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by TeMPOraL 1254 days ago
> node based compositor

Whatever that is.

Based on replies in the subthread, I understand you mean that this obviously has been done many times before, and the authors didn't know, based on the naming. But let me offer a different perspective.

Gimel Studio looks exactly like what I was searching for. If I found out about it a month ago, I would hold off upgrading Affinity Photo to their newly released version 2, to get more layer-based non-destructive editing features, because Photoshop-style layer-based interface sucks (mostly it's too twiddly and requires too much high-precision mouse operations on a tiny side panel). I actually briefly looked for some 2D node-based image editors, and didn't find any. "Node based compositor" sounds like something from Blender or the film industry, so despite sort of being aware of this, it never occurred to me to search in this space.

Or, in short: for people like me, who are looking for software competing with GIMP, Photoshop, Affinity or Paint.NET, and not Blender or Houdini or whatever else VFX people use, "2D image editor" is obviously meaningful, "compositor" is not.