I was a professional photographer for years, in analog times. When I started digital photography, I had Photoshop, of course, and it worked well. But Gimp always appealed to me, and eventually I switched completely. And that was very good, especially since I switched completely to Linux two years ago.
With Gimp I can do everything, everything I want and everything I need. AI doesn’t interest me at all in image editing. If I wanted such standardized, artificial looking and perfectly made photos, I would buy them as postcards or posters. I don’t need them.
When I take photos, I see a challenge: my intention, the subject, the camera, the light, etc. And these I want to harmonize with my mood. There I would feel completely patronized if an image editor makes me my pictures according to their ideas. Nothing for me.
I love Gimp and I will work with Gimp as long as it is possible, I hope forever.
And darktabel is great, even more: sometimes a little too great, so I reach for my favorite: RawTherapee, or ART. But all three are so good that no human would need more than what these programs offer.
How nice that there are people who develop these free programs.
Not sure why he moved the Gimp tutorials to another channel, but might be related to ad money. Income really depends of type of content. Finance pays way more that gaming, cooking beats both. Commercial software will pay more than Open Source.
I haven’t touched Gimp for long time. Affinity I use sometimes. Talking about discounts, the v2 discount ends Jan 25th. So far I use the free trial. And BTW current owners do not get any discount. Does v2 AI has any AI function?
I am end user and I think it’s good. Depends probably where you come from. I started editing with darktable some years ago. I am used to it. If you come from Photoshop (or whatever other software) GUI, workflow is very different, some may lack patience to invest the time to learn it.
To give an example, I find it strange to work with layers (Affinity), I prefer the darktable way for straight raw edits.
After all, the real problem is not that Gimp tutorials disappear from a website.
The question is why? Commercial face point? Probably.
But the big question is looking into the future: If I can continue to use Gimp as it is today - then all is well. If Gimp is further developed, even better. But, … but what if Gimp gives up the ghost? If we could no longer use Gimp in the near future? That would be bitter for many. And that’s what I’m all about. What are the alternatives on Linux?
May Gimp live forever.
I know I’m going to be that guy, but the best alternative there is Krita. Quite flexible in the non-destructive department. It’s missing foreground extraction and a bit of filters (could be bypassed with G’MIC), but that’s about it. Krita is what I use as it actually offers non-destructive editing, and I prefer that to none of it even if there is more stuff on other categories. There’s some that use it for better color space support too.
I’ve seen this guy’s tutorials and he comes off as condescending and egotistical too much of the time. This video is no exception. Sounds like someone is trying to get an Adobe sponsorship.
Yes, he struck me as very unsympathetic, so I am reluctant to trust his statements. He obviously has intentions that he does not mention. I have a strong impression that he is not interested in Gimp itself at all.
But at least he has generated a lively and interesting discussion. We can be happy about that.
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