Author: chuck
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Adjustment layers in GIMP 3.2: 43 non-destructive options
GIMP 3.2 now supports adjustment layers with this free plugin. The result is 43 ready-to-use non-destructive adjustment layers across tone, colour, blur, sharpen. creative, distort, and threshold/posterise categories. That’s more than Photoshop and Affinity combined.
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Copy and paste layer effects in GIMP 3
Copy GIMP layer filters and effects from one layer and paste them onto one or more others in GIMP 3, including across different images.
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Social media export plugin for GIMP: every platform at once
Export your photos to every major social media platform in one go. The Social Media Exporter for GIMP handles sizing, sharpening, borders, and format for you.
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darktable as a free Lightroom alternative? Count the costs…
Struggling with darktable’s learning curve? You’re not the problem. Here’s what the “best free Lightroom alternative” lists never tell you.
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Custom Command Panel for GIMP: your top tools, one click
The Custom Command Panel keeps your everyday GIMP plugins one click away, so you can stay in the zone while you edit your images.
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ART: a free Lightroom alternative for RAW editing
I used to rely on Lightroom for end-to-end processing: raw to final edit. Now I split the work with a dedicated raw editor and a separate image editor. Why? Lightroom is convenient, but convenience has hidden costs. A hands-on processor like ART reveals more about my images. It also sparks better ideas for editing them.
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Nik Collection 9 reviews: what they don’t tell you
How to spot reviews in the photography software space that are genuinely independent? Here’s some tips using Nik Collection 9 reviews as a case study: tell-tale signs of sponsored videos and articles parotting DxO’s own marketing material, except for one that does it right.
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State of the ART: AI denoising in ART on Linux
Getting AI denoising working in ART raw processor on Linux with a Wayland desktop is more involved than the official documentation suggests. This guide covers the complete setup of nind-denoise with the ART AppImage. It includes several essential steps that aren’t documented anywhere else. The result is AI denoising integrated into ART’s right-click menu.
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Colour grading in GIMP 3.2 with an all-in-one plug-in
The Colour Grading plug-in for GIMP 3 brings Lightroom-style colour wheels, tonal range masking, and presets to GIMP in a single dialog.
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Parametric mask plug-in for GIMP: precise masks from image data
Create a parametric mask in GIMP with this free plug-in. It builds precise layer masks from luminance or colour channels using a curve editor. Linux, Windows, macOS.
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