Unless it’s for video editing, in which case Davinci Resolve is better, and it’s free.
GIMPs UI is steaming hot pile of shit unfortunately. It’s very powerful yes, but the UI is really hard to figure out.
Can’t say I agree.
That said, this probably isn’t true if someone is transitioning from Photoshop, which is probably the context of this discussion. I have seen people who start with Gimp without knowing Photoshop and they got into it fairly quick.
Using Gimp and expecting the same logic and structure as Photoshop will indeed lead to initial difficulties.
I don’t want to get into a war here. Am sure there’s things more complicated in Gimp than PS, but also vice versa.
Either way, I know a number of people who do stunning work with Gimp in little time.
There’s a project by Diolinux called PhotoGimp, which aims to make Gimp look like Photoshop. It also changes all the keybinds to match those of PS.
GIMP is somehow worse than Photoshop and I have no idea why. Inkscape and paint.net exist. Hell Corel paint shop exists.
It’s sad to say but Photoshop smokes basically all of its competitors except the ones that get into a specificic niche, but even then stuff like illustrator and lightroom compete well in that marketplace.
Photoshop may not be FOSS but it may as well be considered free due to the rampant piracy. I frequently recommend it forgetting it’s a subscription based Ad*be made product.
Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer finally broke my pirated Photoshop/Illustrator addiction. They are affordable seriously good alternatives with a classic ‘pay once for a major release’ model instead of a subscription. I’m a fairly advanced user and there was nothing I miss from the Adobe products, although real professionals may have more complex needs.
Also no Linux version. ☹️
+1 for Krita as the paining mvp
This plugin lets you paint with a local stable diffusion . Its better then firefly and free.
Serif’s Affinity suite isn’t free, but the UI is much more approachable than GIMP’s. The maintainers also aren’t being weirdly defensive about a name that’s a pun of a slur or sex thing.
Affinity is hella cheap, all things considered. And once you authenticate your installed software, you never have to be online again to use it.
It’s so nice, I’m definitely gonna buy it some day, unless GIMP and Scribus somehow manage to impress me until then. Inkscape is already great, but those two…
How bad is the learning curve? I’ve been cobbling stuff together with Openshot.
Pretty steep, it’s software aimed at professionals, and it shows. There are a few tutorials from Black Magic design where you can download the source media and follow along, which I found very useful.
I found you really need to spend a few evenings learning the software before you actually edit anything.
Just came here to say fuck Adobe acrobat
At this point, I’d say it’s not just correct but a moral obligation. Adobe has caused incalculable damage to the softwarescape by buying up smaller but popular companies, shoving their products full of AI crap, and putting them behind a subscription.
Allegorithmic used to have Linux releases for several of their Substance products. They no longer exist. Guess what fucking happened.
The <= 2020 versions of Adobe products basically all still work on Linux as well :)
Some of the menus are buggy, but it works for 99/100 of my personal use cases (or I switch to a rinky-dink windows partition or VM)
If you see someone pirate proprietary software: No you didn’t.
First you tell them about the FSF…
I’d like to interject for a moment. What you are referring to as Linux is in fact GNU/Linux or as recently i have taken to calling - GNU+Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself but rather another free component of a full functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Would you say you pirate those products by…
Prince-ple?
