RolandRB wrote:
Does anyone use "The Gimp" as an image editor and if so, which plugins
do you recommend?

I used a couple years ago under both Windows and Linux.

The main complaint I have is while doing USM that you have to set the
parameter, let it run, examine the result, undo, change parameters, run
it... eg: the pre-viewing while adjusting is not very good. They may
have improved it in the meantime.

My other complaint is that it ran in 8-bit image mode. There was a
separate version of it that did images in 16 bit, however it missed a
lot of the other upgrades to the main Gimp edition.

In short, the user interface is not as natural to use as PS, and the 16
bit image mode is not (was not, anyway) in the main release.

It's worth a try (as it costs nothing but time), but keep your
expectations in check.

Cheers,
Alan


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