I'm perfectly happy with the tools I use when programming.
The tools I use to manipulate images and photos on the other hand... they're big and clunky, force me to use constipated shortcuts, are tedious to install, cannot be run remotely (well, effectively), they crash and aren't that easy for me to extend.
I'm, sort of, working on the opposite problem: I'm tossing a few hours towards a way to manipulate images without the "IDE".
How about things like ImageMagick?[1]
Command line or from a programming language. No IDE at all.
I've used it in the past, and it's useful for batch operations.
The tools I use to manipulate images and photos on the other hand... they're big and clunky, force me to use constipated shortcuts, are tedious to install, cannot be run remotely (well, effectively), they crash and aren't that easy for me to extend.
I'm, sort of, working on the opposite problem: I'm tossing a few hours towards a way to manipulate images without the "IDE".