LightZone VS PhotoGIMP

LightZone is still very much being maintained - albeit by one developer.

There's an effort underway to recover the original web site, but the domain name owner disappeared a while ago, which complicated things.

Agreed on the paradigms around stacking / ordering & non-destructive workflows used in Lightzone. It's my preferred photo touching-up software for similar reasons.

https://github.com/ktgw0316/LightZone

My original post can be found here on GitHub.

LightZone

Once you're on that page > https://github.com/ktgw0316/LightZone/releases/tag/4.2.4 scroll down the page

Also consider lightzone. Their website is down, but it's actively maintained on GitHub. Open source re-release of the first software to do nondestructive editing.

Gimp is powerful. But because its edits are destructive, it's not a tool I choose to use anymore. I was using LightZone but switched to DT because of the light table.

LightZone is a medium-level program that's fairly intuitive, and can achieve some nice results with presets. Website is down, but the github repo is still active the last release was less than two weeks ago.

Personally, I'm planning to convert LightZone from Java to Kotlin, but haven't started yet. It uses old Java Advanced Imaging inside, and Eclipse ImageN is compatible with JAI, so I think that to create Kotlin wrapper/extension functions for Imagen is the best way to go.

I used to use PhotoShop heavily and still have a lot of the UI muscle-memorized. I switched to GIMP + https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP and found it mostly fits my needs for basic image editing.

There's also photoGimp:

https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP

But it's interesting if we can get FOSS Gui toolkits that allow for different approaches to menu/toolbar/discovery where the user can easily adjust and select how things should work - like readline Emacs/vi selection on steroids for Gui.

There is this project that might help you:

https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP

I doubt it, code needs to be maintained , even if you will get stuck on old libraries you could miss out on features and improvement, of course if the changes are small and it's more like a patchset (something like photogimp) , that might be more feasible.

I don't like gimp at all, but you can still try PhotoGimp.

did you try PhotoGIMP?

See https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP/graphs/code-frequency