Typically when I’m working with photos, I’m doing graphic design type work. I’ve been using GIMP for this. GIMP is meant for raster graphics editing.

You could also use Inkscape for vector graphics, or Krita for more digital painting type work. But I know all these tools are very powerful and overlap on some use cases.

Do you use any AI-type tools? I use a image upscaler called Upscayl. It works really well and works entirely locally.

Do you know of any tools that can remove backgrounds? This would help with help with the type of graphic design I do.

What other tools do you like to use as it pertains to images?

  • bonegakrejg@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    I used to use GIMP, but Krita has gotten advanced enough to where it can replace it for most things (at least that I would use it for).

  • toastal@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    Image is a broad word. I would say in order of usage per year it would be Darktable, Inkscape, Hugin, GIMP, Krita… but these obviously serve different purposes.

  • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    My daughter and my sister 🤣🤣. I have 0 art in my body, so they do all that for me. I could say I have a great AI driven FOSS process in place, lol.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    GIMP, but mostly because I’m already used to it. I keep meaning to give Krita a go, but just haven’t had the time and energy to figure out how to do all the things I already know how to do with GIMP using it.

  • noughtnaut@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I’m not an artist, I just need the occasional hack job or screenshot annotation.

    I loved the simple programs (this love stems from all the way back to MacPaint v1.0) and MS Paint has largely been ok for me apart from its lack of png support and only 90° rotations.

    On Linux, Pinta has been fantastic but these last few years it got increasingly more crashy, to the point where it will now consistently crash within 10 seconds or two clicks, regardless of Linux distro / laptop/pc / version of Pinta. (insert “whyyyyy” meme here)

    I’ve tried Krita, but it’s simply too much. Don’t even want to try installing Gimp. I am sad.

    • achille225@jlai.lu
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      1 month ago

      I can’t recommend Spectacle enough in that case : it does just about what you would expect, screenshots and simple editing. Very convenient, it’s the default in KDE

  • Danitos@reddthat.com
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    1 month ago

    A very useful tip for technical images (i.e., lab report/research): export whatever graph you created as .svg, and do some prettifying touches in InkScape. It is faaaar easier than doing it in code.

    Also, always export the .svg, even if you’re not gonna use it. You never know when you want to do a very small correction, and it will save you quite some time.

    • rutrum@lm.paradisus.dayOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I love use tools like mermaid or plantuml. But Ive always faught with formatting (or gave up) instead of editing after the fact. Great idea?

      In the same vein, I use draw.io to make architecture diagrams and flow charts.

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Lots of great suggestions here already

    I haven’t seen mobile editing mentioned yet:

    • ImageToolbox for a very good Android image editing tool

    • Fossify Gallery for some quick editing tools built into the gallery

    • While not directly for editing, Tidy on android allows for AI search locally

    • Termux for any CLI edits (imagemagick, etc.)

    • Disonantezko@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 month ago

      I prefer:

      • ImagePipe: fast edit
      • Snapseed: complex edit (not FOSS)
      • Aves: gallery
      • Superimage: AI upscaler (RealESRGAN)
      • Waifu2x NCNN: AI upscaler (Waifu2x, RealCuGAN)
  • rutrum@lm.paradisus.dayOPEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I’ve been meaning to get into some image generation type things too. The best self hosted tool I know of is InvokeAI. I’m sure there could be a whole other post (or other community) about image generation tools.

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    You can install and run Stable Diffusion locally (Pinokio is a versatile installer that can run SD and many other open-source AI tools as well). With SD you can build your own upscalers that are better than Upscayl, and do things like background removal too (in addition to prompt-based generation and such).

  • TheForvalaka@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Image removal and AI tools have an overlap, for sure. RemBG is pretty effective, which runs in many of the environments with Stable Diffusion. Bria is a recent improved model for RemBG, which I’ve had some good success with. It’s not perfect, but it cuts out a lot of the work.