FLOSS software and professional use (was "Photoprint")

[Aaron Rainbolt]

On 4/27/23 11:46, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-04-27 at 08:22 -0500, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
>> At any rate, this is a mailing list about a primarily open-source
>> operating system with open-source software, so recommending software
>> that can't even run on that operating system doesn't make a whole lot
>> of sense to me. If you want to use proprietary software, that's fine.
>> But warning people that FLOSS software is "bad" in an ML about FLOSS
>> software is sort of like saying MS is evil in the middle of a Windows
>> forum.
> Hi,
>
> if somebody mentions the term "professional", than it's fair to mention
> what almost all professionals for good reasons prefer for professional
> work in the mentioned domain.
>
> We didn't talk about servers we talked about photo software.
>
> Btw. it's not just black and white.
>
> "Affinity Photo commercial image editor (since version 1.5)"
> - https://lensfun.github.io/usage/
>
> Lensfun is LGPL3 and much likely available by all major distros, but
> also used by proprietary software.
>
> And as already pointed out, apart from an iPadPro, where you can paint
> with a good pencil on a large display on decent hardware under the hood,
> I run a Windows guest on a Linux host, to run Affinity on a desktop
> machine. I wouldn't run Windows on bare metal.
>
>> My mom has been using GIMP for professional work for around a decade,
>> and I've been using it myself for professional work for several
>> months.
> I could provide countless examples why it's very unusual to use Gimp for
> digital photo editing, but I will just repeat one example. Professional
> work isn't done after developing a digital photo and maybe also doing
> some pixel based artwork with it, too. You sell a media that needs to
> fit to some professional standards, hence you likely continue to use
> desktop publishing or something else. What ever you additionally need to
> do, you want a suite that does it all and you will not migrate from this
> GTK app to this Qt app to finish work.

I think that's more of a matter of preference than a matter of 
suitability. My workflow for website building involves Vim, Nikola, 
Chrome, GIMP, and Inkscape. All of them are either unrelated or only 
barely related, and yet they work together extremely smoothly and do a 
fantastic job in tandem. When I'm packaging software for Ubuntu, I'm 
hopping around between GNOME Boxes, sbuild, Vim, sometimes Kate, and 
even Qt Creator in some instances.

This is the UNIX philosophy (to some degree anyway). A tool should do 
one thing and do that one thing well. GIMP is awesome at photo editing 
and even image creation if you use it right. It doesn't do anything else 
because it shouldn't have to. It does its one job (ok, really a whole 
family of related jobs) quite well, and it's perfectly usable for that 
purpose. I'm fine with having to migrate from there to a different app 
once my image is prepped.

Also, since desktop publishing is coming up somewhat frequently, have 
you ever looked into LibreOffice Draw?

> Apart from this a subscriber is interested in PhotoPrint. Mentioning
> Gimp in the first place was wrong, since it's seemingly a complete
> different kind of software. PhotoPrint is obviously the opposite of
> "professional" photo software. It seems to provide features to get
> things done quickly without a learning curve. This is at least my
> impression.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
-- 
Aaron Rainbolt
Lubuntu Developer
https://github.com/ArrayBolt3
https://launchpad.net/~arraybolt3
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