bobbarber

Yes, Scribus for desktop publishing and Cinelerra for video.

I feel the need to post that Gimp's current development version, 2.9, works in 16 and 32 bit color per channel. It will soon be released as 2.10, with 16 and 32 bit color in the stable version.

It...

While I sympathize with all of the anguish here, I see this debate as being about open-source software. The argument for open-source software all along has been without it, your ability to work, to...

Skyglider, I don't know what you tried to do in Gimp, but a layer mask with a gradient fill in Gimp, for example to imitate an ND grad filter, is pretty basic stuff. You just create a layer mask...

@Fave Photog

Many people's files, projects, etc. are in proprietary Adobe format, and not accessible to other programs. If you save your files in formats other than PSD, etc., that doesn't apply...

Hi Earthlight, What you're waiting for is full implementation of the GEGL library in Gimp. Once you see the buzzword "GEGL" in the stable version of Gimp, you will know that you have 16-bit...

I'm with you on the 8-bit thing. The bottleneck in I.Q. is the printers anyway. You have to trust that they faithfully reproduce those wonderful 16-bit tones you can pull out of your raw file. Not....

I'd be all for this too. I like dpreview, and I like Linux/GNU. I've used Gimp (and Debian and other GNU programs) for 10+ years. I'm not a guru, but I definitely know my way around Gimp. There is...

I've been using Gimp for years. It has historically been 8-bit, but current development versions support 16 and 32 bits in each channel. You can download and use the development versions, but they...

Well, they break into your computer anyway.

oklaphotog,

I'm not sure about everything you're saying, but you can certainly create a soft light layer in Gimp, and it be 50% gray or whatever else you would like.

I don't know about Photoshop...

To each their own.

UFRaw is seamlessly integrated with Gimp on my computer. If I open a raw file in Gimp, whether from within Gimp itself, or by right-clicking on a file icon and choosing "Open...

You might want to try Gimp. Layers and layer masks are an integral part of working with photos in Gimp. There's not much you can do in Photoshop that you can't do in Gimp.

You might want to try Gimp. Layers and layer masks are an integral part of working with photos in Gimp. There's not much you can do in Photoshop that you can't do in Gimp.

Edit: Imagemagick also...

It is not true that Gimp is only 8-bit.

Unstable (development) versions of Gimp as of 2012 support 16 and 32 bits per channel. This reflects the integration of GEGL into Gimp. The goal is to have...

It is not true that Gimp is only 8-bit.

Unstable (development) versions of Gimp as of 2012 support 16 and 32 bits per channel. This reflects the integration of GEGL into Gimp. The goal is to have...

Raw files can be opened in many free programs, based on Dave Coffin's dcraw command line utility.

I use UFRaw, others prefer Rawtherapee, and there are many others.

Onlooker,

You're wrong. New gimp builds are 16 and 32 bits per channel.

Look, Adobe sucks for doing this, but you are spreading misinformation.

Many, many, MANY programs open DNG files without complaining. You don't need Photoshop. If you stop using Photoshop, you can...

One word-wrong.

New versions of Gimp work in 16 and 32 bits per channel.

Cinepaint has done that for a long time.

I hope this helps.