Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1 (and digiKam and showFoto)

On 12/28/24 7:30 PM, Lars Poulsen wrote:

GIMP is basically as good as PhotoShop.

 On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 11:04:22 -0600, chrisv wrote:

... I wouldn't know.  I've assumed that PS is better, based upon
its popularity and price.  I would expect evolving technology would
favor the payware, when it comes to outright performance.

 On 2024-12-28, Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> wrote:

The primary expenditure of commercial software is to develop
a GUI that can accommodate the stupid -- and I mean STUPID.
...
Both the GIMP and Photoshop (and all other such software) are
merely GUI wrappers around standard image processing techniques.
How the fuck can they be different?  They can't.
>
Except perhaps in the GUI.  Photoshop, as all commercial software,
caters to the stupid.  The GIMP not so much.

 I am not a grapical or photographical professional. I do not know much
about image processing techniques. I just need to manage a collection of
100,000 images (my wife takes a lot of pictures on her iPhone) and
occasionally polish a few of them up a bit.
 To me, the UX design matters a lot - I want the features I need to be
discoverable even if I don't know what they are called ... or even that
they exist. I would never spend the money for Photoshop, but I have
bought PhotoShop ELEMENTS twice. It has some nice features for managing
large collections, such as automatic face recognition and searching by
geolocation EXIF tags. But it seems to have gratuitous changes from one
release to the next, and some performance problems.
 I recently discovered digiKam, and it seems to me to be closely aligned
with what I need. We will see how I feel in 6 months.

Yes, an image organizer ('database' app) is what you're looking for, and to that end, neither GIMP, Photoshop, nor Photoshop Elements are that tool; they're image manipulator Apps.
Apple's Photos does some organizing, as does also Adobe Lightroom.  In Adobe land, it used to be Adobe Bridge, although I don't know if that's current.  Apple Aperture was another, but it was obsoleted years ago.
-hh