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Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by jay_kyburz »

Beltalowda wrote: post #96
kitsunesoba wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blender and Krita are model examples of how to run FOSS projects. Excellent software and excellent projects.

Depends what your goal is. For a long time the GIMP people were pretty clear they just wanted to work on it in their spare time for fun. Ton on the other hand always had some very clear and much bigger ideas what he wanted to do with Blender. Is one way "better" or "worse"? I don't think so, it just depends on what your goals are.

When working with big complex applications, learning how to use them is no small investment. It's not a matter of which development methodology better or worse, what matters to me is whether or not I will see a return on my investment.

With Krita, Blender, Inkscape, Love2D, even Kate, I'm confident those time investments will be worth it.

With GIMP and Godot and a few others, I'm not sure.

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by tomcam »

prox wrote: post #30
tomcam wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whenever I see posts like this my immediate reflex is to remind the complainant to have a little respect for the creators. But it’s really hard to disagree with this…

Sorry but the creators have such a disdain for any form user experience enhancements that I cannot give them a pass.

As a GIMP user for 20+ years there’s no way I can defend them.

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by retrofeel »

farisjarrah wrote: post #6
jollyllama wrote: post #2

Interesting, never heard of it. I've been using Affinity since ~2017.

photopea is one of the best examples of a web application imo. Its a full featured image editing software just running in your browser. No sign up or login required and you can just upload and quickly work off a local file for your computer. You just fire it up and start working.

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Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by vanous »

colonelspace wrote: post #32
bolt7469 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Photopea's killer feature is the fact that it, for the most part, directly copies Photoshop's implementations of features. There's no learning curve because it's basically the same. On the other hand, GIMP still doesn't have Smart Objects or Adjustment Layers.

No adjustment layers? That is like photoshop 101. That's pretty embarrassing for GIMP.

People develop software for themselves and package it for others. What's wrong on it?

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by prox »

zeruch wrote: post #81
prox wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry but the creators have such a disdain for any form user experience enhancements that I cannot give them a pass.

That's been the feeling of many of us for years (literally, when I knew a few of the GIMP folks back in my VA Linux days I rattled off stuff I thought was valuable and some of its still not there...mostly around the baroque UX, 20+ years on). It's sad because it's not that the app isn't powerful, it's that it's obtuse to anyone but diehards.

I tried to talk and engage in the community for a while, came up with really well researched tried-and-tested UX improvements, only to be dismissed as not “relevant”. Further engagements only seem to be showing how opaque the decision making process is (you can see this in a different form in the wordpress community btw)

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by IvanK_net »

troymc wrote: post #29

I recently switched back to using Ubuntu as my desktop OS, and was intrigued to see that Photopea was the default app to open many file types, including PDF. I thought that was odd because while Photopea is free-of-charge, it's not completely open source [1]. [1] https://github.com/photopea/photopea

If you go to www.Photopea.com and press More - "Install Photopea", it will install the so-called "PWA". This allows starting Photopea with a homescreen icon, in a window without a browser UI. It also allows associating a website with certain extensions, so your system will "open files in a website". It should work on every device/OS/browser (in the long run). You can uninstall it in your browser under about://apps

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by prmoustache »

FortiDude wrote: post #13

Photopea should be GIMP's permanent embarrassment. I can't believe running a webapp offline written by a single person is more viable than a native program developed by a vast amount of contributors over decades.

Gimp works really well.

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by prmoustache »

smackeyacky wrote: post #54
FortiDude wrote: post #13

Photopea should be GIMP's permanent embarrassment. I can't believe running a webapp offline written by a single person is more viable than a native program developed by a vast amount of contributors over decades.

He's done a fantastic job. Meanwhile the GIMP still doesn't have a "Save As..." menu item, you have to go through extra steps using "Export". Just a symptom of the attitude the UI projects.

That's the same wth just a different name, what is the problem?

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by IvanK_net »

sdfhbdf wrote: post #5

There is little to no time spent in this article on how photopea is monetized. I even went to the product itself to find out but couldn’t, at least on mobile. Is there some subscription? What do you pay for? Genuinely asking since I used it a few times and never noticed any payment nagging.

25% of our users use Photopea on mobile, but we do not monetize it in these cases, as we think your screen is already too small.

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by prmoustache »

FredPret wrote: post #73
FortiDude wrote: post #13

Photopea should be GIMP's permanent embarrassment. I can't believe running a webapp offline written by a single person is more viable than a native program developed by a vast amount of contributors over decades.

Gimp is a great idea but is a non-starter because of the incredibly disturbing name. I've never heard of photopea before today, but I'm sure glad there's a good alternative. Edit: here’s what gimp means: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gimp 1. Derogatory term for disabled person 2. Insult meaning stupid person 3. Male sex slave Could they possibly have picked a worse name? “Poor taste” is a huge under…

So you can't use a software because of its name?

It would be offensive if that word was refering to someone. It doesn't. It refered initially to "General Image Manipulation Program" and now to "Gnu Image Manipulation Program". It is litterally in the front page of the Gimp website. It is an acronym.

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