For example, I recall seeing an inquiry a few years back about whether GIMP’s Mac distribution could be code signed so that it did not have to be exempted from the macOS Gatekeeper security. One issue I’ve noticed with GIMP over the last several years is that they occasionally convey this “open source and everything must be free, or death!” attitude. Take Outside Portraits Inside | Take and Make Great Photography with Gavin Hoey - YouTube Photoshop is a bit pricey for many, that I'm puzzled why GIMP isn't discussed more frequently. What Gavin does in his walk-through is create a composite where he blends a new background into the portrait. There are other open-source, free, raw editors, but I prefer CaptureOne. In my normal workflow I rely on CaptureOne for raw edits, and then I export a TIFF into GIMP as a ProPhotoRGB. I was watching Gavin Hoey (what a personable guy) create a composite image with Photoshop and realized that everything he did was available in GIMP. However, it's open-source, free, extremely well supported and runs on all OS platforms. There is a long list of what it doesn't do, and a long list of what it does do. In combination with G'MIC, it's incredibly powerful for image manipulation. It's a mystery to me that GIMP doesn't get its due attention.

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