Typically when I’m working with photos, I’m doing graphic design type work. I’ve been using GIMP for this. GIMP is meant for raster graphics editing.
You could also use Inkscape for vector graphics, or Krita for more digital painting type work. But I know all these tools are very powerful and overlap on some use cases.
Do you use any AI-type tools? I use a image upscaler called Upscayl. It works really well and works entirely locally.
Do you know of any tools that can remove backgrounds? This would help with help with the type of graphic design I do.
What other tools do you like to use as it pertains to images?
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remove backgrounds? i think you could find a krita plugin for it, or just use an online website / huggingface space.
My daughter and my sister 🤣🤣. I have 0 art in my body, so they do all that for me. I could say I have a great AI driven FOSS process in place, lol.
dd if=/dev/zero of=image.png bs=1k count=1024 conv=notruncI use kolourpaint to make memes
Darktable for raw image processing
Image is a broad word. I would say in order of usage per year it would be Darktable, Inkscape, Hugin, GIMP, Krita… but these obviously serve different purposes.
I used to use GIMP, but Krita has gotten advanced enough to where it can replace it for most things (at least that I would use it for).
Does that include raster editing? I liked KritasUI but I’m not an artist.
A very useful tip for technical images (i.e., lab report/research): export whatever graph you created as .svg, and do some prettifying touches in InkScape. It is faaaar easier than doing it in code.
Also, always export the .svg, even if you’re not gonna use it. You never know when you want to do a very small correction, and it will save you quite some time.
I love use tools like mermaid or plantuml. But Ive always faught with formatting (or gave up) instead of editing after the fact. Great idea?
In the same vein, I use draw.io to make architecture diagrams and flow charts.
I’m not an artist, I just need the occasional hack job or screenshot annotation.
I loved the simple programs (this love stems from all the way back to MacPaint v1.0) and MS Paint has largely been ok for me apart from its lack of png support and only 90° rotations.
On Linux, Pinta has been fantastic but these last few years it got increasingly more crashy, to the point where it will now consistently crash within 10 seconds or two clicks, regardless of Linux distro / laptop/pc / version of Pinta. (insert “whyyyyy” meme here)
I’ve tried Krita, but it’s simply too much. Don’t even want to try installing Gimp. I am sad.
I can’t recommend Spectacle enough in that case : it does just about what you would expect, screenshots and simple editing. Very convenient, it’s the default in KDE
GIMP, but mostly because I’m already used to it. I keep meaning to give Krita a go, but just haven’t had the time and energy to figure out how to do all the things I already know how to do with GIMP using it.
Krita, I use it for everything, I hate gimp, it feels so bad
Krita looks more like a drawing and animation solution, whereas GIMP is an editing / manipulation solution. Or can Krita be used as an editor, too? I’m going to download later and give it a shot, but just wanted your opinion so I have better expectations.
i use it as an editor even though thats not really its use case. i just feel like gimp is far too clunky, it just feels “off” to me in comparison to photoshop
I second Krita. I’ve used gimp for years but recently tried Krita and now I rarely open gimp anymore on purpose.
Krita is nice overall, but I have some minor gripes with certain tools behaving unintuitively. May just be because I’m used to GIMP, but some simple stuff such as cropping a layer is not at all convenient.
In general I feel like its probably KDE’s best software package outside of its DE. Know of any other super good KDE apps?
Okular is pretty great, I can’t find a package that does good annotation of PDFs built on GTK.
I use Okular all the time. I am so dense I didn’t even realize Krita and Okular were both developed by KDE…
No worries, it’s pretty hard to keep track when their naming scheme is “it has a K in it”…
Ouf, :(
I did say I was dense… lol
Except for the also outstanding KDE Connect which could just be called Konnect.
My biggest complaints with krita are around it not being easy to align objects and the text tool could use some love. Other than that, it feels like a great photoshop replacement
I use Gthumb for simple edits (croping, resizing, rotating…).
With ChaiNNer you can remove background, upscale (local), it’s a lot more flexible and compatible with models than Upscayl, also a little bit more complex (node based, not as complex as comfyUI). You can upscale an image with a face model and use other model for everything else in the same image.
I have used darktable, but doesn’t seem to fill your need as it is more a lightroom replacement than Photoshop https://www.darktable.org/
GIMP for most general stuff, Krita for painting and 2D animation, Aseprite for pixel everything.
Krita has tools for 2D animation? I need to look into that.
I forgot about Asesprite! Thats a great tool.
Aseprite was originally licensed under GPL but later made propretary. The fork of the last GPL version is called Libresprite but it doesnt have much activity, I dont think.
Aseprite
Software that should have been around for the Amiga
