Would you say Inkscape is closer to Illustrator than GIMP is to Photoshop?
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chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoHaving used both for years, Photoshop is a better product by miles. It’s not even close.
Inkscape, QGIS, Blender, OBS, Jellyfin - there’s lots of GOSS products that blow the commercial stuff out of the water.
GIMP is not one of them.
Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes. But I actually find Inkscape to be better. On vectors with especially high numbers of vertices (e.g. contour map exports from QGIS), Photoshop just gives up while Inkscape chugs right along.
Flukeyfox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
It’s a shame it’s not open source, but I’ve found Affinity to be a great alternative to Photoshop + Illustrator. Especially with them recently going free. I’ve always felt GIMP has been a little… Lacking. I hope one day it has that large burst of development and catches up, like how Blender did so long ago… As I’ll always prefer open source.
I’m sadly stuck with Adobe for stuff like Substance Painter + Designer for now :/
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
At this point I don’t think GIMP will ever have a competent UI. All the people contributing to it are those who like working with GIMP and don’t actually want a massive UI overhaul.
But just opening a ficking folder with lots of large image files in it alone makes GIMP nearly unusable for me. I don’t love waiting 2 minutes to name and save a fucking document.
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
since it’s foss and i hope the ui is written disentangled from the functionality, it should be easy to develop an alternative ui. i haven’t checked now if they exist, as I’m not using it myself, but it’s probably worth a try, if you do.
Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Aren’t there GIMP plugins to match the Photoshop UI?