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[-] MrMamiya@feddit.de 154 points 1 year ago

Photoshop is easier to use than gimp. I don’t pay for photoshop, but if I needed something like that I would.

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 63 points 1 year ago

Krita is closer to Photoshop than Gimp, although still not up to it. Just in case you ever need PS, try krita first.

[-] MrMamiya@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

Thanks I’ll remember that just in case!

[-] scorpious@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Photopea is good for most tasks

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Krita is excellent for painting, not very good for image editing though.

[-] NathanUp@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Hard disagree. I use it all the time for photo editing.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Well, there's better tools out there

[-] NathanUp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Again, just my opinion, but I prefer Krita to any FLOSS alternative. I've been designing professionally for over a decade, using Adobe for most of it; Krita is my preferred FLOSS tool for photo editing, and I've tried them all.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I'm surprised, I never managed to use it efficiently for that purpose. Perhaps AffinityPhoto spoiled me a bit. I love Krita for illustration work though, nothing compares... As far as commercial alternatives go, I haven't tried Clip Paint although everybody praises it- but I don't really feel the need to. Apparently it's excellent?

[-] NathanUp@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Yea, the workflow is a bit different. Not having a concept of fill opacity as separate from layer opacity forced me to change the way I do certain things, and having certain retouching tools grouped with the brushes was confusing at first.

For years, I didn't use anything besides Adobe CC, because it's "industry standard," so I've never given anything like Affinity a go in earnest.

With all FLOSS design tools, I had to have a bit of a reckoning with myself; like most people, at first I thought they were unintuitive, until I was able to have a bit of objectivity and found that most of the issues I had with them didn't arise because they were unintuitive; it was just because they didn't work like Adobe tools, which are themselves complex tools that you really can't just pick up on your own without some degree of instruction.

[-] zer0@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago

Krita has g'mic and it's open source. It's photoshop that is still not up to there

[-] CybranM@feddit.nu 1 points 1 year ago

Krita is a drawing program not really a photo editor like PS/Gimp. Paint.net was a pretty good PSlite last time I tried it

[-] Amilo159@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't say Photoshop is easy but Gimp is horrendous.

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

It's usable with photogimp, but Photoshop still has better tools and filters.

[-] Pussydogger@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Hard to compare.

The two apps just have a different workflow..

[-] MrMamiya@feddit.de 23 points 1 year ago

Well yeah I was answering for me though, not the whole internet.

Gimp has a work flow that I can’t get into, photoshop clicks better. For you, it could be the opposite and that’s great.

I’m not selling photoshop, I don’t even use either anymore. It would be stupid not to try to make gimp work for you first.

[-] Pussydogger@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Depends if you learn gimp or PS first.

Like if you start life with Linux, windows seems weird

[-] Salix@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Idk, I learned GIMP first for years, and kept being annoying how unintuitive it was.

Then I tried Photoshop on a friend's computer for a week, and found how much easier it was to use.

I don't use Photoshop though since I use Linux

[-] jhn@xffxe4.lol 3 points 1 year ago

Well yeah, that’s the whole point. It’s harder to learn another workflow when you’re already in the mindset of the other.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

If you're talking about general ergonomy (as opposed to functionality), you may find Affinity Photo to be a breath of fresh air. It's close to Ps (on purpose) but it is so much better thought out, the way you interact with your documents. Really worth trying

[-] firebyte@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Same with Inkscape vs Affinity Designer.

I really wanted Inkscape to work for me, though I was constantly fighting the UI and some weird artifacting Inkscape produced exporting SVG files.

Affinity Designer was, and still is, especially since their licenses are perpetual/non-subscription, well worth the price and is a dream to use.

[-] designated_fridge@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Same with Lightroom vs Darktable.

[-] Aux@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Darktable is pretty much a Lightroom replica in terms of the workflow. Its main issue is that Darktable reacts to slider changes in an unpredictable way. Small value differences lead to overblown changes to the image. Fine tuning the result is near impossible.

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

How does Rawtherapee compare to that? Many people seem to prefer it over Darktable

[-] Aux@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I tried it once a very long time ago. It was super slow and buggy. It's easier to get used to Darktable quirks.

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

It's very good and I prefer it to Darktable.

[-] odbol@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Does it have a good panorama sticker or HDR merger? Those are the tools I absolutely need from Lightroom

[-] Aux@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Not sure, never used these features.

[-] designated_fridge@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, might be! It's been 10+ years since I tried it. Back then I found it very hard to navigate

[-] nocturne213@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Photoshop is one i cannot shake too. If I need to make a graphic to post on social media for my shop, Photoshop does it. If I need to edit a picture, Photoshop.

[-] MtDewaholic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I’ve had a pretty good experience using photopea as a photoshop replacement. Definitely not quite as powerful, but it has more than enough features for your average user

[-] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Consider Photoshop Elements for a similar UI and one time payment to use forever.

[-] MrMamiya@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the tip I didn’t know about that.

Also Photoshop, along with DxO PureRaw.

My camera supports 10 bit/channel color. My monitor does too. GIMP only supports sRGB, so 8-bit color. It's unsuitable for editing, and even worse for printing.

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