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?
- Daniel Quinn ( @danielquinn@lemmy.ca ) English1•1 hour ago
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.
- sntx ( @sntx@lemm.ee ) 2•8 hours ago
dd if=/dev/zero of=image.png bs=1k count=1024 conv=notrunc
- lengau ( @lengau@midwest.social ) 2•9 hours ago
I use kolourpaint to make memes
- Owl ( @BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ) 5•15 hours ago
Darktable for raw image processing
- toastal ( @toastal@lemmy.ml ) 1•15 hours ago
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.
- marcie (she/her) ( @marcie@lemmy.ml ) 10•1 day ago
Krita, I use it for everything, I hate gimp, it feels so bad
- Crozekiel ( @Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ) 6•1 day ago
I second Krita. I’ve used gimp for years but recently tried Krita and now I rarely open gimp anymore on purpose.
- marcie (she/her) ( @marcie@lemmy.ml ) 5•1 day ago
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
- jlow (he/him) ( @jlow@beehaw.org ) 2•23 hours 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 ( @Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ) English1•1 day 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.
- marcie (she/her) ( @marcie@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 day ago
In general I feel like its probably KDE’s best software package outside of its DE. Know of any other super good KDE apps?
- Adderbox76 ( @Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ) English1•14 hours 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.
- IrritableOcelot ( @IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ) 4•1 day ago
Okular is pretty great, I can’t find a package that does good annotation of PDFs built on GTK.
- Crozekiel ( @Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ) English2•1 day ago
I use Okular all the time. I am so dense I didn’t even realize Krita and Okular were both developed by KDE…
- IrritableOcelot ( @IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ) 3•21 hours ago
No worries, it’s pretty hard to keep track when their naming scheme is “it has a K in it”…
- Crozekiel ( @Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ) English1•2 hours ago
Ouf, :(
I did say I was dense… lol
- uniquethrowagay ( @uniquethrowagay@feddit.org ) 2•11 hours ago
Except for the also outstanding KDE Connect which could just be called Konnect.
- bonegakrejg ( @bonegakrejg@lemmy.ml ) 3•23 hours ago
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).
- Danitos ( @Danitos@reddthat.com ) 2•23 hours ago
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.
- pedroapero ( @pedroapero@lemmy.ml ) 4•1 day ago
I use Gthumb for simple edits (croping, resizing, rotating…).
- Disonantezko ( @Disonantezko@lemmy.sdf.org ) 4•1 day ago
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.
- paf ( @paf@jlai.lu ) 9•1 day ago
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/
- dangling_cat ( @dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 10•2 days ago
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/
- Eugenia ( @eugenia@lemmy.ml ) English2•1 day ago
That’s more of an inkscape replacement than a gimp/photoshop one. It’s mostly about vectors, not raster images.
- Psyhackological ( @Psyhackological@lemmy.ml ) 2•23 hours ago
It tries to do both.
- muhyb ( @muhyb@programming.dev ) 6•1 day ago
GIMP for most general stuff, Krita for painting and 2D animation, Aseprite for pixel everything.
- Nailbar ( @nailbar@sopuli.xyz ) 2•24 hours ago
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.
- muhyb ( @muhyb@programming.dev ) 1•1 day ago
Well, it still is OSS and one can still compile from source code. Or you can buy your binary. Never heard of Libresprite but looks fine if you absolutely want FOSS.
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 day ago
Aseprite
Software that should have been around for the Amiga
- Otter ( @otter@lemmy.ca ) English13•2 days ago
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,
Tidy
on android allows for AI search locally -
Termux for any CLI edits (imagemagick, etc.)
- Disonantezko ( @Disonantezko@lemmy.sdf.org ) 4•1 day ago
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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- Nora ( @crazyminner@lemmy.ml ) 7•2 days ago
Pinta.
It’s like a Linux version of Paint.net