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I don't think Gimp is the upgrade you think it is. And I say this having used basically nothing else, but the interface is arcane. Unless you use it every day, you sort of have to have a browser open all the time to search for how to do things.
But I agree that the best path to migration is to do apps first, one at a time, then do a system migration. Minimizes friction and pain.
I really like Krita and Inkscape
I've tried to follow a tutorial for Inkscape, but I just couldn't adapt to the workflow.
I appreciate you pointing this out. As someone who used actual photoshop for decades, GIMP simply doesn’t cut it.
There was Gimpshop, but the project got abandoned years ago. These days I use darktable for photo adjustments and don't do much creative editing. I've heard good things about Krita.
Look into PhotoGIMP.
Interesting, thanks!
There's even an unofficial AppImage of it now, which is nice because the one that deals with the Flatpak seems to break every time the Flatpak gets updated.
Sweet!
Idk, I guess it is personal taste but I like GIMP substantially better. The whole “separate windows is the default” thing is a baffling and wrong decision, but once you get over that small hurdle, it just seems like everything is more straightforward. Every time I have to rotate an image or something in Photoshop it’s just weird and off putting.
Maybe it’s just what I’m used to. And, some fancy things like layer effects or AI image stuff are straightforward in Photoshop whereas in GIMP you have to go into the awful scripting if you can do it at all. But to me for most things GIMP is easier and better.