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The existence of GIMP doesn't really make less people use Photoshop. The same is true of Blender and Maya.
by soup10 7y ago
The existence of GIMP doesn't really make less people use Photoshop. The same is true of Blender and Maya.
- creato 7y agoBecause it kind of sucks in comparison. Epic is trying to make Blender better.
- soup10 7y agoAs a free open source project blender is always going to be playing catch-up with Maya selling 1K+ licences unless the development is severely mismanaged.
- fsloth 7y agoDepends by what you mean by catchup? Complete feature parity hardly is the goal of Blender project so I’m not sure how to figure out what exactly constitutes the feature disparity that should be caught up by blender. One view to look at it is that polygon based modeling, animation and material authoring can be done using a finite feature set, and once that feature set is complete, further enhancements are nice to have, but not critical.
- BubRoss 7y ago> One view to look at it is that polygon based modeling, animation and material authoring can be done using a finite feature set, and once that feature set is complete, further enhancements are nice to have, but not critical. This is definitely true, if the interface is refined. In this respect, blender doesn't just not hit the bullseye, it's as if someone held the arrow and shot the bow straight in the air.
- meruru 7y agoBecause GIMP falls short as a Photoshop replacement, but there are plenty of people using Krita instead of Photoshop.
- StavrosK 7y agoI very much doubt that, given that Krita is an Illustrator competitor.
- jwagenet 7y agoNot really. Krita and Gimp are raster authoring tools that compete with Photoshop, though all 3 support vectors. Illustrator is a vector authoring tool that Inkscape competes with.
- StavrosK 7y agoHmm, I'm going to have to check it out again. I was under the impression that it's mostly for vector authoring, thanks.
- majewsky 7y agoKrita used to be a jack-of-all-trades painting program for the first few years of its existence. At some point, the devs figured out that they can get people to fund development more effectively when they focus on one usecase (digital painting w/ tablet) and make that really solid.
- StavrosK 7y agoAh, that's why I thought it was a competitor to Illustrator. What I use Photoshop for is photography, which sounds like it's not Krita's main use case.
- aloisdg 7y agoThe most popular Illustrator alternative is Inkscape.