On my Windows PC it takes GIMP 15 seconds to start and get into a state where I can edit. It loads palettes, initializes and what not, according to the splash screen text. That's too slow, so I never use it for quick image edits like crop, scale or color changes. But that in turn has the effect that I never learn the unusual UI. Which means that for more complex task I avoid it too. Other zero cost tools like the web based Photopea loads super fast and mimics the UI of leading image editing suites. It thus beats GIMP on both quick and easy tasks and more complex tasks.
If it started faster, you still probably would find it a bit unwieldy for crop scale and simple color changes. I wish it did those things better, but on the other hand it seems like it would be appropriate to have a simpler program for quick tasks as well.
And I say this as somebody who rather likes the gimp.
Is there a quick way to copy some bookmarks from one firefox profile to another? Drag and drop from bookmark library popup window (ctrl+shift+o) in profileA to equivalent window in profileB fails.
Is there any AI image generator/editor that is good at creating graphics with transparent background? Nano Banana and some others output a white grey checkered background (fake transparency).
Hey Addend! If you sign up brandimagegen . com, chatGPT image models create graphics w/ transparent backgrounds. You can also just rm backgrounds with my background remover tool.
I am biased on this since I built it and it officially launches on Friday 10/31
Can Immich do search/filter based on both map (geographic area) and time parameters? Through add-ons or search text syntax?
Example 1. Show all photos from this area (draw rectangle on map) from times 22:00 to 00:00.
Example 2. Show all photos from this area (draw rectangle on map) from years 2020 to 2024 in months march to may AND september to october from times 22:00 to 00:00.
In the Immich demo the map view lets me zoom and shows bubbles with the number of photos from an area but I see no way to select an area or bubble to explore just those photos in an album or temporary view. The map view does have a time range option (last N days or date range yyyy-mm-dd to yyyy-mm-dd), but no time of day range or months range.
Search view has advanced options with place dropdowns (country state city) but no map area rectangle option. Also has date range (yyyy-mm-dd to yyyy-mm-dd), but no time of day range or non-contiguous time criteria.
I think a photo viewer could implement the exemplified kind of searches in a slim way through a map view (user draws a rectangle) with sliders (year range, months range, time of day range) that ideally let the user set multiple ranges on one slider (march to may AND september to october). Ideally such combo criteria could then also be bookmarked and searched and the filtered in items could be batch operated on (tag, rename, delete).
I want to be able to do all these same kinds of searches too. Especially layering on searches, like what you said about how the search ideally could be bookmarked and searched on. Like any search result could become a smart album maybe. I’d love to be able to search something like [all photos in the box I drew on the map] and then out of those results [photos in 2021 and 2023] and then out of those results [photos of person x] and out of those results a clip search like [people walking on the beach]. It would also be great to remove photos from the search like [photos in this geographical area] but not [clip search for “yellow lab”].
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