cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/13484687
Looking for a good photoshop alternate
I’ve looked everywhere and I can’t anything any suggestions?
First choice GIMP. Then, Digikam has an image editor that provides a number of tools. Not as detailed and sophisticated as GIMP but does most things needed.
Krita does the job for 90% of the edits I ever do.
The GIMP has been timelessly heralded. I personally just put up with closed-source IrfanView and Paint.NET, personally.
Wow, thanks, I’d never heard of this before! I’ll pick it up.
Looking for a photo editor more than a painting tool
Good news, the GNU Image Manipulation Program is designed for manipulating photos
I don’t think anyone uses Gimp for painting or drawing. It has the filters and extensions and tools which make it useful for cleaning up or editing photographic imagery.
If I’m looking to paint or draw, I fire up Krita, not Gimp.
There’s Darktable for handling photos, as well, but that’s an alternative for Lightroom, not Photoshop.
GIMP and darktable work well for photo editing.
Photopea – online, but can be used as a PWA. One of the best!
The closest is photopea. Not gimp, I’m afraid.
If you want to try some hacking:
Install GIMP beta from Flathub-beta (see my repo list which contains it as an example
And try to add the theme PhotoGimp
As Gimp 3.0 is nearly done, Photogimp likely needs an update as its made for GTK2.
GIMP 3 introduces some necessary features that are a base requirement for graphics design, nondestructive filters and color profiles (if you want to print)
While GIMP is my favorite general purpose image editor, it lacks a few very important features. In example there are no simple and easy tools to create and manipulate shapes, lacks any non destructive diting features and layers. But they are working on it and 1 or 2 months a big update is coming, with some major improvements in non destructive layer features.
Krita is also an excellent tool. While it has a focus and marketing on painting, it is still good enough to edit any image similar to GIMP. Even the popular effects addon GMIC can be used. There are bunch of non destructive effect layers, directly integrated vectors with enough shape tools. But on the other hand the text tool is abysmal, compared to GIMP.
It highly depends on what you expect from a Photoshop alternative and what you want do.
When it comes to Photoshop, there is alternative, and there is good. Unfortunately a truly good alternative doesn’t exist.