Yes, I know snapseed is a mobile app, but that's the kind of simplicity I'm looking for. Pre-made filters, an auto-fix button, adjustment sliders, etc.

I have image toolbox on mobile and even that's a bit over the top with option (and I still haven't found sliders for brightness, contrast, saturation, shadows etc in that maze).

Linux or Windows programs are fine, I run both.

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[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I use Pinta for basic editing, I mostly do cropping and annotation.

For mor complex stuff Krita and Inkscape for the annotations.

[–] uninvitedguest@piefed.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the Pinta recommendation, I'll check that out.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

I also usually use Pinta for something I want to do quickly.

[–] illusionist@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Looking for the holy grail?

I hope immich is successful and collects a shitload of money and increases it's processing capabilities. I'd be happy if it could rotate a photo without losing all exif data and moving it into a different location.

In the meantime, you could look into digikam

[–] uninvitedguest@piefed.ca 2 points 1 month ago

I too hope for Immich's development in that direction. Thanks for the recommendation of Digikam.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gwenview when it's really small.

[–] mmmm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

When it's not that small I use another one of KDE, showfoto

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Now I'm thinking why don't we make an image editor that we can customize the simple UI. Like users choose which sliders and tools to put on the ui, it'll be simple UI with like just 5-10 buttons/sliders/tools, but you van customize it to have basically anything. That way you can simply drag drop tools make new UI and then use it for specific use cases.

Maybe already existing tools have that options. Or maybe we need to make a new one, in that case, it'd be nice if we could just add all different tools in dlls or sth, so that you can only download/keep the tools you use.

[–] jpicture@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's actually a really nice idea.

You can accomplish this with GIMP by removing all the UI panels (which it calls Dockable Dialogues) and tools from the toolbox, and then adding some of them back in. By default it starts off more complicated though, which I think is why a lot of people find it overwhelming to learn.

You've inspired me to do an experiment making a really simple and stripped back GIMP configuration. I can send you the config file if you want and you can let me now what you think.

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Sure, if we can share config like that it could work for many people. I still want to see something that dynamically downloads the shared libraries/dlls for tools you add, but that requires complete rewrite. Maybe we can do it with imagemagick scripts

[–] jpicture@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Check out Shotwell. Its editing functionality sounds exactly like what you're looking for, although it is designed for managing a library of images videos.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Kolorpaint for simple stuff. Gimp for more difficult stuff.

[–] retrolasered@feddit.uk -1 points 1 month ago

$ convert --help