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4 hours agoCheck out Shotwell. Its editing functionality sounds exactly like what you’re looking for, although it is designed for managing a library of images videos.
jpicture
I’m a UK-based photographer specialising in photographing people and artwork. I also teach FOSS (free and open source) software relating to photography and graphic design, both in-person and online via videolink. If you need help with GIMP, RawTherapee, Geeqie or Shotwell get in touch :)
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1·1 day agoI haven’t used Krita much but found that the brushes were really nice to use.
GIMP is definitely a bit disorentating and complex if you’ve never used it before. After spending a couple of hours of proper study to get to grips with it though, the power and flexibility of it is awesome.
As with the recent Adobe/Photoshop news, I understand why this has been done and the sort of user that it’s for, but FOSS graphics and photography software on Linux is so good now that I don’t think this will have the impact it might have had a few years ago.
That’s actually a really nice idea.
You can accomplish this with GIMP by removing all the UI panels (which it calls Dockable Dialogues) and tools from the toolbox, and then adding some of them back in. By default it starts off more complicated though, which I think is why a lot of people find it overwhelming to learn.
You’ve inspired me to do an experiment making a really simple and stripped back GIMP configuration. I can send you the config file if you want and you can let me now what you think.