Glimpse VS darktable

glimpse fork have already died :`( https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse/wiki/Development-Priorities

Remember the fork of GIMP because people were offended by the name?

https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse

https://glimpse-editor.org/posts/a-project-on-hiatus/

> What if the name of the software was CripplePhoto

Argumentum ad absurdum.

> I mean, no professional uses Gimp for photo editing

Perhaps because the lack of CMYK, the limited architecture for plugin, or the outdated UI have more to do than the name?

If the name was the real bottleneck for adoption, you can be sure that you'd see someone creating a fork with different branding and being widely successful. Oh, wait. It has been tried already! [0]

[0] https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse

There is a bunch of folks who forked Gimp because they find the name offensive. Since they still have to refer to it they use euphemisms (such a "upstream") or call it "GNU Imp".

Glimps is a good one. It has pressure sensitivity support for drawing tablets. If you want something closer to Illustrator, Inkscape is your best shot.

They're named by committee. No committee would have come up with "GIMP" (also forked as "Glimpse").

I've been enjoying the Glimpse fork a lot more these days.

(cc u/krapht) check out glimpse! it’s a fork of GIMP that’s a bit more modern. also an nx version coming soon which will be geared toward beginners

There's also darktable which is open source but rather .. involved. It's incredibly powerful but has a steep learning curve. https://www.darktable.org/

> the while loop of death (source: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/blob/darktable-4....)

shudder

Yeah, I too wouldn't want to volunteer to contribute to a project which is OK with this.

https://www.darktable.org/ or https://www.rawtherapee.com/ both free, open source and cross platform

Author has a blog post here, https://ansel.photos/en/news/darktable-dans-le-mur-au-ralent..., which exhibits some example code, for example, this: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/blob/darktable-4....

That's a far cry from what I'd find acceptable in any project.

Darktable - Price: Free Free and open-source photo editing software for Mac that features advanced editing tools and a user-friendly interface.

The base M2 is plenty cheap and pack a lot of punch in it, it flies through my RAW edits in darktable (https://www.darktable.org/) even with just 8GB of RAM. (Granted I don't have much things else running when using darktable).