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Or better yet, an open source alternative. I like both GIMP and Krita. The problem with piracy is that it still ends up with more people knowing the proprietar
by Shared404 6y ago
Or better yet, an open source alternative. I like both GIMP and Krita.
The problem with piracy is that it still ends up with more people knowing the proprietary software, and thus helps it keep the position cemented.
- Grakel 6y agoPhotopea.com is exactly like photoshop, it's free, web based or download!
- Shared404 6y agoThat's definitely a good choice for those used to Photoshop, I can barely use PS now, so it's probably not a good fit for me. Anything to pull from PS's dominance is good though!
- mjrpes 6y agoThis is pretty amazing, so glad you posted it. It has layer blending options and shadow/highlights, two feature I can't live without and are often missing in free editors. The menus are exactly like photoshop. And finally an API that lets you save/load PSD/images to and from cloud storage.
- Grakel 6y agoYeah it's one guy's project, and he is a monster. Check out the reddit AMA if you get a chance.
- noobermin 6y agoI mean this is the same trap, one day the website won't be around, then what will you do?
- claudeganon 6y agoIt can be run offline. I’m sure there are already archives of the whole thing floating around.
- canistel 6y agoMy notions might be outdated, but doesn't GIMP still lack CMYK support, which is sort of the default in the printing world?
- Shared404 6y agoNo idea. I think I heard somewhere that it supports it now, but I barely use GIMP, and definitely don't print anything I use with it. Most of what I do I use Krita or more obscure tools for.
- cheeze 6y agoGIMP is great for a lot of stuff, but it's like comparing the usability of FreeBSD to ios
- gspr 6y agoYou mean it's far more usable for a lot of tasks?
- Shared404 6y agoBut less polished. It does seem like a good analogy.
- pessimizer 6y agoGIMP is easy, the problem is CMYK.
- viraptor 6y agoIt's not a proper CMYK support - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GIMP/CMYK_support#About_CMYK_color_and_Gimp https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GIMP/CMYK_support#About... You can do separation and editing from there.
- skohan 6y agoI have tried to use GIMP, but in my experience the UI is just so unintuitive and hard to use.
- ed25519FUUU 6y agoI tried to use gimp and I really wanted to like it, but I can’t. It’s clumsy and looks like death. I’d rather pay for something more polished.
- jimmaswell 6y agoI don't get this. I've used GIMP and Phptoshop and the UI differences are trivial.
- skohan 6y agoReally? To give just one example, if I press cmd-T in PS, I go into an editing mode where I can translate, rotate, and scale a layer with intuitive, contextual mouse controls for each. With GIMP it's broken up into separate commands. I didn't spend so much time with it, but with PS things got guessable very quickly, where with GIMP it felt like the features are just stuffed in there wherever they can fit.
- nohliew1teideez 6y agoThat proves the point, you simply don't know how to use Gimp yet. It is called "Unified Transform", available on the default toolbar or by pressing "shift-t". So the difference is literally pressing shift instead of control, a trivial difference by any standard, and reconfigurable as well.
- skohan 6y agoYes it does prove the point. So if I look at these docs[0], this tool, not only does it do translate/rotate/scale, which are the most fundamental image transformations in 2D editing, but it also does shearing and perspective transformations which are rarely used by comparison. This tool was clearly designed from an implementation-driven perspective (just put all the affine transformations in one place) rather than a UX driven perspective (no designer places these tools together conceptually). On top of that, this tool still sits along side other single purpose tools for scaling and rotating, which are the first results if you search "how to rotate in GIMP", so why should I even expect this tool to exist? This is not intuitive UX which is "trivially different" to PS, this is a mess which can only be learned through laborious trial and error, or reading the documentation like a book. [0]:https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/gimp-tool-unified-transform.html https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/gimp-tool-unified-transform.ht...