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ah. so people will continue to use this because its the "industry standard" so they have the monopoly to fuck around people all the while these same people will

ah. so people will continue to use this because its the "industry standard" so they have the monopoly to fuck around people all the while these same people will not use/improve/suggest/fund open source alternatives in the classic chicken or egg problem... i am so glad blender project is slowly being accepted. i have a friend who laughed at me 7-8 years ago when i recommended him blender. recently we were talking about some stuff and he brought up blender as in "this is something i should test". i see that as an absolute win... hopefully there are many other softwares like kdenlive or darktable or inkscape or others that need blender-like movement so that they can be capable alternatives

thot_experiment 4y ago
I swapped to using RawTherapee years ago and never looked back, at least for my workflow it's miles better than Lightroom. Blender is best in class when it comes to FOSS creative software, a real exemplar of the best case. Inkscape on the other hand is like shoving forks in my eyes every time I try to use it. I started working on an web-based SVG editor just to cover my own usecases. I'm just using the browser renderer because the Inkscape frontend is a total joke. There's tearing when I try to resize a rectangle, and it updates at like 8fps. It's actually embarrassing that software can be that slow doing something so basic. It's incomprehensible to me, I can render and display these staggeringly realistic game worlds at 240fps and the very same hardware struggles to resize a rectangle.
- 2Gkashmiri 4y ago
  have you used krita?
  - red_trumpet 4y ago
    Krita is great for drawing, but I think their SVG capabities are lacking.
  - thot_experiment 4y ago
    Yeah! Should have mentioned that one too. I literally had it open and was doodling when I wrote the post. It's not perfect but I still prefer it to Photoshop most of the time. Unfortunately it's pretty useless for vectors.
- Gualdrapo 4y ago
  To be honest with you, I've been experiencing those funny things with inkscape >1.1 or so - before that, it was flawless even on the crappy PC I have. Still I think it's great and nothing comes close to it regarding SVG.
- hutzlibu 4y ago
  The inkscape UI has become way better, though and I can live with the sluggish performance. But have you ever tried to use the resulting SVG in an interactive way? This is hell and I gave up. Partly it is because SVG is bad for it in general, partly because inkscape makes it worse with weird output (relying heavily on the viewBox for example)
- t0bia_s 4y ago
  Are you using RawTherapee for pro work?

thot_experiment 4y ago

I swapped to using RawTherapee years ago and never looked back, at least for my workflow it's miles better than Lightroom. Blender is best in class when it comes to FOSS creative software, a real exemplar of the best case. Inkscape on the other hand is like shoving forks in my eyes every time I try to use it. I started working on an web-based SVG editor just to cover my own usecases. I'm just using the browser renderer because the Inkscape frontend is a total joke. There's tearing when I try to resize a rectangle, and it updates at like 8fps. It's actually embarrassing that software can be that slow doing something so basic. It's incomprehensible to me, I can render and display these staggeringly realistic game worlds at 240fps and the very same hardware struggles to resize a rectangle.

2Gkashmiri 4y ago
have you used krita?
- red_trumpet 4y ago
  Krita is great for drawing, but I think their SVG capabities are lacking.
- thot_experiment 4y ago
  Yeah! Should have mentioned that one too. I literally had it open and was doodling when I wrote the post. It's not perfect but I still prefer it to Photoshop most of the time. Unfortunately it's pretty useless for vectors.
Gualdrapo 4y ago
To be honest with you, I've been experiencing those funny things with inkscape >1.1 or so - before that, it was flawless even on the crappy PC I have. Still I think it's great and nothing comes close to it regarding SVG.
hutzlibu 4y ago
The inkscape UI has become way better, though and I can live with the sluggish performance. But have you ever tried to use the resulting SVG in an interactive way? This is hell and I gave up. Partly it is because SVG is bad for it in general, partly because inkscape makes it worse with weird output (relying heavily on the viewBox for example)
t0bia_s 4y ago
Are you using RawTherapee for pro work?