens to ur capacity
If only Capture One worked on linux. If only
>>4485340Who cares? Use Darktable, it's arguably better albeit slightly less user friendly to the beginner. I literally switched from C1 to DT because windows sickens me, and there was appx 1 month learning curve but I honestly prefer DT at this point
I like GIMP it doesn't shit up your computer with sidecar files or updaters running in the background. I find because it's "destructive" it actually runs faster; as I scroll around a high-res image it's not falling over itself trying to render 50 layers of edits in the resolution I've just zoomed to; essentially a bitmap of the whole image is sitting in your ram ready to go (or at least that's what I assume, i'm not a /g/tard).Make a duplicate layer of the base image, everything can be masked or blended or screened as much as you like.8-bit doesn't bother me as I'm only editing already converted raws that are mostly fine for exposure and wb.If you're a slider-babby you'll struggle, but if you understand what the sliders are actually doing you can just make them yourself.If you just want to slap a pre-set on a catalogue of images and export them for an event or whatever, use something made for that, but for single image editing it's goated.
Photographers don't really edit their photos anymore, they just fuck with sliders and AI. It's not even photoshop that GIMP has to compete with, it's shit like lightroom and topaz.>>4480811Now that's a name I have not heard in a long time. Is that still around?
>>4481367What is this? Somekind of edge detection algo run on a high entropy image? ig a splash of water or just the surface of turbulent water, i am probably wrong.
>>4487887Nta. Looks like one of the inbuilt G'MIC effects you can apply in GIMP (and other GNOOO software). They're mostly memes but you can get some neat effects.
At this point Lightroom/PS combo is the only thing stopping me from ditching Windows. I'd love to see an actually good alternative that does everything those two apps do, but there isn't one.
I use Darktable for editing jpg:s also.
>>4488079It's a good tool overall, but it can't do compositing and layering well or at all. For my product photography, I need both.
>>4485372after learning how to use dt, I don't even like LR and C1 anymoreI could use LR for free because of my work but I don't want all that bloat and bs associated with it
