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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 DoktorDelta »

glonq wrote: post #36
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.

Once upon a time there was a fork called 'gimpshop' that added a PS-like UI to gimp. Clever idea. Warning - the current gimpshop domain hosts some scammer's adware-laden rip-off.

There's a recent alternative called PhotoGIMP that is trying to accomplish the same thing, not sure if it's based on the original GIMPshop.

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by stavros »

omnimus wrote: post #47
stavros wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? I heard Affinity Photo was great, though I haven't really used it.

It's pretty great. The whole Affinity suite is.

Oh, I thought the GP meant that Photopea puts Affinity to shame, I see now, thanks.

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by FredPret »

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 understatement

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by bolt7469 »

Firmwarrior wrote: post #68
colonelspace wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I didn't know what those were, but going by https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/adjustment-layers.h... You can do all the same stuff in the gimp, but it's just a little more laborious (or a lot more laborious if you're used to photoshop already I guess). The gimp lets you easily do all the same transformations, copy and reapply transformations, etc. It seems like the adjustment layer keeps the original image and…

Adjustment layers are a key part of a non-destructive editing workflow. Without them, doing professional work like retouching is much more difficult. GIMP's issue is that they don't seem to care about power user workflows.

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by kitsunesoba »

bolt7469 wrote: post #31
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.

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.

> On the other hand, GIMP still doesn't have Smart Objects or Adjustment Layers.

Or even a layer palette with a list view that acts like a normal list view with e.g. shift-click to multi-select, like every list view on every platform has had for upwards of two decades by now.

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by kitsunesoba »

jay_kyburz wrote: post #39
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.

Krita on the other hand is really great and getting better every day. I'm all in on Krita and believe it will be the next Blender.

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

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by bsder »

mxuribe wrote: post #8

First off kudos to Ivan - both because i love being a fan of the underdog, but also because what he built really is great! (Maybe a little also because i am definitely NOT a fan of adobe. sorry.) There are a cople of quotes here that are intriguing to me... > "...From 2012 - 2016, Photopea had no monetization plans built in. And after graduation, Ivan only produced $29k in the first year and a half of monetizing..."…

> Once again, kudos to Ivan for such a wonderful thing that he built, and for providing with himself a livelihood!!

Agreed. But he had to slog on this for years making zero. It would be nice to have a way to get people like him some money before something goes viral.

It also goes to show that "Most overnight successes are 10 years in the making."

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