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Affinity’s Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 months ago by otter@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] rocci@lemmy.ml 22 points 4 months ago (17 children)

Is this a good Photoshop alternative?

[–] c0smokram3r@midwest.social 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I’ve heard GIMP (also known as GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a legit foss alt.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Gimp for a full image manipulation suit.

Krita for digital painting/art and a decent gui, still better for light image edits then paint.

Between those two photoshop is essentially overpriced hypeware. Its convenient to have both foss apps packed under a single well designed interface but no where worth what they demand. After adobe leaked the details from my student account back in 2013 they have continuously caused me so much damage they should be paying me.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 7 points 4 months ago

I actually use gimp in a semi-professional capacity. I have access to photoshop but I find Photoshop to be very unintuitive whereas Gump has all of its layouts exactly where I expect it to be after a few years of usage.

There are some things that photoshop does better than gimp. It's magic select tool is light years better than gimps, and content aware fill is also light years better, but I, who only need to make occasional minor edits to images to present them to other people one time I'm able to accomplish everything that I need with free software, and if it were up to me alone I would discontinue my Adobe subscription.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

It's good if you can get past it's unintuitive UI.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pasta might be an improvement over its current UI.

[–] pikmeir@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

That's just because of all its spaghetti code.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Plugins can also help with that

[–] c0smokram3r@midwest.social 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Ooh, any recommendations? Pls & thx!

[–] lavdusk@chillpeep.zone 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

PhotoGIMP should work if you want a more Photoshop-y feel, though it's not a plugin, it's config file changes
https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP

[–] pulverizedcoccyx@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

Damn you. Now I gotta check that out. I dropped gimp permanently once I tried Krita.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I don't remember the names of the ones I used, but there are a ton of tutorials and videos on how to set it up to look like Photoshop, or in my case Fractal Design Painter

[–] rocci@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What are some good gimp plugins that improve the ui?

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

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I don't remember the names of the ones I used, but there are a ton of tutorials and videos on how to set it up to look like Photoshop, or in my case Fractal Design Painter

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