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At this point, if you are in the graphic design area, Adobe basically own you. There is really nothing that will substitute for Photoshop without a massive drop
by lambdaone 2y ago
At this point, if you are in the graphic design area, Adobe basically own you. There is really nothing that will substitute for Photoshop without a massive drop in productivity.
GIMP is better that it was, but not yet good enough to replace Photoshop in the same way that Blender replaces Maya etc; perhaps this will drive support for GIMP to get better, but I'm not optimistic.
- gizajob 2y agoAffinity make a pretty decent clone of the main Adobe apps. Although they just got bought by Canva so may be at the shark-jumping point.
- masswerk 2y agoThey just shipped an update with support for variable fonts. So, I guess, it's still much alive.
- nacs 2y agoEvery time someone brings up alternatives, I always recommend Krita. User friendly, cross platform, OSS. Far better than Gimp, especially in the UI side.
- j16sdiz 2y agoIf krita work for you, that's great. However, Photoshop do lots more than painting and photo editing. If you use the vector, content filling or plug-in features on Photoshop, krita won't help you.
- nacs 2y agoKrita has vector support too. In fact you can mix and match vector and raster layers. It also has plugins that do content filling like this (and they do it offline): https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion But nothing is going to be a 100% replacement, I'm merely offering alternatives.
- spaniard89277 2y agoAs I said before, my GF works in design and she's been using Affinity and Cavalry for a while. She seems happy about it.
- dawnerd 2y agoHonestly a lot of creatives have managed to move away from Adobe. It's why they tried to buy Figma. And they'll try to buy probably every other alternative they can if it keeps you in their system.