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  • Dave@lemmy.nzM
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    Of every tool I’ve encountered the OSS one has been superior or I’ve been able to contribute to make it so.

    LibreOffice is fine but I don’t think you could argue it’s superior. I much prefer working with tables and pivot tables in excel.

    GIMP is great and I prefer it over photoshop but I still think arguments could be made that photoshop is still way ahead of GIMP.

    But for sure there are many FOSS tools that are the leaders in their areas.

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      I much prefer working with tables and pivot tables in excel

      That’s was I was meaning by “familiarity”. The unfamiliar tool is subjectivity worse.

      I shudder to think how much money Adobe pours into Photoshop; but yes, that investment makes for a powerful product, that a free one is almost as good for many users is amazing.

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        That’s was I was meaning by “familiarity”. The unfamiliar tool is subjectivity worse.

        For sure. I should try harder to give it a go, but would probably need to rebuild my stuff from scratch as opening even slightly complex excel files in Calc feels very clunky.

        I shudder to think how much money Adobe pours into Photoshop; but yes, that investment makes for a powerful product, that a free one is almost as good for many users is amazing.

        It is amazing. GIMP is really a posterchild for open source. But I do have trouble with things that are simple in photoshop. I remember trying to cut something out of a picture and have it fill in the background (say, if the rest of the image has trees in the background it should seemlessly continue this into the removed area). It’s possible, but I think I had to find some extension listed in a forum post from 10 years earlier. Photoshops technology has andvanced a lot in 10 years, it would be nice to see more adhancement like this in GIMP.

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          There’s also free AI tools you can use online to automatically cut out people or objects from backgrounds. Saves heaps of time

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            Yeah, but depending on the photo I don’t like uploading my files to online services I’ve never heard of. There’s only a very small number I’d trust, and I’d much prefer offline software.