Are there any good alternatives to gimp in Ubuntu repository?
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Gimp 3 Beta Released
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Re: Gimp 3 Beta Released
#52imagine a world where blender/kdenlive/gimp/libreoffice are proper alternatives to commercial software and people use them just because they are not "web based" or subscription only or avoid linux users like the plague which adobe/autodesk/microsoft do with their products.
add InkScape! ... and FreeCad when it solves its topology naming issues
Re: Gimp 3 Beta Released
#53I 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.
Photopea is great and I’ve been using it a lot lately. But while it’s getting close to feature parity with Photoshop, the fundamental algorithms are significantly worse.
One example to test this: create a new layer, select a rectangular area, fill it with the paint bucket tool. Then use free transform to rotate that rectangle 45 degrees. The edges will be a mess. Its even worse at other angles.
I don’t want to slander Photopea because as I said I use it a lot, but I’d suggest to spend a while with it before deciding that you’re ready to ditch Photoshop/GIMP/Affinity.
Re: Gimp 3 Beta Released
#54Does anyone know about CMYK support? I remember years ago it was a planned feature, but recently I tried to gather info about it and could not find anything. Has the team decided to remove it from scope? Currently I know of Cyan[1] as an open source tool that I can use to prepare an asset for printing, happy to hear about any other good alternatives. [1] http://cyan.fxarena.net/
I couldn't find anything either. At some point someone added CMYK support to GEGL and this seems to be where any other effort has stopped. Heck, even the Roadmap on the Gimp homepage is a dead link.
EDIT: Here's an issue in the Milestone 3 that is concerned with CMYK exporting: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/356
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The difference is that it’s Open source, so you could certainly verify if you wanted to.
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Yes, but the website owner can change its source code at any time, and even serve differently JS for each user, puting the entire responsibility on the user shoulder to check the code behavior all the time.
It's not as demanding with an open source app with distributed source code and versioning.
So I don't understand the snark, and how it is helpful.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
The difference is that it’s Open source, so you could certainly verify if you wanted to.
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I wonder how often people are monitoring these things. If the photopea author decided to start collecting people's images, how soon would people catch on?
And on the flip side, if the main Gimp author releases a binary that is different from the one built from source, how fast would people notice?
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Yes, but the website owner can change its source code at any time, and even serve differently JS for each user, puting the entire responsibility on the user shoulder to check the code behavior all the time. It's not as demanding with an open source app with distributed source code and versioning. So I don't understand the snark, and how it is helpful.
Same goes for open source builds, you have to either build it yourself or trust the supplied builds.