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[โ€“] Mothra@mander.xyz 57 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Krita is closer to Photoshop than Gimp, although still not up to it. Just in case you ever need PS, try krita first.

[โ€“] MrMamiya@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks Iโ€™ll remember that just in case!

[โ€“] scorpious@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Photopea is good for most tasks

[โ€“] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Krita is excellent for painting, not very good for image editing though.

[โ€“] NathanUp@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hard disagree. I use it all the time for photo editing.

[โ€“] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, there's better tools out there

[โ€“] NathanUp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[โ€“] NathanUp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year 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.

[โ€“] CybranM@feddit.nu 1 points 1 year ago

Krita is a drawing program not really a photo editor like PS/Gimp. Paint.net was a pretty good PSlite last time I tried it

[โ€“] zer0@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago

Krita has g'mic and it's open source. It's photoshop that is still not up to there