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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
> Including his own PDF parser, content-aware fill feature, and even supporting GIFs. Wow, even GIF! Quick history lesson: 1987: GIF invented (Wilhite) 2010: Content aware fill invented (Barnes)
I remember learning about content-aware fill algorithms in my computer vision class back when it was the hot new thing, and it felt like it was yesterday!
...it was, in fact, 2010. God damn it.
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.
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A single person run project can enforce UX requirements much better than an open source project.
I agree with this. GIMP is powerful and a fine piece of software but it truly needs an enlightened UX despot to come in and clean house.
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.
Ditto Affinity Photo. Even paid programs are abysmal compared to Photopea.