On 1/15/25 9:56 AM, Menzies, Luke I wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'd like to second Valerie's suggestion of GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program). It is a good, open source, free alternative to PhotoShop, and it runs on MacOS, Windows, and Linux.
>
> Personally, I am a rabid Linux fan. I have been looking for alternatives to Adobe Acrobat for manipulating PDFs (crop, rotate, combine, OCR, sharpen, etc.) that will run on Linux because it is not possible to run Adobe products on Linux, even using Wine (Windows emulation software).
>
> LibreOffice Draw is free, open source, and can do a lot of the things I want to do with PDFs. I'm pretty sure it will run on MacOS, Windows, and Linux.
>
My bigger reservation of Gimp (it's been a minute) is that it didn't
(doesn't?) do non-destructive work on images. I cannot verify if this is
still true of Gimp because I moved on to
https://www.darktable.org/about/features/
In my mind Gimp requires a professional (which I am not) who knows what
they are doing.
Cheers,
./fxk
Received on Wed Jan 15 2025 - 10:20:25 EST