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  • pierce_b_architect
    4·
    3 years ago

    I’m scared. I dual-boot windows just for some very specific school assignments. I don’t want it to do any updating, just stay on windows 10 and leave me alone. God I want to purge this shit from my laptop. (only reason that it is not a vm is for performance)

  • Evan
    51·
    3 years ago

    Dear god I wish I could get off windows. The last thing keeping me is photo editing. I tried gimp but it just does not compete (speaking of witch, open source Flickr/500px clone when?). I am looking for anything, even closed source, that works on Linux and can rival Photoshop/affinity photo.

    edit: I get people like me are frustrating, it’s always the next thing, but I truly think I can reluctantly deal with inkscape and make the switch if I find something

    • freely
      2·
      3 years ago

      Maybe check out Krita.

      Although what’s wrong with GIMP? It might not be pretty, but I thought it was pretty feature-full.

      • MarcellusDrum
        4·
        3 years ago

        Nothing wrong with GIMP by itself, but when compared to Photoshop, it is not really the same. Photoshop’s tools have a “works like magic” feel to them, its hard to describe. Gimp in comparison does feel a bit rough. Also it has a few missing features for the really advanced users.

        • DessalinesA
          2·
          3 years ago

          I have no familiarity with photoshop, but can’t you do like 95% of what it can do with GIMP? GIMP isn’t very user-friendly, I’ll def agree with that.

          • Evan
            3·
            3 years ago

            I want to echo what drum wrote. Gimp can do everything photoshop does, but in photoshop it’s so smooth, things feel like magic when you do them, its fluid, rarely popup windows, things update instantaneously as you write and drag sliders, the UI is not programmer art, etc.

            After years of GIMP use when I obtained ps after just a few weeks I was hooked

    • ⁠ ︎
      2·
      3 years ago

      There’s Photopea, it runs in the browser and has most of the features that Photoshop has, I’m pretty sure there’s even an (unofficial) offline version on GitHub as well.

      • Evan
        2·
        3 years ago

        Eww electron, but seriously, will look, fingers crossed

    • nachtigall@feddit.de
      1·
      3 years ago

      I am not sure about how powerful it is but you could take a look at Photopea which is (at least by design) a PS clone running in the web browser.

      • Evan
        1·
        3 years ago

        Looks like its closed source, but I suppose I will try it

      • Evan
        2·
        3 years ago

        Yes, but its not “professional” oriented, although the quality tends to be higher than instagram. Px/Flickr offer portfolios, show metadata like focal length, camera, and lens, and let photographers sell their work. Maybe it gets a pro mode for instances in the future