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New to Gimp - Bolothephotographer - 11-15-2025
I'm an Affinity Photo user, or at least I have been for the past couple of years but they've recently made everything free and kinda ruined its attraction in the process.
You'd think that making the entire suite free would be an incredible gift and I suppose it is but I liked the fact that I owned it and therefore had some kind of rights and respect but their new terms and conditions show otherwise.
Anyway, all that aside. If i'm going to get something for free, I may as well go the Gimp route. It's a community thing and not a top down dictatorship like Canva is offering.
So I have a question. How easy is it to migrate from Affinity Photo to Gimp? What can I expect to discover in the process and what differences do I need to get my head around in order to understand this "alien" environment?
I was only ever really a basic user of Affinity Photo. I learnt what I needed to and would occasionally pick up new tricks and methods and was happy with my pace of learning. In fact, i'd not have bothered with looking elsewhere if it wasn't for Canva's ungainly "herding" methods.
One of my main interests has been making large panoramas. I understand that Gimp isn't really the right vehicle for that, so i'm also wanting to learn Hugin. Between the two, it should cover pretty much anything I want to do.
I don't like being corralled in a direction I don't want to take, so it's time to switch for good.
Thoughts and replies welcome. I haven't started the tutorial phase yet, well at least not in earnest so if anyone has any particularly useful recommendations, bring it on!
RE: New to Gimp - rich2005 - 11-15-2025
Quote:...snip...One of my main interests has been making large panoramas. I understand that Gimp isn't really the right vehicle for that, so i'm also wanting to learn Hugin. Between the two, it should cover pretty much anything I want to do.
The plugin for Gimp 3 is here: https://github.com/akkana/gimp-plugins/blob/master/gimp3/pandora.py If it is the same as the Gimp 2.10 version, blending is just overlay with layermasks, very hands on and simple.
Hugin is a good tool, https://hugin.sourceforge.io/ plenty tutorials around.
One that you might want to look at is XPano https://krupkat.github.io/xpano/ There is a Windows version ( Windows Store). This the linux appimage and some photos pulled out of my archive.
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