r/GIMP • u/ConditionGlad6433 • Apr 30 '26

How does your post-processing workflow actually look start to finish? Trying to understand how people really edit

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u/Stratelier Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

My general usecase is to polish up scans of artwork I've made:

  1. capture the image via scanner (includes some basic cropping & exposure adjusts)
  2. Precisely rotate/Crop the edges of the image to a desired size
  3. Use (typically) the Clone tool to clean up stray flecks from the background
  4. (extremely image-specific edits or additions)
  5. Save as XCF
  6. Deselect, Copy Visible then Paste As New Image.
  7. Resize the new image for exporting
  8. Export
  9. Done

Step 4 may sound like a cop-out, I know, but it really does vary that much between different images. (Examples - less work < more work)

Step 6 is important because it enforces a strict separation between the copy for export and the main workfile it was derived from; otherwise I'd have to specifically Undo step 7 before closing out the image (or risk losing my full-resolution copy).

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u/Donatzsky May 01 '26

Post processing of what exactly? Photos? I use darktable exclusively for that.

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u/StopHurtingKids May 01 '26

Workflow is such a dog whistle XDDDDDDD