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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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.
GIMP is alright. Mostly I stick to it because Krita’s dependency on QT means it looks and works differently from everything else in my GNOME environment.
dd if=/dev/zero of=image.png bs=1k count=1024 conv=notruncDarktable for raw image processing
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
I use kolourpaint to make memes
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 heard about Graphite the other day. It’s nowhere near finished, but very promising. Hopefully, it becomes the FOSS of Photopea. https://editor.graphite.rs/
That’s more of an inkscape replacement than a gimp/photoshop one. It’s mostly about vectors, not raster images.
It tries to do both.
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.
I use Krita every time i need to edit something. It’s more than good enough for me
Lots of great suggestions here already
I haven’t seen mobile editing mentioned yet:
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ImageToolbox for a very good Android image editing tool
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Fossify Gallery for some quick editing tools built into the gallery
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While not directly for editing,
Tidyon android allows for AI search locally -
Termux for any CLI edits (imagemagick, etc.)
I prefer:
- ImagePipe: fast edit
- Snapseed: complex edit (not FOSS)
- Aves: gallery
- Superimage: AI upscaler (RealESRGAN)
- Waifu2x NCNN: AI upscaler (Waifu2x, RealCuGAN)
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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/
I use Gthumb for simple edits (croping, resizing, rotating…).
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.
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.
