Hello fediverse penguins!
Being in Linux for 2+ years, I have found alternative solutions for the apps I used on windows. But I can’t find something like Photoshop.
I started using Krita, which is amazing and does lots of things I do, but the text editor when I try to resize text, it just ruins it and gets blurry sometimes. Then I found inkscape, which was good for, text and everything else worked fine, but not much of photo editor.
So what next? any recommendations ?
I also use kdenlive for video editing, and rawtherapee for DSLR photos editing.
GIMP and Krita are aimed at Photoshop, while RawTherapee and Darktable are aimed at Lightroom, and Inkscape is aimed at Illustrator.
But their hands are shaking too much, so they aim, but at the wrong things. I wish any of them could find some UX designers. I forgot about the text editing in Krita, that was horrible indeed.
Rawtherapee is really fucking good, I used it on Windows before discovering Linux
Well, for image manipulation, I can only think of GIMP as I have been using it for close to 2 decades. But because I have barely scratched the surface of what you can do with it, I don’t know if it would be a suitable replacement for your use-case. Also of note, its UI is definitely not a one-to-one reproduction of Photoshop’s, so it will require some getting used to.
It’s Photoshop CS2 in your browser
Photo editing: darktable
Digital Art: Krita
Illustrator type stuff: InkscapePain: Gimp. although the PhotoGIMP plugin makes it bearable.
OR wait for the recent wine patch to mature a bit more and then you can literally just use Photoshop.
Do people still like https://www.photopea.com/ ?
Personally I use GIMP. Been my photoshop replacement for at least a good 5ish years now, and it’s come a long way! It has (imo) a pretty intuitive interface so it doesn’t take too long to acclimate.
Affinity
Someone just recently managed to get it going.
I have been looking at Affinity as a sub for InDesign. I have never actually tried it though. Does it work on Linux?
I dropped Adobe a few years ago, I do love inscape, however yeh it has limitations, gimp for photos. Not found anything to good with text. Been back and forward with Scribus but it’s just so awkward.
I used Affinity on Mac and Windows. It was the affordable, well-thought-out, performant Photoshop competitor and is now free to use (with a Canva account). Some folks got it running with wine and there is an easy to use appimage ( see articlke )/
I got it running easily, but didn’t test it fully, yet.
Yeh I don’t wanna be faffing with wine…that’s what held me back last time I looked. Didn’t even mind the one off fee for affinity I’d rather pay that and know it’s mine TBH. Curious if can a will eventually make it subscription.
I was fine buying it, too. Now, I bet they will integrate it into their online services in order to have people hooked up.
Since no one else has said it… Pixelorama is somewhat focused on making pixel art and animations, but it’s great at what it does.
WOAH. How have I not seen this? Looks like a fantastic alternative to Aseprite!
I just use gimp, but for the record, someone recently got modern Photoshop working in wine
The first item on your list should have been to try Gimp ?
What are you doing with photoshop? If it’s mostly photo editing, it’s darktable that you’re looking for.
Photo editing, adding text and cutting more. Thanks, I will have a check.
I know you said “alternatives to Photoshop” but if you don’t find any, this video shows that you can run Photoshop on Linux now. Try it and see if it works for you
Scrolled down to see if some had mentioned this. I think the 2018 version of Photoshop worked the best iirc. Also Wayland may have issues with Drag and Drop.
Gimp and Darktable should do the trick !
the text editor when I try to resize text, it just ruins it and gets blurry sometimes.
I dunno what you’re doing but… When you resize text, you usually want to select the text and increase the font size. Sometimes you can render to vector and resize that. But if you resize the text as pixels, then it’ll probably look bad. Generally I try not to render text to pixels or do that last if necessary.
As someone already pointed out, try to increase font size first.
I personally use a Vector layer and put text there (not sure if it even works in paint layer). For making it bigger you can then just grab the corner with Select Shapes Tool and resize it. If it doesn’t work, enable Scale Styles in the Tool Options docker.
