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?
remove backgrounds? i think you could find a krita plugin for it, or just use an online website / huggingface space.
I used an ai painting pkugin before…never considered others! I’ll take a look.
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.
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,
Tidy
on 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 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 often use imagemagick (cli) for cropping, rotating, resizing, etc.
For painting from the command line, I use sed to replace data at given offsets
sed -i '1s|^.\{10\}.\{5\}|\0*****|' image.jpg
It requires decoding the jpeg in my head to get the said offsets, but the pragmatism is unbeatable.
lmao, what?
You do the decomposition in your head to get the raw image, replace pixels, and then recompose the jpeg, taking note of the diff. That diff is what you then swap into the original with sed.
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
That makes sense. Thanks for the input!
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.
Yeah, text tool is just awful but I feel like I heard that they’re working on an update quite some time 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?
Okular is pretty great, I can’t find a package that does good annotation of PDFs built on GTK.
I use Okular all the time. I am so dense I didn’t even realize Krita and Okular were both developed by KDE…
No worries, it’s pretty hard to keep track when their naming scheme is “it has a K in it”…
Ouf, :(
I did say I was dense… lol
Except for the also outstanding KDE Connect which could just be called Konnect.
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.
You can install and run Stable Diffusion locally (Pinokio is a versatile installer that can run SD and many other open-source AI tools as well). With SD you can build your own upscalers that are better than Upscayl, and do things like background removal too (in addition to prompt-based generation and such).
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/
Pinta.
It’s like a Linux version of Paint.net
I don’t think its 3D rotation capabilities are as good, though.
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.
I use Gthumb for simple edits (croping, resizing, rotating…).
I paid 700 for Adobe Photoshop each month, and pay extra 10 each time to unlock when I open the program.
I made a very generous donation to Krita a week ago, which was $10. They seemed happy about it.
Darktable for raw image processing