I mean... Gimp works. And if your first job is CAD, Programming, or something non-artistic, Gimp is what I'm willing to pay for.
I'm willing to pay $4000+ for my profession's tools. But when it comes to a hobby, cheap or free is better.
I'm willing to pay $4000+ for my profession's tools. But when it comes to a hobby, cheap or free is better.
Maybe Gimp has just rotted my brain over the years with its UI...
So I can see going from Gimp to a more standard interface being difficult, if Gimp is what you're used to. Conversely so many people hate using Gimp because of the same reason if they're used to Photoshop
On top of that, I downloaded Krita again, and the UI seems more approachable than I remember. Don't know what's up with that, maybe there was some freak misconfiguration last time I tried. Ah well.
Kind of wondering what kind of image would be 30GB... :)
* https://openslide.org/formats/aperio/
* https://web.archive.org/web/20120420105738/http://www.aperio...
Pages 14 onward give the info. Seems like it's a variation of TIFF, in tiled format.
Main tile (image) size is 120k x 80k. That's huge!
29GB when saved uncompressed. I'd hope most applications would use the optional compression features. :)
I like Krita (https://krita.org) as a painting tool. Darktable (https://www.darktable.org) does photo editing, although I haven't used it myself.
Edit: Guarantee not a single person downvoting this is an audio video or photography professional. This attitude of OSS above all, damn the users is likely part of the reason there aren't more viable creative apps for Linux, and more viable OSS creative apps overall.
And as mentioned, Affinity/Adobe software is not available on Linux, which immediately disqualifies it for me personally, even though I'd like to upgrade past GIMP and I'm very much used to Photoshop after years of using it.
For example? As a Linux user I would love to pay for an intuitive image editor. Unlike what you suggest the problem is not the OSS attitude, it's that there's no alternative.
Either way Gimp works well enough for my purposes. The UI could be a bit more robust, but it's not nearly as bad as some people make it out to be. For the sake of my blood pressure I'd rather use Gimp a day than MS Office for half an hour. At least Gimp's native file format is deterministic.
In terms of commercial alternatives available on Linux, your options are limited for the same reason that so many professional level graphics programmes are not available on Android. Linux users spend enormously less per desk on software, the balkanisation of the platform makes support difficult or impossible. Worse, unlike Android in the mobile space, Linux has so small a percentage of the desktop market that it likely isn't worth developing for (for commercial creative applications).
If you think this situation is the fault of commercial app developers, you're exhibiting exactly the OSS snob attitude I was criticising.
As for the wasteland of usable OSS media applications, I think that's hyperbolic, but I agree the interfaces are often surprisingly poor in relation to the technical capabilities.
In terms of the available apps, I think you may be blind to just how great production and editing apps are outside the OSS space for everything from audio production to vector design. Literally in terms of great OSS design / media apps there's VLC for consumption, and Blender. That's it.
There is no usable OSS alternative with comparable functionality (let alone usability) in most of the categories used by professional (or even enthusiastic amateur) for most creative work. Those apps that do exist are decades out of date in terms of features and usability. It's as though the evolution of design language and user interface that took place after the release of the iphone never happened.
Here's a simple analogy. Imagine an operating system where the only IDE was notepad or its equivalent. Writers could point at that and say, whats the issue it meets all my needs, you can absolutely code in it, its uses almost no memory, supports unicode etc etc. Programmers would rightfully find it completely inadequate because it's not suited to their much more specific, rich, evolved usecase.
Similarly there's a complete blindness in OSS circles about how much better design / creative apps are in the rest of the computing world, and how little evolution there has been on these platforms in the OSS world, and how completely the available options fail to offer any of the functionality necessitated by a modern creative workflow for image creation, audio creation, video creation etc.
At a certain point the old HP (before they where shit) Joke if you have to ask the price you cant afford it still applies.
Lets say I'm a programmer who needs to spin up multiple VMs / Docker / etc. etc. to properly emulate some server setup. Multiple cores and tons of RAM (more than 256GB) needed on a regular basis, with a few NVMe drives in RAID0 so that those VMs can be snapshot in blazing fast speeds.
Paying $100 to $4000 for VMWare workstation, Visual Studio subscriptions, SQLServer non-express, Red Hat Virtual Machine License, Visio, and other such top-class tools would be 100% reasonable, along with the $10,000+ Threadripper pro computer with 512GB RAM or whatever.
But image editing wouldn't be part of that user's workflow. Suddenly, the professional developer is asked to make a web-banner on the top of his Github document with the logo of the company on it.
Guess what? Said developer probably is downloading GIMP. The hassle of going to corporate to be compensated for lol $25 on another image editor is just not worth the time.