As much as gimp bugs me, I do play with it occasionally and dream one day of being able to squeeze everything out of it that it can do. check out gimp magazine

As much as gimp bugs me, I do play with it occasionally and dream one day of being able to squeeze everything out of it that it can do. check out gimp magazine, which is a good window into what regular power users manage to achieve with it. http://gimpmagazine.org/ http://gimpmagazine.org/ I learned about the GMIC filters from reading it. Also learned there's an online image filtering app from the same creators, which is pretty cool - https://gmicol.greyc.fr/ https://gmicol.greyc.fr/