[RESPONDED] Photo editing on Linux does not work with almost any application

Framework Laptop 13 Linux
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Starting situation:
Frame.work 13” laptop with AMD Ryzen 5 7640U
Fedora 40 (workstation edition) with GNOME desktop environment

Hello everyone,
I’m experiencing a rather strange problem which I can’t find a solution of when editing photos with several of the most commons dedicated programs (like “GNOME Photos” and “Pix”).
Despite the fact that I go to interact with the “toggles” that allow me to change exposure, contrast, saturation, etc. these do not go to apply changes to the photos, but simply remain as they are.
Since I am in the Wayland environment, I tried changing it to Xorg, but it did not work.

I thank in advance anyone who wants to help me find a solution :blush:

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Are you able to boot to a Live CD of some other LINUX Distro and then use that to test out the same graphic design apps?

If not a Live CD, then install some other distro on a USB flash drive and boot off of that.

The reason for these tests is so that you can compare. It’s even better if you can take the same Live CD or USB flash drive and put it in a totally different Intel or AMD PC and test it there. If it works on totally different hardware than the Framework Laptop, then you have some indication it is the Framework Laptop (not at all likely that this will happen, of course).

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Hi @Daniel_Grasso ,

just clarifying you the changes on these photos aren’t saved is what you are saying?
and have you tried GIMP?

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I apologize in advance for not getting back to you but several personal causes prevented me from proceeding previously to attempting to solve the problem…

Finally, it seems to me that the bug was (and continues to be) confined to certain applications such as Pix, Photos from KDE, Photos from Gnome, etc…

Shotwell strangely works, and I have no problem making more “complete” photo edits with programs such as Darktable.

I wonder where the problem may be

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Chances are high that the various apps you mention all use the same underlying library and that the bug is in that library, whatever it is.

Try GIMP as Loell_Framework suggested. Also try Krita. Both are free open source powerful photo editors.

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The odd thing is that even when I tried the same programs with live CDs of different OSes (like Ubuntu or Linux Mint), they didn’t work properly in the same way as they do on my main system.

Thank you very much for the suggestions, but I’m quite happy with Darktable now, as I’m getting more into amateur photography, and so far everything has worked very well as expected.

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The changes don’t apply in real time to the photos when I move the sliders for adjusting parameters like contrast or saturation. Even when exporting the photos with the sliders in random positions, the changes don’t take effect, so I think the problem might be related to the processes that handle the photo modifications.