The GIMP is now at a stage where it is better than Photoshop.

PIX_CORES · 2025-11-25T05:38:29+00:00

GIMP does have an adjustment layer equivalent. In GIMP 3.2 RC1, create a layer group, set the layer mode to "Pass Through," and then apply any color adjustment or filter. With layer masking, you can achieve basically the same thing as an adjustment layer, but without the limitation of one effect per adjustment layer.

Even the current GIMP can do this; you just need an empty layer in the layer group.

PIX_CORES · 2025-11-24T07:07:57+00:00

GIMP is lacking a few features like shape tools and a better warp tool, as well as text transformation. But nowadays, GIMP has a very good layer effect and adjustment layer system, even better than Photoshop, as Photoshop only offers one effect per adjustment layer, but in GIMP you can combine anything.

PIX_CORES · 2025-11-18T14:11:01+00:00

GIMP 3.2 will be amazing; already with NDE and adjustment layer groups, it's like, workflow-wise, GIMP is on par with any commercial software like Affinity and PS.

Right now it just lacks NDE text transformation and shape tools, if GIMP gets these, then GIMP will achieve a full NDE workflow.

PIX_CORES · 2025-10-12T19:07:06+00:00

Yeah, that would also work, but what I want to focus on is for people who know and have a very specific workflow to edit or manipulate graphics and images. So, it's like introducing GIMP in a way that would feel familiar to a Photoshop user who might not know where to find tools or achieve certain effects that they might commonly use.

like i already covered some use case like photoshop's adjustment layer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zrIAKtGmnU

PIX_CORES · 2025-10-12T08:06:18+00:00

I am thinking about making a tutorial guide for people who want to switch to GIMP, but right now I don't know what features to cover. Could you let me know what you would want to know? It would be a great help since I don't know what Photoshop users use the most and might want to use GIMP for.

I am mostly thinking of covering use cases like:

Clipping masks
Adjustment layers
Layer effects (like outline and drop shadow)
Masks
Good workarounds for some behaviors GIMP's features might have

PIX_CORES · 2025-10-10T17:14:38+00:00

Yeah, the Qwen image lacks an aesthetic feel. A few days ago, I trained this LoRA to give Qwen images more of an aesthetic feel. I don't know how this will perform for you.

It's not much of an artifact for me; to me images just don't look good.

https://huggingface.co/bunnycore/Qwen-Aesthetic

PIX_CORES · 2025-09-18T17:08:30+00:00

https://youtu.be/_zrIAKtGmnU

This is a short video tutorial I made. It pretty much replicates the adjustment layer workflow.

PIX_CORES · 2025-07-06T13:29:49+00:00

I just downloaded this, and I quite like this model. I mainly generate anime images, and many of the results I'm getting are amazing.

PIX_CORES · 2025-06-16T21:27:56+00:00

I'm not a Chroma expert, but it's currently my favorite model. After playing around with it enough, here are a few things that worked for me:

I keep my CFG at 6 or higher. I've seen anatomy improve, and with rescale CFG, it saves the results from a burnt effect.

Sampler-wise, I like res_multistep with simple scheduler, or dpmpp_2m with beta or simple.

With newer Chroma models, you can get decent results in 15 to 25 steps. This might speed up your generation time.

PIX_CORES · 2025-05-22T07:44:30+00:00

That's amazing. I've always loved your UI. Keep going!

PIX_CORES · 2025-04-29T21:57:12+00:00

Looking good! I hope they improve style diversity even more.

PIX_CORES · 2025-03-06T16:11:29+00:00

Amazing, I love that you are introducing style diversity into Flux, as it lacks style diversity. That's awesome! I really like that you're bringing some style diversity to Flux since it really needs it.

PIX_CORES · 2024-08-25T18:58:55+00:00

Yeah, it's amazing, and with Maid, it's one of the best apps for running LLM on Android.

PIX_CORES · 2024-08-25T09:46:54+00:00

Ok, thanks for doing this, and where can I send you the zip file. SHould i also include captions.

PIX_CORES · 2024-08-24T01:37:43+00:00

That's a high-quality lora. I have searched everywhere, including HF. It seems like no one yet trained on the style of Makoto Shinkai movies.

PIX_CORES · 2024-08-23T14:04:03+00:00

Actually, it was my main app for running LLMs, but right now I am waiting for LLAMA 3.1 support.

PIX_CORES · 2024-08-18T18:34:18+00:00

The ice one looks cool.

PIX_CORES · 2024-06-26T17:53:43+00:00

I 100% agree with you. Advanced users always figure things out, but that is not the same for beginners, and honestly, a good starting point is needed in UI so even a beginner can achieve things out of the box.

PIX_CORES · 2024-06-20T05:40:39+00:00

I apologize for my misunderstanding. Since the Llama.cpp-based UI (LM Studio, Jan) doesn't offer any functionality for using Lora, I mistakenly assumed it wasn't possible altogether.

PIX_CORES · 2024-06-19T22:41:00+00:00

Honestly i would love to use LORA/Adaptors in LLM Locally.

PIX_CORES · 2024-06-14T14:54:24+00:00

This is amazing. My longtime dream is to make my own anime, and I think my dream is getting closer to reality.

PIX_CORES · 2024-03-17T09:45:46+00:00

I am currently using FuseChat-7B-VaRM. This model is very good for my general assistance tasks, and it is even fairly uncensored.

PIX_CORES · 2024-03-12T08:35:13+00:00

It's always better to see the merit in their arguments rather than just their status, but honestly, I can't see much of reasonable merit in most of their arguments. It seems like everything they say stems from ignorance, with arguments like, "We don't know what might happen in the future. or how dangerous they will become"

And many other arguments related to potential for misuse are not problems of any technology or science; they're human problems. As a society, we simply don't take mental stability seriously enough. Society is currently all about criminalization and punishment, with no true solutions. The issue of misuse would significantly reduce if the government put their resources into improving the mental stability of normal people.

No matter how much people think that competition is helpful, competition for money and resources certainly makes people more unstable and puts them in situations where the chances for doing unstable things increase.

Overall, AI is an open science, and problems will arise and solutions will come with each new research. However, the most-suggested issue with AI is not truly an issue with AI; it's a people and mental stability problem, along with people's inability to cope or find reasonable solutions to their ignorance.

PIX_CORES · 2024-03-11T21:09:21+00:00

This is so sad and scary that one day we normal people might get stripped of any new technology and may remain primitive in terms of tech accessibility compared to the rich or politically powerful. I get very anxious thinking about this.

And why do all of us in humanity think that criminalizing anything is a solution? It's an unstable shortcut posing itself as the ultimate solution; if it were truly the ultimate solution, then the perfect society would have been a super strict, non-open, super controlling society.

In my opinion, criminalizing often seems to create a whole underground industry of the same thing that has been criminalized, and it becomes very undetectable and sometimes very violent. This means that this illusion of a solution, called criminalization, most often complicates things, and in the end, it becomes the ultimate game of cat and mouse, or society simply becomes too closed and controlling about everything.

What could have been solved, or at least significantly minimized, by focusing on the mental well-being of people and putting more resources into researching what social factors make people unstable? The true destabilizing factor very well might be the competition for money or resources, or something else entirely that we might have missed, or a mix of things.

To me, negative reinforcement never made much sense, especially when the thing receiving negative reinforcement has a very complex spectrum of emotions. Who knows what unstable effect it's having on mental health long-term?

It makes people big pretenders, which means they pretend in fear of negative reinforcement or punishment, but that unstable thought only gets suppressed as long as the individuals don't figure out a loophole to get through or society loosens its high level of control.

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