I had a similar thing. I started using Linux for privacy reasons and over the course of replacing all of the proprietary software I was using I fell in love with FOSS. Especially GIMP and other photography-related software.
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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1·14 days 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.
GIMP is excellent software and I love using it. There are some great plugins coming out for the new GIMP 3 series too.