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Affinity already has great Photoshop and Illustrator alternatives: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/ https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/ The opportunity with Pho
by jasonsync 9y ago
Affinity already has great Photoshop and Illustrator alternatives:
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/ https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/
The opportunity with Photoshop may not be to create another Photoshop clone, or add more features, but rather create smaller, specialized editing apps, that each target a subset of the Photoshop user-base, with perhaps less features.
Look at how Adobe Lightroom cherry picked a few Photoshop and Bridge components, to create a more specialized app that does a specialized job that Photoshop might have done in the past.
Or how Adobe's iPad Pro apps again deliver just a small subset of the total available features from their parent apps, making them more specialized for specific use-cases.
Photoshop's massive fragmented user base is ripe for the pickin' for sure. Could you tear down Gimp like that? Or would it be better to start from scratch?
- Nullabillity 9y agoWhere is the source code or even just Linux binaries? Otherwise Affinity isn't really relevant when discussing GIMP.
- rgbrenner 9y agowasnt the question about replacing Photoshop? Hate to break it to you, but not one person who uses photoshop uses Linux.
- iaml 9y ago>but not one person who uses photoshop uses Linux Not true: I use photoshop (albeit, not professionally) and have a subscription for it, but am writing this from linux. Dualboot exists, you know.
- H1Supreme 9y agoThat's absurd.
- rgbrenner 9y agoFYI Photoshop doesn't work on Linux.. so not so much absurd, as factual
- cacarr 9y agoPS CS6 runs well in WINE.
- rgbrenner 9y agoYou're technically right But I would still say Linux support isn't what's holding back any photoshop replacement
- cookiecaper 9y agoAnd iirc, Google sponsored the patchset that allowed CS6 to run on it. So someone out there wants Photoshop to work on Linux, and is even willing to pay for it.