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Figma (which is web-based) is a great alternative to Adobe Illustrator (at least for UI design). Is there something web-based that's a good equivalent for Phot

by tpmx 6y ago

Figma (which is web-based) is a great alternative to Adobe Illustrator (at least for UI design). Is there something web-based that's a good equivalent for Photoshop? I tried https://pixlr.com/ https://pixlr.com/ the other day. Is that the best one one in this genre?

bitslayer 6y ago
https://www.photopea.com/ https://www.photopea.com/ is similar to pixlr. I prefer it.
- tpmx 6y ago
  At first sight: It borrows a lot more from PS (including the complexity) compared to Pixlr, which seems like it wants to be a mix of Photoshop and Illustrator, but simplified like Figma. Thanks!
HellDunkel 6y ago
Maybe for minimalistic UI design. But even there i would rather not want to work with a web tool (graphics is compute hungry). For graphics design and artwork i‘d rather go with Affinity Designer.
- tpmx 6y ago
  My impression is that many/most UI graphics designers migrated to the web based Figma because it's a lot faster than the native Illustrator. A bunch of them went there via the mac-only Sketch. Shame on Adobe. Affinity Designer (and Sketch) is indeed insanely fast compared to Illustrator, but it's also kind of isolated - the collab story is a lot stronger with Figma.
atoav 6y ago
As someone who uses Photoshop since version 6, I use both Gimp and Krita at work (because I use Linux there). Both are really quite usable and worth a look.
- leeoniya 6y ago
  yesterday i ran into the fact that gimp has zero support for non-destructive editing (e.g. adjustment layers) AFAIK, which makes it a non-starter for many many cases. https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#when-will-gimp-support-any-kind-of-non-destructive-editing-like-adjustment-layers-layer-filters-andor-full-blown-node-based-editing https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#when-will-gimp-suppor...
  - marcodiego 6y ago
    Not a professional myself, but lack of non-destructive editing is the reason I don't mention GIMP when talking to professionals. NDE can't come soon enough.

by tpmx 6y ago

bitslayer 6y ago

https://www.photopea.com/ https://www.photopea.com/ is similar to pixlr. I prefer it.

tpmx 6y ago
At first sight: It borrows a lot more from PS (including the complexity) compared to Pixlr, which seems like it wants to be a mix of Photoshop and Illustrator, but simplified like Figma. Thanks!

HellDunkel 6y ago

Maybe for minimalistic UI design. But even there i would rather not want to work with a web tool (graphics is compute hungry). For graphics design and artwork i‘d rather go with Affinity Designer.

tpmx 6y ago
My impression is that many/most UI graphics designers migrated to the web based Figma because it's a lot faster than the native Illustrator. A bunch of them went there via the mac-only Sketch. Shame on Adobe. Affinity Designer (and Sketch) is indeed insanely fast compared to Illustrator, but it's also kind of isolated - the collab story is a lot stronger with Figma.

atoav 6y ago

As someone who uses Photoshop since version 6, I use both Gimp and Krita at work (because I use Linux there). Both are really quite usable and worth a look.

leeoniya 6y ago
yesterday i ran into the fact that gimp has zero support for non-destructive editing (e.g. adjustment layers) AFAIK, which makes it a non-starter for many many cases. https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#when-will-gimp-support-any-kind-of-non-destructive-editing-like-adjustment-layers-layer-filters-andor-full-blown-node-based-editing https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#when-will-gimp-suppor...
- marcodiego 6y ago
  Not a professional myself, but lack of non-destructive editing is the reason I don't mention GIMP when talking to professionals. NDE can't come soon enough.