Quote Originally Posted by Sam101 View Post
Not really. It is still destructive. Gimp scripts that are important to me don't emulate PS scripts. Plugins like the Felimage noise generator, and scripts like those RobA has here on this forum. More importantly, Gimp scripts are easy to open and change exactly the way I need.

If I understand correctly, Elements doesn't even have a curves adjustment, either as a non-destructive adjustment or just a straight curves adjustment. That alone is too much of a handicap. Photoshop CS2 is better than Elements, in my opinion. Gimp 2.10 has higher bit depth, and if I understand correctly, Elements is generally stuck at 8 bit. That's sort of breaks Elements for me at least.
Oof...count this as another thing I had never heard of. I looked up a tutorial...seems pretty straightforward on what it does, but now I have the same question as before....what's the typical application for this in mapmaking? Why would you want to lighten or darken a specific part of the map?