Tannin
27-03-2022, 1:21pm
Well, I've finally bitten the bullet and got rid of Photoshop. I was paying through the nose for it every single month and barely using it. Happy to see the back of it.
Photoshop was useful to me for four main tasks:
Raw development. However quite some time ago I switched from the (excellent) Adobe Camera Raw to the (even better) DxO Photostudio.
The DxO Nik tools. For these, Photoshop was just a platform to run them in (back in the day they were Photoshop add-ins which needed Photoshop to run). But these days I can run the Nik tools stand-alone, or from inside DxO Photostudio: Photoshop is no longer required.
Basic dodge and burn. I can more-or-less achieve the same result using Photostudio and/or Nik, but get there in different ways. I would like to be able to dodge and burn explicitly (as in Photoshop, and many other packages).
Basic image joining and layout (like the example below).
http://tannin.net.au/other/ap/2017/jumble.jpg
So what I need is something that:
Does basic dodge and burn (similar to Photoshop, Corel Paintshop Pro, probably 50 other programs)
Can lay out 2 or more pictures (like the example above)
Can't think of anything else I can't already do with PMView and/or Photostudio + Nik, but there may be the odd other thing.
Easy to learn and use, small and efficient.
Free and open source is good, but I'm happy to pay for something better or easier to use. (Last time I looked at The Gimp, it was big and clunky. Possibly it is better now, but why not ask here for advice first?)
Thanks all.
Photoshop was useful to me for four main tasks:
Raw development. However quite some time ago I switched from the (excellent) Adobe Camera Raw to the (even better) DxO Photostudio.
The DxO Nik tools. For these, Photoshop was just a platform to run them in (back in the day they were Photoshop add-ins which needed Photoshop to run). But these days I can run the Nik tools stand-alone, or from inside DxO Photostudio: Photoshop is no longer required.
Basic dodge and burn. I can more-or-less achieve the same result using Photostudio and/or Nik, but get there in different ways. I would like to be able to dodge and burn explicitly (as in Photoshop, and many other packages).
Basic image joining and layout (like the example below).
http://tannin.net.au/other/ap/2017/jumble.jpg
So what I need is something that:
Does basic dodge and burn (similar to Photoshop, Corel Paintshop Pro, probably 50 other programs)
Can lay out 2 or more pictures (like the example above)
Can't think of anything else I can't already do with PMView and/or Photostudio + Nik, but there may be the odd other thing.
Easy to learn and use, small and efficient.
Free and open source is good, but I'm happy to pay for something better or easier to use. (Last time I looked at The Gimp, it was big and clunky. Possibly it is better now, but why not ask here for advice first?)
Thanks all.