[off-topic] PhotoPrint

[Ralf Mardorf]

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.

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