Thread 4480655

Does anyone use GIMP for photo editing and manipulation? Has it become a "photographer's program" yet, or is it still clunky and freetarded?

>>4480655 (OP)
You 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.

>>4480667
Can't lie anything else than camera raw filter feels like hell to use + you can, well, photoshop it afterwards.

>>4480655 (OP)
GIMP 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.

>>4480655 (OP)
The 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.

>>4480687
Digikam 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.

>>4480687
Darktable and Rawtherapee are great for what they are.

>>4480657
UFraw can export to gimp.

>>4480655 (OP)
Does 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.

>>4480655 (OP)
Basic adjustments in DPP 4 (cause only cameras with raw I have are Canon). But yes, I do use Gimp for everything else.

>>4481336
Lolympus 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.

>>4481336
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