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This thing targets people who started using Photoshop back in the day when it still wasn't a subscription service for basic and mildly advanced image editing ta

This thing targets people who started using Photoshop back in the day when it still wasn't a subscription service for basic and mildly advanced image editing tasks, and who thus grew accustomed to the Photoshop UI. I personally know several such people, some are trying to switch to alternatives (like myself, I'm switching to Affinity Photo), but the others still use the same (sometimes pirated) Photoshop CS3 or CS4 version they have used since forever, because it's more than enough for their needs, and the usual reason why they stick to it is that they know how to get stuff done with the familiar UI. Imitating this basic UI with nearly 100% accuracy is a stroke of genius. Not even Affinity Photo, which is clearly taking lots of ideas from the Photoshop UI as well, comes close to this level of familiarity. Photopea truly feels as if it was Photoshop from 10 years ago, which is exactly the Photoshop that lots of people not working in the graphics industry, where an Adobe subscription is mandatory, love.

agumonkey 8y ago
I used maybe a hundred of different graphical programs(2d,3d, animation, foo) and photoshop still owns up on the ergonomic side. It's not perfect but it's way good enough. Everytime I use another 2d program I suffer.
morganvachon 8y ago
Give Krita a shot. Its UI is much closer to Photoshop than other alternatives, and it's a fully open source project. It's still a bit buggy on Windows but it runs perfectly on every Linux distro I've tried it on. It's a bit overkill for my needs (I do everything I need with Paint.net/Pinta) but it's worth a look.
lunchables 8y ago
This describes me. Started using Photoshop around 4, knew it inside and out. Then, over the years, Photoshop far outgrew me (and my needs). This is a wonderful alternative that probably does 95% of what I need in Photoshop.
- folkrav 8y ago
  Pretty much in a similar case to yours. I started playing with Photoshop with a 5.0 license my dad bought back around 1998, and used that same version for years. I pretty much still use the same features I did back then, and to me all those modern versions makes no difference to my workflow whatsoever. With time I just learned to do things a bit more efficiently like to use adjustment layers instead of destructive transformations, etc. That same 5.0 version would probably still meet the majority of what I would do with Photoshop.
emehrkay 8y ago
I used it a few weeks ago to crop out a picture of Lebron James’daughter’s face to use as a reaction in slack because I didn’t have photoshop or an app capable of doing what I needed on my computer
gcb0 8y ago
Gimp has a photoshop like UI option. though if your OS has decent windown management and tear dow menus (both not an option on osx-cloned gnome3) than you'd be a fool to use it

agumonkey 8y ago

I used maybe a hundred of different graphical programs(2d,3d, animation, foo) and photoshop still owns up on the ergonomic side. It's not perfect but it's way good enough. Everytime I use another 2d program I suffer.

morganvachon 8y ago

Give Krita a shot. Its UI is much closer to Photoshop than other alternatives, and it's a fully open source project. It's still a bit buggy on Windows but it runs perfectly on every Linux distro I've tried it on. It's a bit overkill for my needs (I do everything I need with Paint.net/Pinta) but it's worth a look.

lunchables 8y ago

This describes me. Started using Photoshop around 4, knew it inside and out. Then, over the years, Photoshop far outgrew me (and my needs). This is a wonderful alternative that probably does 95% of what I need in Photoshop.

folkrav 8y ago
Pretty much in a similar case to yours. I started playing with Photoshop with a 5.0 license my dad bought back around 1998, and used that same version for years. I pretty much still use the same features I did back then, and to me all those modern versions makes no difference to my workflow whatsoever. With time I just learned to do things a bit more efficiently like to use adjustment layers instead of destructive transformations, etc. That same 5.0 version would probably still meet the majority of what I would do with Photoshop.

emehrkay 8y ago

I used it a few weeks ago to crop out a picture of Lebron James’daughter’s face to use as a reaction in slack because I didn’t have photoshop or an app capable of doing what I needed on my computer

gcb0 8y ago

Gimp has a photoshop like UI option. though if your OS has decent windown management and tear dow menus (both not an option on osx-cloned gnome3) than you'd be a fool to use it