- 19 days
figma is not free software, and neither is davinci resolve. use penpot and kdenlive.
- 19 days
Free as in beer, not as in speech, and DaVinci Resolve at least has a $295 upgrade for additional features, although last time I looked that upgrade is included with certain hardware purchases from Blackmagic.
- 19 days
Yea it’s not free but it’s a once off, keep for ever price.
I’m happy with that
- 19 days
I still like the traditional model for paid software where you pay once, and then future major upgrades can be purchased for a discount; it seems like a fair way for the developer to support continued development while allowing the customer to decide if they prefer to stay on an older version.
- 18 days
Yea I’m completely stepping away from all subscriptions.
The only subscriptions I will pay for is for things like Email etc.
As the person offering the service needs to keep their servers running etc.
- 19 days
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.
I’d suggest Krita before Gimp, and even Affinity (although I’m sure there’s a gotcha coming with that one)
- 19 days
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.
- 19 days
But is Gimp Affinity’s Gimp? Or is there competition there?
- 19 days
Krita is the way to go. Even has AI retouching add-on if you’re into that.
- 19 days
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.
- 19 days
I’m switching to Linux right now and I haven’t really looked into replacements for each piece of software. Used Paint.net for at least 10 years, tried Gimp first but didn’t like it. What do you use?
- 19 days
Try Pinta. Unless you do digital painting/illustration, then go for Krita.
- 18 days
Dunno how advanced its vector graphics features are, but krita does support making them at least, you could try that. The overall interface is good at least.
19 daysGimpshop i think it’s called at least tries to make the GIMP workflow and UX (including keyboard short cuts) not completely, well, gimped.
- 18 days
The image doesn’t say it’s a replacement, it says it’s an alternative. What piece of sofware would you suggest instead?
- kibblebits@quokk.auEnglish19 days
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.
- 19 days
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.
- kibblebits@quokk.auEnglish19 days
So then you admit that pre-AI Photoshop was significantly better than gimp. Thanks
- 19 days
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?
- kibblebits@quokk.auEnglish19 days
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
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.
- Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish19 days
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
- 19 days
Maybe a version or two behind on extra stuff, but core features And workflow are very similar.
- 19 days
Gimp is apparently great if you start with it, but it is not a substitute for Photoshop.
- VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish19 days
Photopea. It’s not open-source but it’s “freemium”. It’s like a web Photoshop.
- chunkystyles@sopuli.xyzEnglish18 days
Davinci Resolve has a free version that is missing some features. They are important features, mind. But it definitely allows you to edit videos and get a good feel for the software to see if you want to purchase it or you can just keep using the free version even.
So it’s free*.
And the paid version is buy once and get a perpetual license. Very non-scummy for a full professional video editing tool.
On linux I just use Blender for video editing, it does about 95% of what I need
- 18 days
A better, free-er alternative to figma would be something like Penpot which works pretty well and is easy to self-host.
- 19 days
Krita, definitely, though it’s still not as complete in capability it’s a much better analogue
- 19 days
Krita is mostly for digital artists and digital painting, while GIMP is more for image editing. They aren’t made for the same purpose, even though both can do simple stuff from both worlds.
- 18 days
Yeahhh, I never understood that. It can’t be that difficult to make a circle tool, right?
To be honest, I don’t know how difficult it would really be, and I know it can be done with plugins. I also know it’s not a tool that you end up using that much with the more advanced workflows (I myself haven’t really needed it in a long time), but it would be nice if we had it.
- Zwiebel@feddit.orgEnglish19 days
Isn’t krita for painting and photoshop for photo editing? Does krita do RAW, color grading and such?
- 19 days
Whenever I open GIMP I always feel like an 18th century taxonomist’s first time seeing a platypus and assuming it’s an elaborate hoax cooked up by someone with far too much time on their hands. Surely this isn’t software made by humans to do useful things!? This must be a joke!
- 18 days
Difference beeing, you can download resolve onto your pc and use it forever without updating, even if they decide to cancel the free version or get bankrupt. Figma runs entirely web based and if Adobe buys it it can be killed off at any point.
- CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish19 days
Blender is an alternative to 3DS Max in the same way an actual car is an alternative to flintstoning a burnt out wreck. Even in college a lot of our very basic rendering exercises with Max got the whole grade just on demonstrating correct setup because the software is so prone to crashing or taking 20h to do what most alternatives (paid or free) can do in 20 minutes.
You’re saying Blender is better? I’ve only used Blender, but I would believe it. It’s like opposite of how I feel about GIMP.
- CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish18 days
Yeh, admittedly I have a lot more experience with blender than 3DS Max, but from performance differences alone I’m pretty sure if Max released today without its massive pre-existing industry adoption it would be laughed out of the room.
- 19 days
Don’t forget about FreeCad!
They had an update earlier this year that really closed the gap on a lot of features and tools they were missing compared to other more established cad packages.
- AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish19 days
Yeah its insane, i actually feel like im using fully fledged 3d mechanical modelling software now.
- chunkystyles@sopuli.xyzEnglish18 days
I like Freecad. I use it because it’s FOSS. But it’s not as easy to use, sadly.
- 19 days
It tends to be pretty straightforward about what an alternative can and can’t do. The tags work well for searching so you can exclude paid or freemium apps.
- 19 days
You couldn’t pay me to use Adobe. The predatory pricing, required internet, Linux incompatability, file scanning, Adobe Bridge, bad privacy policy, bloated install, useless launcher, DRM, and use of AI offends me.
- 19 days
Lol the funniest part is I have a dual Bachelor’s in CS and Graphic Design, and can spell technophobic correctly
- Kite@sh.itjust.worksEnglish19 days
You can theme it to change icons and sizes and such, which helps a little. But I agree, the interface is a nightmare. Ever since v3 came out, my layers window has disappeared and I can’t find it. That’s a kind of important panel to hide away :(
- 19 days
Try either crtl +L or from the top menu Windows > dockable dialogs > Layers
You couldn’t pay me to use Gimp. The interface offends me.
Try Photogimp
Gimp 3 is actually a massive improvement and they are releasing updates on a routine basis now. Try Photogimp if you like a more standard interface and layout
- 18 days
Well… For quick text insertion, meme creation, or some very basic photo editing I still boot up Gimp.
But yeah… The newest version of Gimp feels like they updated from a very out dated version to a mostly out dated version.
- 9 days
That tracks. I’m just tired of hearing the Gimpstans glorify it as the next replacement for Photoshop. Like, no bro, it didn’t happen in 20 years it ain’t happening now either.
- 19 days
Yeah…GIMP is kinda shit. It’s probably the one app I’d pay Adobe for to not use GIMP.
- \\\mr\rnd;@lemmy.zipEnglish18 days
lol, I feel you,
you should try Affinity Studio. It’s Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign in one
- 19 days
Important one:
Adobe acrobat: fork to the eyes. (Jokes aside, I’m using Stirling pdf viewer right now, it’s nice)
- 19 days
I need a Lightroom alternative, on linux.
Edit: Looks like rawtherapee is a good one. Funky name though…- 19 days
Its always the Linux app names… Surprised Klitoris doesn’t exist yet.
- 19 days
Never really used Lightroom, only looked at the interface once or twice. But I think Digikam could be an alternative to replace it.
- 19 days
I’m also in search for a light room replacement but heard dark table has better raw processing.
Also another q: can rawtherapee can catalogue videos?
