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I use gimp to edit (clean up) my scanned watercolor paintings. Yes, gimp is good enough now for what I used to do with photoshop: adjustment layers, more sane ui. Only thing that was missing is a very obscure feature that photoshop has, to merge multiple scanned pages of a very large photo. I now use vuescan for that (the free version does not add a watermark when using that particular feature, unlike its scans!). And then I edit in gimp, or RapidRAW (a new, lightroom-like app, that's easier to use than darktable). So I'm set.
Have you tried using naps2 for scans? I use it and I really like it. I mainly use it on my windows laptops (personal and work). It has a Linux build.
just downloaded it, i will try it later today
What do you think?
it's ok, but it doesn't allow for preview, to select exactly what I need in a page, it goes directly to scanning...
I think Vuescan is really pretty good software that’s at least twice as expensive as I’m willing to pay for it. Every time I come across it as a solution to a problem I realize that I could replace the obsolete hardware for the same or less.
I don't think so, it's just $33 to buy it outright (no subscription). You can't buy a good scanner or a printer for $33. It's a good value for money, especially since the guy has to buy (and most importantly) test all that hardware for each release. It's a lot of engineering time. But as I said, he probably forgot to add watermarking to the scanning stitching feature, so no purchase was necessary for me. The demo version is good enough for it!
Not quite. It’s $33/year subscription, $100 to buy it outright ($200 for pro).
If it was a one time $33 I would have purchased it a decade or two ago.
It's $33 for the basic edition to buy outright, which is what most people need.
here in europe we get this for a one-off purchase: