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What's your favorite FOSS tools for image editing? (lm.paradisus.day)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Krita, I use it for everything, I hate gimp, it feels so bad

[–] Crozekiel 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I second Krita. I've used gimp for years but recently tried Krita and now I rarely open gimp anymore on purpose.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, text tool is just awful but I feel like I heard that they're working on an update quite some time ago ...

[–] Crozekiel 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I didn't think either were noticeably worse than in gimp for my use, but you might be comparing to a higher bar (or your use is more intricate than mine), lol.

I have quite liked the ability to turn on snapping for lining things up, and managed recently to freehand a very nearly perfect hexagon with it's help... But I really wish there were some options for drawing polygons though... Even mspaint has the option to draw some basic shapes like stars and arrows and various polygons with just click and drag.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In general I feel like its probably KDE's best software package outside of its DE. Know of any other super good KDE apps?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Okular is pretty great, I can't find a package that does good annotation of PDFs built on GTK.

[–] Crozekiel 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use Okular all the time. I am so dense I didn't even realize Krita and Okular were both developed by KDE...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No worries, it's pretty hard to keep track when their naming scheme is "it has a K in it"...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Except for the also outstanding KDE Connect which could just be called Konnect.

[–] Crozekiel 2 points 1 month ago

Ouf, :(

I did say I was dense... lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Okular is great. Kate is amazing. Kdenlive is BY FAR the most advanced FOSS video editor. I'd easily put Kdenlive above Krita, but that's because of my particular use case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That makes sense. Thanks for the input!