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Hats off for developing such an amazing tool. The question not asked is "Why create another image editing tool on Linux?". When 'competing' with a gorilla like
by sfc32 7y ago
Hats off for developing such an amazing tool. The question not asked is "Why create another image editing tool on Linux?". When 'competing' with a gorilla like Photoshop, perhaps extending / rewriting Gimp would be a more effective way to produce a high quality tool, instead of fracturing the community.
Not a criticism of the efforts, just the focus. It would be really great to have a FOSS alternative to the increasingly expensive and locking-in Adobe suite.
- errantspark 7y agoHonestly because this person is incorrect in their supposition that Krita competes with Photoshop. Gimp competes with Photoshop (extremely poorly), Krita is OSS Corel Painter and it's great at that. They're all image editing tools sure, but the focus is different.
- hellozee 7y agoI never said Krita is competing with Photoshop, I just compared them, take a look at the last rant :D
- grawprog 7y agoJust curious, because i've never really understood, I see this a lot without much explanation. I've used gimp for years for various image and photo things and haven't used Photoshop since the mid 2000's, what's so bad about gimp in comparison, other than the ui(which to me seems much the same as old versions of photoshop), to Photoshop?
- hellozee 7y agoNo non destructive editing available is one of the biggest drawbacks
- imglorp 7y agoIsn't that what layers are for?
- hellozee 7y agoTake an example you scaled down and 1000x1000px image to 100x100px and then scaled it up back to 1000x1000px. In the process you lost a lot of info on the image. PS solves that by using Smart Objects, Krita by Transform Masks, GIMP? Nope
- cannedslime 7y agoTo be fair, photoshop didnt always do this. I still use CS2 and it definetely doesn't work like you describe. I'd say that GIMP is somewhat comparable to the feature set of CS2, though I admit I havent used gimp much.
- hellozee 7y agoSmart Objects were introduced in CS2, so no, :)
- cannedslime 7y agoAh you are right. It gives the illusion of quality loss until you commit the change, and then it looks crisp again.
- thedaemon 7y agoObviously you should loose all of your details. You shouldn't be doing this at any rate.
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- hellozee 7y agoKrita started as an image editing tool, but now it is tool which you you would use for creating stuff from scratch, and not mainly for editing Photos or manipulating images, :D
- thrower123 7y agoIf Gimp wasn't completely terrible, despite the decades of work that's been put into it, I'd give that some weight. But it's just not good, and it's not going to be. Better to start over than keep throwing good money after bad.
- prox 7y agoI tried Gimp but from an UX Perspective it is just a horrible mess. Its ways are so idiosyncratic its unbelievable. Power to those who use it, but it is hardly surprising that it never gained traction in the graphics industry. Affinity Photo is the first true contender; It optimizes for reliable and recognizable workflow, and the devs are committing to keeping it lean. I wish there was an foss alternative, but there isn’t. I would love to see an app build around image editing like Blender is doing for 3d.
- trynewideas 7y agoI'd love to see Blender build around its own image editing the way Blender is doing for 3D.