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Photoshop was a big one that I missed, until someone posted their self-made online editor to reddit: https://www.photopea.com/ https://www.photopea.com/ I'm no

Photoshop was a big one that I missed, until someone posted their self-made online editor to reddit: https://www.photopea.com/ https://www.photopea.com/ I'm not sure what modern photoshop looks like, but the interface is completely familiar to me as a former CS2 user. While Photopea is online, its completely satisfactory for small editing tasks that I need to do. Only gripe is that saving massive pngs with 100% quality causes the site to freeze

anon_cow1111 6y ago
>Only gripe is that saving massive pngs with 100% quality causes the site to freeze Png or jpg? Pngs shouldn't have a quality % level given it's a lossless format. If the site is freezing while it's trying to compress the image, you may have better luck saving in a clunky format like bmp and using a local program to compress it later. Hard to tell what issues can arise from trying to do cpu-intensive tasks in a JS browser app.
- xref 6y ago
  They’re probably referring to png compression level. All levels are lossless it’s just about how long it takes to encode/decode and resulting file size. Actual image quality is identical (which can be verified via hashing the decoded images)
ptero 6y ago
Photoshop is the main reason I still have a Windows boot on my home desktop. I wish Linux had a comparable alternative to Photoshop (for which I would gladly pay a sum comparable to what I paid Adobe). Any time I tried Gimp or something similar I really missed the clean visual UI of CS, ability to accurately work with at least 16-bit color and support for printing large files (say, 17x40" panoramas) without killing my workstation.
- RMPR 6y ago
  What about Krita?
  - ptero 6y ago
    I have not tried Krita yet. It seemed to be geared to artists drawing / creating images, where my main (in fact only) use case is enhancement of my DSLR or phone-captured photos. That said, Krita is on my "to try sometime" list.
- inshadows 6y ago
  Didn't Google sponsor some work to run Photoshop under Wine? That's ages ago, so it probably doesn't apply to modern Adobe stuff, but sitll, I'm curious, can't you use Wine for that? Not saying it's silver bullet, but usually popular programs gets love from Wine contributors. Sadly, Richard Burns Rally is not that popular. :(

anon_cow1111 6y ago

>Only gripe is that saving massive pngs with 100% quality causes the site to freeze Png or jpg? Pngs shouldn't have a quality % level given it's a lossless format. If the site is freezing while it's trying to compress the image, you may have better luck saving in a clunky format like bmp and using a local program to compress it later. Hard to tell what issues can arise from trying to do cpu-intensive tasks in a JS browser app.

xref 6y ago
They’re probably referring to png compression level. All levels are lossless it’s just about how long it takes to encode/decode and resulting file size. Actual image quality is identical (which can be verified via hashing the decoded images)

ptero 6y ago

Photoshop is the main reason I still have a Windows boot on my home desktop. I wish Linux had a comparable alternative to Photoshop (for which I would gladly pay a sum comparable to what I paid Adobe). Any time I tried Gimp or something similar I really missed the clean visual UI of CS, ability to accurately work with at least 16-bit color and support for printing large files (say, 17x40" panoramas) without killing my workstation.

RMPR 6y ago
What about Krita?
- ptero 6y ago
  I have not tried Krita yet. It seemed to be geared to artists drawing / creating images, where my main (in fact only) use case is enhancement of my DSLR or phone-captured photos. That said, Krita is on my "to try sometime" list.
inshadows 6y ago
Didn't Google sponsor some work to run Photoshop under Wine? That's ages ago, so it probably doesn't apply to modern Adobe stuff, but sitll, I'm curious, can't you use Wine for that? Not saying it's silver bullet, but usually popular programs gets love from Wine contributors. Sadly, Richard Burns Rally is not that popular. :(