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Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by bscphil »

bscphil wrote: post #85
Animats wrote: post #28

From the article: "Yes, all of us know the text tool (in Krita) is horrible but at least it is a bit better than the last one which was just pure shit." Pinta also has a terrible text tool. It's so bad that sometimes the font selector disappears and you can't get it back. Generic problem with Linux image editors? I'd settle for something on Linux that works as well as Photoshop Elements from ten years ago.

GIMP is just astoundingly bad in this area as well. The hinting is bad looking enough that you have to disable it, and when you enable anti-aliasing (required for decent looking fonts) it enables sub-pixel anti-aliasing too, which already doesn't make much sense since the results are so completely different on different LCD screens, but it's implemented in a retina-searingly bad fashion. I don't know why they don't j…

One additional note that seemed important in case anyone reads this: I just tested GIMP's font rendering on macOS and it's completely different than on Linux. There's no "colorful" sub pixel rendering, and the results seem blurrier to me at the same font size, although the latter might be because this is on a high DPI screen with scaling.

So consider the above to only apply to the Linux version of GIMP.

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by cannedslime »

hellozee wrote: post #119
cannedslime wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, photoshop didnt always do this. I still use CS2 and it definetely doesn't work like you describe. I'd say that GIMP is somewhat comparable to the feature set of CS2, though I admit I havent used gimp much.

Smart Objects were introduced in CS2, so no, :)

Ah you are right. It gives the illusion of quality loss until you commit the change, and then it looks crisp again.

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by prepend »

zimpenfish wrote: post #105
prepend wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Here’s adobe’s posting stating the issues [0]:

> Which Photoshop versions are compatible with macOS Catalina?

> Photoshop 21.0 & Photoshop 20.0.7 work with macOS 10.15 (Catalina) but have these known compatibility issues. You may want to remain on your current version of macOS until these issues have been resolved.

[0] last updated dec 12 https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/photoshop-and-macos-cat...

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by closeparen »

vunie wrote: post #90
jakobmi wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"current customers who would switch to linux". Again, this is 0 incremental revenue but a ton of incremental costs to Adobe.

Adobe moved to a subscription model. They lose revenue as they lose customers.

If you need Photoshop, you'll stay on platforms where it's supported. If you don't, you'll probably not pay for it anyway.

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by AstralStorm »

zozbot234 wrote: post #72
saurik wrote: post #65

I have long felt that if Adobe were to take their already-very-cross-platform (even afaik using a custom toolkit) tool suite and port it to Linux, they could own Linux: they should create an Adobe Linux distribution and bless a single toolkit and then I think you would suddenly see people actually feeling like they could both use it professionally and developers actually feeling like they could target it effectively…

> they should create an Adobe Linux distribution and bless a single toolkit and then I think you would suddenly see people actually feeling like they could both use it professionally and developers actually feeling like they could target it effectively without worry of fragmentation Corel tried this already with a Debian-derived distribution, like a proto-Ubuntu of sorts. It didn't work, so they abandoned that effort…

It was a long time ago though, hardware support was not up to snuff yet...

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by AstralStorm »

Linux doesn't have Illustrator either and that's a bigger problem most of the time.

Inkscape and Krita aren't there yet. Photoshop is rather optimized for modifying pictures rather than drawing, but a lot of people I know in drawing are actually using Illustrator instead...

Scribus is also still rather weak compared to InDesign. (And no, you won't convert the world to LaTeX with LyX. Too complex.)

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by dang »

0x8BADF00D wrote: post #6

Linux is a mainframe emulator, it will never be a user-friendly OS. It has spinlocks.

Can you please stop trolling, or posting comments that are indistinguishable from trolling? Between this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21877139, it's pretty bad.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by oliwarner »

zozbot234 wrote: post #72
saurik wrote: post #65

I have long felt that if Adobe were to take their already-very-cross-platform (even afaik using a custom toolkit) tool suite and port it to Linux, they could own Linux: they should create an Adobe Linux distribution and bless a single toolkit and then I think you would suddenly see people actually feeling like they could both use it professionally and developers actually feeling like they could target it effectively…

> they should create an Adobe Linux distribution and bless a single toolkit and then I think you would suddenly see people actually feeling like they could both use it professionally and developers actually feeling like they could target it effectively without worry of fragmentation Corel tried this already with a Debian-derived distribution, like a proto-Ubuntu of sorts. It didn't work, so they abandoned that effort…

Twenty. Years. Ago.

Re: Linux doesn't have Photoshop

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Post by jsf01 »

fbnlsr wrote: post #33

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. :)

I added Arch to my 2012 MacBook after it started feeling frustratingly sluggish. So you don’t need to wait to buy a new machine just to switch to Linux. There’s also the option to run it in a vm with some shared folders with your MacBook. You can basically live within the vm full time and switch out of it for photoshop.
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