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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] kautau 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Gimp 3.0 should help afiak

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

fortunately there's some great people making awesome tutorials!

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] CheesyFox 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

illustrator doesn't. Inkscape rocks

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Why would you recommend GIMP when Krita exists

[–] art 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

GIMP = Image Editing
Krita = Drawing and Painting

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

+1 for Krita as the paining mvp

This plugin lets you paint with a local stable diffusion . Its better then firefly and free.

https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I only wish it had a Linux port

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I'd be fine as long as it runs in Wine, honestly

[–] chiliedogg 9 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is it though?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

a lotta companies provide free licenses for educational purposes to indoctrinate students into using the products after school

[–] kautau 7 points 9 months ago

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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

or drawing. in which Krita is stellar

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

How bad is the learning curve? I've been cobbling stuff together with Openshot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] CurlyMoustache 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

[–] tourist 45 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Just came here to say fuck Adobe acrobat

[–] CheesyFox 11 points 9 months ago

horrid piece of software

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Adobe: 🤢

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

They're coming left and right for our screen real estate

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

foxit pdf reader

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I prefer Sumatra

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[–] rtxn 44 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you see someone pirate proprietary software: No you didn't.

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[–] SpermGoobler 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is the highest quality version of this meme I've ever seen

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[–] SzethFriendOfNimi 9 points 9 months ago

Mom, can we get Prince

We already have Prince at home.

Prince at home ^

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Would you say you pirate those products by...

Prince-ple?

[–] Sweetpeaches69 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Anyone know where I could get a good copy of Lightroom?

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