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Free alternatives to paid software (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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[–] 59 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Idk about the rest of the software on this list, but presenting gimp as an "alternative" to photoshop seems disingenuous to me.

Gimp is an alternative to photoshop in the same way that a 56K modem is an alternative to a 1 gig fiber line. Yes, they technically do the same job. But to suggest that your experience is going to be comparable to photoshop is a stretch.

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  • [–] 37 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I'd suggest Krita before Gimp, and even Affinity (although I'm sure there's a gotcha coming with that one)

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I've been using Photoshop for 24 years and I gave Affinity a try. Affinity still has a lot of kinks to work out. Cross compatibility wrt brushes and tools is spotty at best, unusable at worst. UI and workflow/workspace definitely needs improvement. No right click to adjust brush size and no saveable workspace option was a dealbreaker for me.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    GIMP is also a massive pain in the ass. Paint.net is the one piece of software I still miss after moving to Linux.

    Da Vinci Resolve is great though. Crazy that it's free and Linux compatible.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Yeah GIMP is shit. Anyone who says otherwise has no idea what they’re talking about. Inkscape is better than gimp but still suffers from UI issues.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Depends what you are doing. If you are drawing-krita, if you are manipulating images-gimp, making svg stuff-inkscape. I've been using gimp long enough that the newest photoshop makes me want to crashout.

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  • [+] -7 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Quality features often confuse people.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Nah, pretty sure it was the ai jammed in everything.

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  • [+] -9 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    So then you admit that pre-AI Photoshop was significantly better than gimp. Thanks

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Oh. Hands down. I miss the old creative suites. But the current product? Glitchy pos. Fuck em. Once you use gimp for a few years the pain dulls. Now how you think inkscape is comparable to illustrator is baffling. Is illustrator also a shitshow now?

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  • [+] -11 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I wouldn’t actually know. I don’t use Adobe Products.

    But if you exclude the AI features, and don’t make “anti-ai” your entire personality, gimp is pretty shit

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    ...?? Gimp is what it is. It doesn't hold your hand-and there is admittedly an element of bootstraps. But once you are used to it, it will do what most people need it for.

    Why have such aggressive opinions on software you apparently don't even use?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    The GUI/UX is shit. If you wanna design automated workflows from the shell, it can be quite flexible and powerful.

    Like they used to have a website that would generate tags or like styled text. They used GIMP for the backend image generation. I thought that was a pretty impressive use case.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 weeks ago

    I'm pretty sure GIMP doesn't have any kind of UI or UX contributors… it's all "programmer design", where finding the rectangle select tool takes 5 minutes and it doesn't work the way you want it to

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