

For jobs where you just want to make cuts check out ‘Lossless Cut’. It’s extremely simple and extremely fast.
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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For jobs where you just want to make cuts check out ‘Lossless Cut’. It’s extremely simple and extremely fast.
GIMP is excellent software and I love using it. There are some great plugins coming out for the new GIMP 3 series too.
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.


I 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.
Have a look at Debian. If you set up Flatpak with Flathub (very easy) you can easily install all of the applications you’re likely to want with the GNOME Software GUI. Debian is a community distribution.