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Why would they? Companies don’t need an alternative to Adobe. The licensing costs are a drop in the bucket. Would it be nice to have? Sure. But there are tons

by dagmx 4y ago

Why would they? Companies don’t need an alternative to Adobe. The licensing costs are a drop in the bucket. Would it be nice to have? Sure. But there are tons of alternatives to Photoshop that just don’t compete on market share, despite photoshop lagging behind in many areas. If companies were backing an OSS editor though, Krita is by far more favoured by professional creatives. It’s more familiar coming from Photoshop, has better extensibility+Python scripting+Qt which is great for pipelines and has a much better handling of color science and other features important for professionals.

prokoudine 4y ago
> Krita... has better extensibility Really? How? :)
- Eduard 4y ago
  > Companies don’t need an alternative to Adobe. The licensing costs are a drop in the bucket. You are ignoring non-profits and countries foreign to you.
  - dagmx 4y ago
    No I’m not because Adobe has pricing structures for non-profits and other markets. In the context of this discussion, the question was why companies aren’t funding GIMP development, and the ones that can’t afford a $20/mo aren’t the ones who would be funding development anyway. Yes, of course there’s a market for free stuff. But the price of admission into the existing paid for products is low enough that there’s little motivation to fund it.
- dagmx 4y ago
  edit: never mind i had somehow missed the GIMP Python extensions. So extensibility is not a point in favour of Krita, though looking at both APIs, I prefer the Krita API though that’s subjective
  - prokoudine 4y ago
    Python has been available as a scripting language in GIMP for over two decades now. GIMP 2.99.x (future 3.0) is shipping with support for Python, Script-Fu, Lua, JavaScript, and Vala as languages for extensions.
    - dagmx 4y ago
      Ah you’re right. The last time I used Gimp, the Gimp Python extension was an optional module that wasn’t included in the build I had But it’s been a while clearly and I missed it. I’ll edit my prior comment

by dagmx 4y ago

prokoudine 4y ago

> Krita... has better extensibility Really? How? :)

Eduard 4y ago
> Companies don’t need an alternative to Adobe. The licensing costs are a drop in the bucket. You are ignoring non-profits and countries foreign to you.
- dagmx 4y ago
  No I’m not because Adobe has pricing structures for non-profits and other markets. In the context of this discussion, the question was why companies aren’t funding GIMP development, and the ones that can’t afford a $20/mo aren’t the ones who would be funding development anyway. Yes, of course there’s a market for free stuff. But the price of admission into the existing paid for products is low enough that there’s little motivation to fund it.
dagmx 4y ago
edit: never mind i had somehow missed the GIMP Python extensions. So extensibility is not a point in favour of Krita, though looking at both APIs, I prefer the Krita API though that’s subjective
- prokoudine 4y ago
  Python has been available as a scripting language in GIMP for over two decades now. GIMP 2.99.x (future 3.0) is shipping with support for Python, Script-Fu, Lua, JavaScript, and Vala as languages for extensions.
  - dagmx 4y ago
    Ah you’re right. The last time I used Gimp, the Gimp Python extension was an optional module that wasn’t included in the build I had But it’s been a while clearly and I missed it. I’ll edit my prior comment