Thank you. Here's one official response I found, if others are interested. > Again, we've done the research. The profits aren't there -- very few Linux users are willing to pay for commercial software. > And the cost of entry is still high because of the fragmented Linux landscape. > The Linux world has to change before commercial software will have reason to invest in Linux ports. > And we haven't seen much real cha…
Appimage has solved the distribution on Linux problem, software packaged as Appimages are as easy to run as an exe on Windows, and no additional software is required (unlike Flatpak & Snap).
No non destructive editing available is one of the biggest drawbacks
Isn't that what layers are for?
Take an example you scaled down and 1000x1000px image to 100x100px and then scaled it up back to 1000x1000px. In the process you lost a lot of info on the image.
PS solves that by using Smart Objects, Krita by Transform Masks, GIMP? Nope
> If still after applying the suggestions it does not work, it is just a bad tablet manufacturer. Krita adheres to the standard APIs provided by the Operating System. Unfortunately, your tablet manufacturer is a stupid one Same here, if my software breaks it must be the stupid hardware.
And pretty much every other point in this article is that any users who find the program insufficient are stupid, unpleasable assholes who should fix it themselves if they care so damn much.
I never told them to fix it, they can file a bug report which would help, if Krita seg faults then there is dialog which does that for you, :)
In some ways Photoshop is losing relevance in the creative space. Adobe’s rent seeking has pissed off a lot of people and upstarts like Krita, DaVinci Resolve and Serif are making waves. Affinity Photo and Designer offer strong Photoshop and Illustrator alternatives on MacOS, Windows and even iPadOS (no plans for a Linux version however) when Adobe seem to struggle to get a half baked version of Photoshop on iPadOS.…
Photoshop still doesn’t work on Catalina, after three months of release and many months of early dev release. I hope someone is able to replace them for photo processing.
Strange, I've had Photoshop CC2019 running fine with no issues and I've been on Catalina since the very first dev release. CC2020 is also now working fine. Truly software is the most fickle of beasts.
> The selection tool is just weird. You can highlight a region of the image, but to manipulate or transform it, there's no "Control+T" equivalent as far as I've discovered. I don't know what ctrl+T is (there may be some nuance I'm missing), but in Gimp the corner resize handles are always visible in a selection, the side handles appear on mouseover, and moving a selection is click+drag in the center.
Control+T is the shortcut in Photoshop for Free Transform, which turns your selected region into a click+drag target for translating; the corners and edges become resize handles for the selected content; outside of the corners becomes a rotate click target. There's also now a context menu for more advanced transformations like Skew, Perspective, etc. It's pretty much an all-in-one toolbox of most anything you'd want…
Ah yeah, that's nothing like what I thought you meant. That said, if I wanted to do something like that in Gimp, I'd just cut-paste - this creates a temporary layer with the content positioned exactly where it was before, where you can use the standard layer manipulation tools to transform it. You can then use either the "new layer" button to promote it fully, or "anchor" to paste it back onto the original.
> The selection tool is just weird. You can highlight a region of the image, but to manipulate or transform it, there's no "Control+T" equivalent as far as I've discovered. I don't know what ctrl+T is (there may be some nuance I'm missing), but in Gimp the corner resize handles are always visible in a selection, the side handles appear on mouseover, and moving a selection is click+drag in the center.
Control+T is the shortcut in Photoshop for Free Transform, which turns your selected region into a click+drag target for translating; the corners and edges become resize handles for the selected content; outside of the corners becomes a rotate click target. There's also now a context menu for more advanced transformations like Skew, Perspective, etc. It's pretty much an all-in-one toolbox of most anything you'd want…
There's Unified transform tool in GIMP 2.10 which does what you describe (the default shortcut is shift-T).
This has been my only argument for years for not switching to Linux. I've realized I haven't used Photoshop in more than two years now. I either work on projects where the designers provide me with already cut and ready to use props, or I work with people using Figma. My only argument now is that my Macbook is still working and I don't "have" to spend 2k on a Thinkpad. :)
Sweet jesus, don't get a thinkpad after having used a macbook. They are built of soft, grease-absorbing cheap plastic. People say 'oh, but thinkpads are so rebuildable'. Yeah. Because they degrade easily and are made of such cheap materials, they have to be. I bought a second hand dell laptop. Five years later bought a brand new thinkpad. Which do you think had to be repaired, and even with new parts still looks more…
You're the first one to tell me not to get a Thinkpad.