There is no more 'getting it right the first time' in film photography than there is digital. To paraphrase Ansel Adams when comparing photography to music - 'The negative is the score the print is the performance.' John, do yourself a favour and give up digital photography and take up film photography where you can get it right, first time :/) Gimp: Darktable: Displa圜AL: Edited Augby royfisher Some documentation links (in case you haven't found them already): You may also be interested in Displa圜AL, which is a display calibration application. Version 3.0 had a habit of crashing, locking up, and becoming confused. The current version (3.2.1) is pretty good. I use Darktable much more than Gimp for working with photos. Cropping is a separate operation, though, (as far as I know). Gimp will (frustratingly) 'help' you if you change them in the wrong order. Rescaling and changing the resolution are done with the Image/Scale Image menu selection, and can be done simultaneously there. The big list is handy if you don't already know all the supported formats and extensions. If you want to save in a format that's different from the suggested default, just type in the extension for the new file name (e.g., replace picname.png with picname.jpg). When exporting a file, it isn't necessary to pick a file type from the big list. Gimp's interface is definitely an acquired taste. I find myself using poor old Faststone, which runs under Wine with some peculiarities, such as the Rotate Left & Right tools not working). (I've also installed Raw Therapee and Darktable, with similar bafflement. OK the question - can anyone suggest a strategy for helping me to use this very powerful programme without frustration? Thanks in advance. I could go on - can you use the crop tool to crop and resize to a particular pixel size at the same time as in Photoshop? Even though the original image is a JPEG.

To save as a JPEG you have to use 'Export As.

One example, when using 'Save As' it only seems to save in the native Gimp.

I've installed Gimp 2.10 and have occasionally used it for image editing, but having used Photoshop for many years, and being of an age where learning new tricks is more of a challenge, I nearly always end up tearing my hair out trying to find things in unfamiliar places, or grappling with unfamiliar nomenclature. I recently installed Linux Mint on an oldish laptop, mainly for net surfing, for which it seems excellent.

Using darktable and gimp