Unless it's for video editing, in which case Davinci Resolve is better, and it's free.
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or photo editing, in which case GIMP is better, and it's FOSS
GIMPs UI is steaming hot pile of shit unfortunately. It's very powerful yes, but the UI is really hard to figure out.
gtk3 is coming 👀
I can’t wait for that steaming pile of hot UI garbage to be on the hottest of GUI toolkits that came out in 2011
GTK 3 ?? They've sure taken their sweet time with it
hasn't it been coming for like a million years
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.
I often find this is the biggest obstacle with moving people to FOSS solutions. People want an alternative to Photoshop, so you show them Gimp, and they immediately get frustrated because they try to apply the logic and design philosophies of Photoshop to Gimp. People want an alternative to Windows, so you show them Linux, and they immediately get frustrated because they try to apply the logic and design philosophies of Windows to Linux. And then when it doesn't work the same way, then obviously that is a deficiency of the alternative, and not simply them having to learn a new way of doing things.
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.
Sadly it hasn’t had a new release in 2 years. It will probably go the way of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMPshop, which aimed to do the same before it was discontinued
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Gimp 3.0 should help afiak
fortunately there's some great people making awesome tutorials!
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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. ☹️
GIMP is somehow worse than Photoshop and I have no idea why. Inkscape and paint.net exist. Hell Corel paint shop exists.
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Why would you recommend GIMP when Krita exists
GIMP = Image Editing
Krita = Drawing and Painting
+1 for Krita as the paining mvp
This plugin lets you paint with a local stable diffusion . Its better then firefly and free.
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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...
I only wish it had a Linux port
I'd be fine as long as it runs in Wine, honestly
As someone with both installed, I disagree. Photoshop is the industry standard for a reason.
I'll use GIMP when I'm doing editing for my job that doesn't pay for an Adobe license, but otherwise I'll use Photoshop every time.
Is it though?
damn what kind of fancy school anon go to where they can afford Photoshop for the students? our school could only afford desktops from 2 decades ago
a lotta companies provide free licenses for educational purposes to indoctrinate students into using the products after school
Also because companies that students will apply to work for after graduation look for proficiency in said products because they’re what the vast majority of the industry uses.
If you manage to go through college studying digital media without touching an adobe product you are going to have a hard time finding a job when that’s reflected on your resume.
Adobe doesn’t deserve that exclusivity considering how shit some of their products have gotten and their trash subscription model but that’s the reality.
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or drawing. in which Krita is stellar
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.
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I use both. You can set up Davinci Resolve so it uses the same key bindings as Premiere Pro
Edit: I was too quick. You didn't mention Premiere Pro at all. Sorry
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)
Technically Substance products work too on Wine, but with a massive hit to performance because they use the GPU through some esoteric API that isn't covered by DXVK or VKD3D.
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