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Which proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why? (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Again, just my opinion, but I prefer Krita to any FLOSS alternative. I've been designing professionally for over a decade, using Adobe for most of it; Krita is my preferred FLOSS tool for photo editing, and I've tried them all.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm surprised, I never managed to use it efficiently for that purpose. Perhaps AffinityPhoto spoiled me a bit. I love Krita for illustration work though, nothing compares... As far as commercial alternatives go, I haven't tried Clip Paint although everybody praises it- but I don't really feel the need to. Apparently it's excellent?

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 years ago

    Yea, the workflow is a bit different. Not having a concept of fill opacity as separate from layer opacity forced me to change the way I do certain things, and having certain retouching tools grouped with the brushes was confusing at first.

    For years, I didn't use anything besides Adobe CC, because it's "industry standard," so I've never given anything like Affinity a go in earnest.

    With all FLOSS design tools, I had to have a bit of a reckoning with myself; like most people, at first I thought they were unintuitive, until I was able to have a bit of objectivity and found that most of the issues I had with them didn't arise because they were unintuitive; it was just because they didn't work like Adobe tools, which are themselves complex tools that you really can't just pick up on your own without some degree of instruction.

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