This article investigates whether GIMP, a free and open-source photo editing software, can meet the rigorous requirements of professional photo editing workflows. The author, a seasoned professional, compares GIMP's capabilities to industry standards like Adobe Photoshop, focusing on essential tasks like masking and image selection.
’s beta development team since the year before. So what I look for in a photo-editing application may be a bit more demanding than most to the right until the image mask has “tightened up” to your liking.
Also note that if an area isn’t too large, other tools like the HEALING brush can be used. Which leads us right into...Today almost anything someone does in an image editor is called “retouching”. But traditionally, retouching was the term used for the more delicate work, like facial corrections, and making products look absolutely perfect. The large changes to an image are often called photo-comping or special effect retouching.
But for some reason GIMP only supports displaying these channels in their respective colors. The red channel displays with a heavy red overlay, etc. This makes proper evaluation impossible, and the channels pointless and a major fail. There are a number of convoluted work-arounds. But the most direct option is to make duplicates of the R,G and B channels by dragging each to create either a new layer, or a new alpha channel, either of which can be viewed in grayscale.
GIMP’s “Cut and Float” option is almost the same thing, with the keyboard Control-Shift-L. This command results with the selection duplicated onto a “floating”, i.e. temporary, layer.This could be fine, but here are some of the oddities with the way GIMP does it: I am at a total loss to understand why they break this into two steps. How would temporary, invisible, floating content be of any use to us? I do not know.
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