"Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote

>>>> I've never felt the need to use Photoshop. Gimp make wonders for me :-)
>>>
>>> Because you have no idea how little GIMP is v. PS - at least for
>>> photographers, editors and designers. They need and use features in PS
>>> that don't exist for GIMP.
>>
>> It's comical how limited GIMP is in comparison. And don't even get
>> started on Photoshop's more recent AI-driven functionality, which is
>> frankly amazing in terms of productivity enhancement.
>>
>
> When I made the switch from Windows (with CorelDraw) to Linux, I was
> amazed at how good Gimp was, considering the price difference.

The GIMP is good for many things - but I found it not all that easy to use
to do the three things you do most when you're editing screenshots, but we
have to be careful there are fundamentally image editors & photo editors.

For now, for the purpose of this thread, which isn't necessarily about
image editors or photo editors, I'll lump them along with image viewers.

To further advise those on Linux, I just looked into my software archives
to find these freeware image editors I used to use (long ago) on Linux.
<https://i.postimg.cc/rmMg4qp8/free-linux-image-editors.jpg>

Long ago I had tested _every_ free photo/image editor ever suggested on the
linux newsgroups (centos & ubuntu), some of which, offhand, were The GIMP,
F-shot, KolourPaint, Krita, LightZone, Inkscape, Fotoxx, DigiKam,
RawTherapee, ShowFOTO, Photivo, Darktable, Shotwell, GThumb, Gnome Paint,
Shutter, mtPaint, GTKRawGallery, gThumb viewer, TuxPaint, DrawPile,
MyPaint, Karbon vector viewer, Manch Studios, etc.

Even so, I have to admit, The GIMP is a bit too difficult to use for me.
As is ImageMagick <https://sourceforge.net/projects/imagemagick/>.

The bane of screenshot editing are these three things not in all editors.
1. Easy drawing of open boxes (most do it well, but not The GIMP).
2. Easy texting without having to define anything ahead of time.
3. Easy curved extensible manageable arrows (most do this horridly).

Example from yesterday: <https://i.postimg.cc/KvTvtMS8/scrcpy31.jpg>
*These 2 commands cast your phone into a 2-feet-tall giant on your PC monitor over Wi-Fi*
<https://groups.google.com/g/comp.mobile.android/c/vZym07COglY>

However... it has been a long time since my dual-boot CentOS/Windows days,
where, as I recall, Krita was 2nd most useful for screenshot editing needs.
<https://krita.org/en/download/krita-desktop/>

Mostly I had used KolourPaint & F-shot which did screenshot editing well.
<https://i.postimg.cc/rmMg4qp8/free-linux-image-editors.jpg>
--
I'm told by some that Pinta (which is slated to replace Paint.NET) also
works well on Linux - but I haven't tested Pinta in a while unfortunately.