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An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

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Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

harvie wrote: post #11

GIMP. How do you feel about it? i know people were sometimes quite critical, it has different workflow than PS, but it seems it gets the job done.

World would be in a better place if GIMP hadn't ever existed, the existence of GIMP is part of why we don't have an actual viable alternative. Constant claims of "good enough", 20+ years to implement adjustment layers after dismissing their value for many years a team that doesn't really care at all about it.

If GIMP had never existed maybe the Blender team or someone else who actually has passion for the problem would have made the Linux image editor and we'd be in such a better place.

Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

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Post by Goofy_Coyote »

giwook wrote: post #23

There have been some good alternatives mentioned in the comments here, like Affinity or Photopea. Does anyone happen to know if there is a similarly good alternative to Lightroom?

Capture One.

Also, Davinci Resolve has added photo editing functionality since 2 V21 iirc, but it’s not a drop-in replacement. It’s Davinci Resolve though, so expect to be blown away.

Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

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Post by Pseudomanifold »

giwook wrote: post #23

There have been some good alternatives mentioned in the comments here, like Affinity or Photopea. Does anyone happen to know if there is a similarly good alternative to Lightroom?

Darktable (https://www.darktable.org/) has become very good and continues to be my go-to solution for digital photography.

Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

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Post by NietTim »

> It turned out that my subscription, which had been going since 2013, was on an “Annual Paid Monthly” plan. Even though I was getting billed monthly, I couldn’t actually cancel any time I wanted.

I've been wondering for a while what happens if you just block the transactions on your credit card. (Can't test it myself because I'm not an adobe customer and never will be)

Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

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Post by dsego »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #21
harvie wrote: post #11

GIMP. How do you feel about it? i know people were sometimes quite critical, it has different workflow than PS, but it seems it gets the job done.

World would be in a better place if GIMP hadn't ever existed, the existence of GIMP is part of why we don't have an actual viable alternative. Constant claims of "good enough", 20+ years to implement adjustment layers after dismissing their value for many years a team that doesn't really care at all about it. If GIMP had never existed maybe the Blender team or someone else who actually has passion for the problem wou…

I share the sentiment, a lot of open source alternatives can't decide whether they want to be a replacement, a professional tool, a beginner user-friendly tool or just a playground for software devs. GIMP is awkwardly in the middle and has been stuck for a long time, it never met expectations, but became the default answer to any questions involving photoshop alternatives.

Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

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Post by Forgeties79 »

giwook wrote: post #23

There have been some good alternatives mentioned in the comments here, like Affinity or Photopea. Does anyone happen to know if there is a similarly good alternative to Lightroom?

BMD just added their Lightroom-competitor to resolve studio. It’s pretty new so I imagine it is not as feature rich as Lightroom, but could be worth looking at currently and I’m sure it’ll improve
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