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Originally Posted by troypiggo
I am a huge supporter of Gimp. I used it for years before buying PS and had always said that for the amateur, it's more than enough. There isn't much you can do in PS that you can't do in Gimp.
Until I started trying to process astro-images. We stretch the histogram so much doing what we do, that Gimp's 8 bit editing loses too much data. This is where PS's 16 bit editing does what Gimp can't. but that's a pretty specific case, although prevalent here on IIS obviously.
Still, for normal amateur image editing, I reckon Gimp is more than enough for most users in most mainstream/common applications.
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Exactly...it's what I use myself.
Although I believe they maybe bringing out a version with 16bit editing. Maybe rumour, but you never know with the open source community.