Well, the same thing applies to GIMP. I do a lot with gimp, there’s some stuff it does better that PS. You still wind up losing image quality on every save because of how jpeg compression works, so just work with tif until you’re finished making your edits, then export as jpeg. That way you get max quality + small files. 16 vs. 8 bit has less to do with it than does lossy jpeg compression.
