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unlikely, while a certainly poewrful piece of software that can do much of what photoshop can (in the 2D realm), it has no support for 3D work, real vector supp

by cobalt 10y ago

unlikely, while a certainly poewrful piece of software that can do much of what photoshop can (in the 2D realm), it has no support for 3D work, real vector support, active filters (this is a huge one in traditional 2D work, esp icons/logos)

maweki 10y ago
The one feature that breaks it for me for professional work is that filters happen to a layer instead of being attached to them an are able to be changed on a whim. It's impossible to do any real work if you have to render and re-render every shadow on every text and object when its size changes. I think I could do without everything else but that.
- kuschku 10y ago
  That’s why I love Krita so much – it can do all those things, can do animation, and, partially, already 3D, too.
- erlehmann_ 10y ago
  For this reason I use Inkscape for most things I used GIMP for in the past.
- damptowel 10y ago
  Photoshop has 'smart filters' and 'smart objects' which do exactly what you describe.
- goatface 10y ago
  The work you might have heard about GEGL - is all about providing foundations for such non-destructive editing. The highlighted split-view / curtain preview in the blog post is implemented using these new capabilities provided by GEGL. Adding new features that cement themselves as new things in the file format is part of GIMPs roadmap after GIMP-2.10 / 3.0. 2.10 / 3.0 are aiming to provide the same functionality that GIMP-2.6 / 2.8 provided but with GEGL as the core and thus higher bitdepth.
blub 10y ago
Is this mandatory nowadays? I mean it's nice that PS (and even Pixelmator and Affinity) have that, but I did design work many years ago and managed fine. Sure it will be more inconvenient, but it's doable.
- 2muchcoffeeman 10y ago
  People did design work without any of these digital tools before. Give people better tools and it's hard to go back. Can you imagine writing a large piece of software without autocomplete or syntax highlighting these days?
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damptowel 10y ago
This is simply not true, Photoshop does have all those features!

by cobalt 10y ago

maweki 10y ago

The one feature that breaks it for me for professional work is that filters happen to a layer instead of being attached to them an are able to be changed on a whim. It's impossible to do any real work if you have to render and re-render every shadow on every text and object when its size changes. I think I could do without everything else but that.

kuschku 10y ago
That’s why I love Krita so much – it can do all those things, can do animation, and, partially, already 3D, too.
erlehmann_ 10y ago
For this reason I use Inkscape for most things I used GIMP for in the past.
damptowel 10y ago
Photoshop has 'smart filters' and 'smart objects' which do exactly what you describe.
goatface 10y ago
The work you might have heard about GEGL - is all about providing foundations for such non-destructive editing. The highlighted split-view / curtain preview in the blog post is implemented using these new capabilities provided by GEGL. Adding new features that cement themselves as new things in the file format is part of GIMPs roadmap after GIMP-2.10 / 3.0. 2.10 / 3.0 are aiming to provide the same functionality that GIMP-2.6 / 2.8 provided but with GEGL as the core and thus higher bitdepth.

blub 10y ago

Is this mandatory nowadays? I mean it's nice that PS (and even Pixelmator and Affinity) have that, but I did design work many years ago and managed fine. Sure it will be more inconvenient, but it's doable.

2muchcoffeeman 10y ago
People did design work without any of these digital tools before. Give people better tools and it's hard to go back. Can you imagine writing a large piece of software without autocomplete or syntax highlighting these days?
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damptowel 10y ago

This is simply not true, Photoshop does have all those features!