Funtions I look for:
- Select image to edit
- Paste images on top of other images
- Doodle (customazible size and color)
- Insert text and variety of fonts
Might be a little overkill for what you’re after, but GIMP has always been excellent for me!
Just cannot get on with it. Have tried a few times over the years.
The UX is abysmal to the point of being user-hostile, the name of the software is an abelist slur, and also has sexual connotations (the founders are aware of both issues with the name, with the latter being the intention behind the name, and explicitly no intentions of addressing the former). There’s just nothing positive about it whatsoever.
Truly a relic of the 90s
Just fork it and make a better UX then (and give it a better name than the current one).
As someone who uses it somewhat regularly… It’s terrible. Apparently the next update is supposed to fix some of the UX issues people have had for years. But they said that last time as well.
I just use Krita now for most stuff. The only thing GIMP does better (or did, I haven’t checked recently) is textboxes. Adding text to images on Krita was a nightmare a few years ago, but maybe they’ve fixed it.
Had the same situation.
At some point I just got used to enough of it that it’s quite functional.
I wish I could change some of the defaults, but for editing it fulfills most of my needs.
GIMP does just about everything you could ever need except basic shapes.
And color management. Useless for photo editing, stuck with 8-bit sRGB.
Seconding this.
Krita’s made so much progress over the years. One of the best FOSS image tools. It might be intended for painting and artists, but it’s just as good at regular image editing.
Inkscape and LibreOffice Draw do all that, but they’re not bitmap editors.
Not much for image tweaking, but maybe xournalppfor the rest?
I mostly use GIMP.
I am also enthusiast about the https://graphite.rs/ project which is working in browser (love it or hate it for that).
Krita is amazing for drawing but may be intimidating.
I like MyPaint that I use as a whiteboard. It is easy to use and convenient
I found pinta useful. It was once forked from paint.net when it was still open source. easy to use
Not open source though.
And it’s a web app which is fairly annoying. Otherwise it’s pretty good.
