I had less work these last weekend & i was alone, so i tried to use Krita instead of Gimp (i don’t use Photoshop anymore & will never do i) & the photography manipulation template as a part of my workflow, in a professional & effortless way. First, cieLAB is not a good working color space choice. A template… It’s tricky & time consuming, in a professional workflow. I repeat it, Krita is an excellent software… To sketch, draw, paint & animate, not to retouch, it will never not be. The Krita’s history say it, you say it & the roadmap tell nothing else. The brush flow’s granularity is similar for the softwares, with a different approach. The Gimp’s evolution is now great, for retouching photography, internal’s workflow in linear color mode, Opencl, useful filters, MyPaint brushes, regular updates & a dream roadmap. You need to “repaint” your photography, the 2 are suitable. But if you have to spend more time to retouch your image than to light & shot it, in studio, you have a problem with the lighting. You need to rethink & master the light. Too much retouch/lighting repaint, kill the photographic aspect of the image. In 3D creation aiming to manufactured’s product representation, after photographic rendering, the lighting & retouch are entrusted to experienced photographers or photographic’s retouch specialised teams, to give a photographic touch, and it’s not an easy work.