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I now find myself using Photopea more than GIMP. Photopea is a browser-based photoshop clone. From what I understand it was built by just one guy, and it is in some ways better than GIMP. Pretty amazing work.
And again no non-destructive adjustment layers, the saga continues! When I talk to designers about Gimp they say "Uh, I tried it once years ago. But back then it was so archaic that you could not even change the contrast settings after you did something else to the image". Little do they know. It is still that archaic. 12 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2091318 11 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.c…
If you want to argue this from first principles, it's actually very easy: One of the first principles of UX is to respect the user's work. Destructive editing is pretty bad at that. qed.
I now find myself using Photopea more than GIMP. Photopea is a browser-based photoshop clone. From what I understand it was built by just one guy, and it is in some ways better than GIMP. Pretty amazing work.
I'm always worried with browser based editors that they are sending home a copy of the image.
And again no non-destructive adjustment layers, the saga continues! When I talk to designers about Gimp they say "Uh, I tried it once years ago. But back then it was so archaic that you could not even change the contrast settings after you did something else to the image". Little do they know. It is still that archaic. 12 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2091318 11 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.c…
Because begging for something which ordinarily is very expensive to be done for you for nothing is a meritless activity. An infinity of begging pays for not a single second of developer time.
It is likewise useless to suggest people would use it for free if only a few more million dollars worth of developer time was invested by other people. This isn't an offer of a favor. It's more like me saying that I would gladly come and stay in your guest room if you would only serve me coffee and donuts.
I now find myself using Photopea more than GIMP. Photopea is a browser-based photoshop clone. From what I understand it was built by just one guy, and it is in some ways better than GIMP. Pretty amazing work.
We all assume there's a vast army of dedicated people behind these things. Most people do just a tiny bit and don't stick around.
The reality is the core ranks are thin and the troops are exhausted. If you've got the time, they could use a hand (this is for all open source projects)
They people behind them are also usually effectively invisible when compared to the effort they put in so if you're thin on time, hunting down an email to send a sincere personal thank you would really make their day.
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I'm always worried with browser based editors that they are sending home a copy of the image.
What's stopping GIMP from doing the same thing? It has more access to the network than your browser.
And again no non-destructive adjustment layers, the saga continues! When I talk to designers about Gimp they say "Uh, I tried it once years ago. But back then it was so archaic that you could not even change the contrast settings after you did something else to the image". Little do they know. It is still that archaic. 12 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2091318 11 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.c…
And again no non-destructive adjustment layers, the saga continues! When I talk to designers about Gimp they say "Uh, I tried it once years ago. But back then it was so archaic that you could not even change the contrast settings after you did something else to the image". Little do they know. It is still that archaic. 12 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2091318 11 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.c…
At work I'm on Creative Cloud with the latest M1 Max MBP. At I home I've switched to Manjaro after 17 years of macOS use. I just started looking into Krita for bitmap editing. It has adjustment layers (which I can't do without). Switching from Lightroom to darktable was quite dramatic, but I actually prefer darktable now. Took me two years of on and off fiddling to finally get to that point.