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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2025 23:25:00 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 3 Jan 2025 07:42:48 -0500, -hh wrote:

> A lot of the sophistication (& differentiation) in PS was through its
> use of Layers, particularly for making selective exposure adjustments.

All very well if you have a dozen or two dozen images to deal with, but 
what if you have a thousand?

This is where command-line/scriptable tools like ImageMagick/
GraphicsMagick come into their own. Also the Python scriptability of GIMP, 
Inkscape etc can be helpful.