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Thoughts on opensource alternatives? - Inkscape is an obvious one --- there's also https://cenon.info/ https://cenon.info/, perhaps Gravit Designer? Any word o

Thoughts on opensource alternatives? - Inkscape is an obvious one --- there's also https://cenon.info/ https://cenon.info/, perhaps Gravit Designer? Any word on Graphite.rs 's stand-alone desktop version? - GIMP, Paint.net, Darktable and Krita - Scribus or LaTeX or Typst

GuinansEyebrows 1y ago
> GIMP still no cmyk, and AFAIK text editing is almost worse than useless. not everybody's use case, but it keeps me spending 12.99 a month for PS.
raincole 1y ago
And Blender. Yeah I know it sounds like a joke, but all Blender's icons are made in Blender, so it's officially an 2D vector graphics app too.
- shrinks99 1y ago
  Most of Blender's icons are actually made in Penpot which is also what the Blender foundation uses for UI prototyping. The brush icons are made in Blender though! https://penpot.app/penpothub/libraries-templates/blender-cons-set https://penpot.app/penpothub/libraries-templates/blender-con... https://code.blender.org/2024/11/new-brush-thumbnails/ https://code.blender.org/2024/11/new-brush-thumbnails/
starkparker 1y ago
Haven't seen anything on Graphite.rs (site is still suggesting Q4 2025) but people on the Affinity Discord have been putting a lot of disgruntled new eyes on it.
- scroot 1y ago
  Thanks for posting, I hadn't even heard of this
indrora 1y ago
Gravit Designer was sunset 9/1 of this year after the acquisition by Corel.
- WillAdams 1y ago
  Darn, that's sad to hear.
sedatk 1y ago
Paint.NET isn't open source, is it?
- WillAdams 1y ago
  Good point, free as in beer, right? https://github.com/orgs/paintdotnet/repositories https://github.com/orgs/paintdotnet/repositories
  - sedatk 1y ago
    Wow, awesome, I had no idea.
    - sedatk 1y ago
      Oh, only some code for some plugins are there. Bummer. :/
      - WillAdams 1y ago
        Yeah, I don't know why I keep thinking paint.net is opensource....
qustrolabe 1y ago
GIMP doesn't have "Patch tool", it doesn't have "Inpaint Brush" that is like content aware fill but brush, it doesn't have content aware fill either. I remember there were some plugins that provide features kinda similar to those tools but it was a huge pain to install and use them through nested filter menus. It's a great program for free open source, but it's decades behind on feature parity with other editors, and launch times long enough for me to prefer opening Photopea tab in browser instead
pseingatl 1y ago
Viva Designer as an alternative to Publisher. There's also a Linux version as well as Mac and Windows.
- pseingatl 1y ago
  oops, sorry, Viva is not open source.

GuinansEyebrows 1y ago

> GIMP still no cmyk, and AFAIK text editing is almost worse than useless. not everybody's use case, but it keeps me spending 12.99 a month for PS.

raincole 1y ago

And Blender. Yeah I know it sounds like a joke, but all Blender's icons are made in Blender, so it's officially an 2D vector graphics app too.

shrinks99 1y ago
Most of Blender's icons are actually made in Penpot which is also what the Blender foundation uses for UI prototyping. The brush icons are made in Blender though! https://penpot.app/penpothub/libraries-templates/blender-cons-set https://penpot.app/penpothub/libraries-templates/blender-con... https://code.blender.org/2024/11/new-brush-thumbnails/ https://code.blender.org/2024/11/new-brush-thumbnails/

starkparker 1y ago

Haven't seen anything on Graphite.rs (site is still suggesting Q4 2025) but people on the Affinity Discord have been putting a lot of disgruntled new eyes on it.

scroot 1y ago
Thanks for posting, I hadn't even heard of this

indrora 1y ago

Gravit Designer was sunset 9/1 of this year after the acquisition by Corel.

WillAdams 1y ago
Darn, that's sad to hear.

sedatk 1y ago

Paint.NET isn't open source, is it?

WillAdams 1y ago
Good point, free as in beer, right? https://github.com/orgs/paintdotnet/repositories https://github.com/orgs/paintdotnet/repositories
- sedatk 1y ago
  Wow, awesome, I had no idea.
  - sedatk 1y ago
    Oh, only some code for some plugins are there. Bummer. :/
    - WillAdams 1y ago
      Yeah, I don't know why I keep thinking paint.net is opensource....

qustrolabe 1y ago

GIMP doesn't have "Patch tool", it doesn't have "Inpaint Brush" that is like content aware fill but brush, it doesn't have content aware fill either. I remember there were some plugins that provide features kinda similar to those tools but it was a huge pain to install and use them through nested filter menus. It's a great program for free open source, but it's decades behind on feature parity with other editors, and launch times long enough for me to prefer opening Photopea tab in browser instead

pseingatl 1y ago

Viva Designer as an alternative to Publisher. There's also a Linux version as well as Mac and Windows.

pseingatl 1y ago
oops, sorry, Viva is not open source.