Surely there’s something better than Gimp.
Whenever I open GIMP I always feel like an 18th century taxonomist’s first time seeing a platypus and assuming it’s an elaborate hoax cooked up by someone with far too much time on their hands. Surely this isn’t software made by humans to do useful things!? This must be a joke!
Krita, definitely, though it’s still not as complete in capability it’s a much better analogue
Seconded. Krita is significantly easier to use then GIMP.
Isn’t krita for painting and photoshop for photo editing? Does krita do RAW, color grading and such?
yes they are two different use cases.
Krita is mostly for digital artists and digital painting, while GIMP is more for image editing. They aren’t made for the same purpose, even though both can do simple stuff from both worlds.
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OpenShot is also a remarkably capable and easy-to-use video editor - https://www.openshot.org/ . I use it almost daily for editing screen capture videos.
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Gimp instead of Krita???
who the fuck does image editing in krita?
This image is crusty
Idk about the rest of the software on this list, but presenting gimp as an “alternative” to photoshop seems disingenuous to me.
Gimp is an alternative to photoshop in the same way that a 56K modem is an alternative to a 1 gig fiber line. Yes, they technically do the same job. But to suggest that your experience is going to be comparable to photoshop is a stretch.
Same with Inkscape IMO. Anyone have a different alternative?
Yeah GIMP is shit. Anyone who says otherwise has no idea what they’re talking about. Inkscape is better than gimp but still suffers from UI issues.
I’m pretty sure GIMP doesn’t have any kind of UI or UX contributors… it’s all “programmer design”, where finding the rectangle select tool takes 5 minutes and it doesn’t work the way you want it to
Depends what you are doing. If you are drawing-krita, if you are manipulating images-gimp, making svg stuff-inkscape. I’ve been using gimp long enough that the newest photoshop makes me want to crashout.
Quality features often confuse people.
Nah, pretty sure it was the ai jammed in everything.
So then you admit that pre-AI Photoshop was significantly better than gimp. Thanks
Oh. Hands down. I miss the old creative suites. But the current product? Glitchy pos. Fuck em. Once you use gimp for a few years the pain dulls. Now how you think inkscape is comparable to illustrator is baffling. Is illustrator also a shitshow now?
I wouldn’t actually know. I don’t use Adobe Products.
But if you exclude the AI features, and don’t make “anti-ai” your entire personality, gimp is pretty shit
The GUI/UX is shit. If you wanna design automated workflows from the shell, it can be quite flexible and powerful.
Like they used to have a website that would generate tags or like styled text. They used GIMP for the backend image generation. I thought that was a pretty impressive use case.
Imagemagick.
GIMP is also a massive pain in the ass. Paint.net is the one piece of software I still miss after moving to Linux.
Da Vinci Resolve is great though. Crazy that it’s free and Linux compatible.
I’m switching to Linux right now and I haven’t really looked into replacements for each piece of software. Used Paint.net for at least 10 years, tried Gimp first but didn’t like it. What do you use?
Try Pinta. Unless you do digital painting/illustration, then go for Krita.
Gimpshop i think it’s called at least tries to make the GIMP workflow and UX (including keyboard short cuts) not completely, well, gimped.
The image doesn’t say it’s a replacement, it says it’s an alternative. What piece of sofware would you suggest instead?
I’d suggest Krita before Gimp, and even Affinity (although I’m sure there’s a gotcha coming with that one)
I’ve been using Photoshop for 24 years and I gave Affinity a try. Affinity still has a lot of kinks to work out. Cross compatibility wrt brushes and tools is spotty at best, unusable at worst. UI and workflow/workspace definitely needs improvement. No right click to adjust brush size and no saveable workspace option was a dealbreaker for me.
Photopea is pretty good for casual use
Important one:
Adobe acrobat: fork to the eyes. (Jokes aside, I’m using Stirling pdf viewer right now, it’s nice)
It tends to be pretty straightforward about what an alternative can and can’t do. The tags work well for searching so you can exclude paid or freemium apps.
figma is not free software, and neither is davinci resolve. use penpot and kdenlive.
Free as in beer, not as in speech, and DaVinci Resolve at least has a $295 upgrade for additional features, although last time I looked that upgrade is included with certain hardware purchases from Blackmagic.
Yea it’s not free but it’s a once off, keep for ever price.
I’m happy with that
I still like the traditional model for paid software where you pay once, and then future major upgrades can be purchased for a discount; it seems like a fair way for the developer to support continued development while allowing the customer to decide if they prefer to stay on an older version.
Yea I’m completely stepping away from all subscriptions.
The only subscriptions I will pay for is for things like Email etc.
As the person offering the service needs to keep their servers running etc.
I’ve been pretty happy with kdenlive myself.
Figma? No, I won’t fall for that again!
Try PenPot instead.
How good is it in comparison, feature wise?
Maybe a version or two behind on extra stuff, but core features And workflow are very similar.
“Not much, what’s figma with you?”
You know, just hanging with Candice
It’s figmover
More people know Premier, but Natron is designed as a clone to the foundry’s Nuke.
A better photoshop alternative is photopea. Gimp is it’s own mess.
Can you download and install Photopea or does it still require a Web browser and an online connection to run?
It’s been a while since I paid attention to it, but last I heard Natron wasn’t maintained anymore since it was having trouble getting developers.
Figma ballz
Not much what’s updog with you?
What’s up dog?
This year i first saw an ad for Photoshop, i see this as a sign of them losing. Keep up the good work folk!
Is there anything to sort of replace InDesign? I am doing cruel, time consuming, and unspeakable things with latex atm.
Isn’t that the best way to spend time with latex, though? … oh. oh wait, you don’t mean bdsm…
honestly, it does not feel dissimilar.
There is Libre office draw and scribus that I know of.
Wow that was a RISKY click based on that URL
Not a good product name 😬
