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Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by zeruch »

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.

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.

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by qbit42 »

tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: post #69
Daunk wrote: post #56

I've tried Photopea a million times, but the interface always messes up somehow. I just tried it, and sure enough, a huge grey box is stuck on the right side of the screen and can't be removed.

That sounds like it might be an ad partially blocked by your ad blocker?

Yeah, that's a panel for an ad.

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by dang »

Related:

Building a Free Photo Editor and Making $100k/Mo as a Solo Founder - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32693191 - Sept 2022 (3 comments)

Photopea: A Photoshop clone web app - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32692372 - Sept 2022 (50 comments)

Reddit Photopea founder – I have millions of users, but no businesses use it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30357839 - Feb 2022 (19 comments)

Photopea: A free alternative to Photoshop used by millions of people - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26898836 - April 2021 (5 comments)

AMA: Ivan Kutskir, creator of Photopea - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26768550 - April 2021 (267 comments)

AMA with the Creator of Photopea - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24143189 - Aug 2020 (6 comments)

Reddit AMA on Photopea, a free alternative to Photoshop used by 1.5M people - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18397380 - Nov 2018 (179 comments)

My name is Ivan and I want to make the best photo editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15924402 - Dec 2017 (80 comments)

Photo Pea 0.3 – New features - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6624264 - Oct 2013 (7 comments)

HTML5 image editor wants to replace Photoshop and Gimp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6396474 - Sept 2013 (4 comments)

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by lxe »

Photopea is what I go for when I need an example of a product that's 100% perfect. Pretty much everything about it is polished, quick, intuitive, bug-free, and just works. I've been using it and advocating for it for years. The cost to remove the ads is absolutely worth it too.

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by kitsunesoba »

SparkyMcUnicorn wrote: post #4
foobarian wrote: post #3

> But it has a few problems. It takes up a ton of computing power and battery, which makes it difficult to use on old/slow computers. And the biggest thing, cost. Given it's a Javascript program I'm not sure how Photopea solves those problems with Adobe Photoshop other than cost.

Photopea is very usable on lower-spec machines that grind to a halt when Photoshop is open. It also "boots" almost instantly, and doesn't require installing anything other than a browser.

I wish Adobe sold modernized older versions of Photoshop. For most of my uses PS 7 or CS1 is entirely adequate and those versions ran great on a paltry 400Mhz PowerPC G3 with 128MB of RAM, meaning that it'd be blazing fast on the cheapest modern laptops you can find.

Re: Photopea: A free Photoshop alternative making millions

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Post by TillE »

planetsprite wrote: post #21
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.

A single person run project can enforce UX requirements much better than an open source project.

"An open source project" can be anything, there are plenty out there which are solo endeavors that don't accept substantial contributions.

But I would agree that the classic model of big, slow-moving, design-by-committee open source projects have mostly yielded mediocre results.

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