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?

  • Dagamant@lemmy.world
    36·
    3 months ago

    It really depends on which features you are looking for. If you just want a solid editor with layers and plugins then gimp is pretty good. You can also try Krita for something a little less cumbersome.

    Unfortunately most of the really nice editors are closed source and only mac/windows

    • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      3 months ago

      Krita is heavily oriented for digital painting. But it is a very solid editor too. The interface took some time to get used to. Though I like it.

      But absolutely, good is subjective. It really depends on your needs. If you’re looking to edit spicy memes anything could work. If you’re looking for non destructive workflow GIMP and krita are starting to implement that. And if you’re looking for traditional publishing specific support, good CMYK, gamut, etc. Not so much to my knowledge? If you just want familiarish… Gimp these days can imitate the classic Photoshop interface okay.

      • NathanUp@lemmy.ml
        6·
        3 months ago

        Krita has CMYK, and very good non-destructive editing these days. It’s my preferred photo editor, including for the occasional magazine ad work I do. It also has great support for PS files, including smart layers, etc, plus it has layer effects, masking, filter layers, GPU accelerated canvas, and G’MIC support covers a lot of the fancier pbotoshop stuff like content-aware fill. IMO, for the workflow and interface alone, it’s leagues ahead of G***.

        • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          I was unaware of the CMYK support. So sounds like maybe apart from gamut tools etc. It’s getting fairly close these days which is good to hear. I’ve generally just been using it for drawing and painting with a little bit of editing. Though I still feel more comfortable editing in Gimp at this point.

  • RayOfSunlight@lemmy.world
    231·
    3 months ago

    If you want to do Photo Manipulation, GIMP is your best option.

    If you wanna do digital painting, Krita is for you.

  • Substance_P@lemmy.world
    112·
    3 months ago

    What a coincidence, I was looking at the same thing today. I kept seeing recommendations for Affinity Photo, apparently it has a wide range of features for both Windows and macOS users. It’s got PSD file support, RAW support, masking, layering, retouching, blemish removal, curving, and a comprehensive set of 16-bit filters.

    It’s around $50 I think but you own the license forever.

    EDIT : I just noticed that this is the Open Source community so I just wanted to mention that Affinity is clearly not that.

  • FrostKing@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 months ago

    Unless you’re incredibly deep into technical functions, Krita is 100% the way to go. Gimp is not horrible, but I have a bias against it, because i found it ridiculously unintuitive and hard to learn to use

  • pacmondo@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    3 months ago

    If you’re really used to photoshop and don’t mind using a webapp I recommend photopea.com

    The UI is super easy to pick up if you’re used to photoshop, and for my purposes it has all the functionality photoshop has. Only downside is it’s a webapp with no local client available as far as I know.

  • Dymonika@beehaw.org
    72·
    3 months ago

    The GIMP has been timelessly heralded. I personally just put up with closed-source IrfanView and Paint.NET, personally.

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
        9·
        3 months ago

        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.

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
    4·
    3 months ago

    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)

  • communism@lemmy.ml
    74·
    3 months ago

    GIMP is the best you’re gonna get unfortunately.

    If you just want something that’s free as in price, honestly the best thing (in terms of functionality only) is pirated photoshop natively on windows. I’ve found PS is kinda crap on Wine.

    Photopea is proprietary so at that point you may as well just pirate photoshop, at least then you’re getting the real thing.

      • communism@lemmy.ml
        2·
        3 months ago

        As in it’s unfortunate that there isn’t a foss photo editor better than gimp (which us quite clunky and awkward to use)

        • RayOfSunlight@lemmy.world
          12·
          3 months ago

          Dude what the hell??? GIMP has a lot of time in development, also, if you really have a problem with the UI, why don’t you report that issue to the Devs instead of whining about it in here?

          • communism@lemmy.ml
            3·
            3 months ago

            Why are you being this defensive? I didn’t say GIMP was bad, I like it and I use it regularly. I just don’t think it’s better than Photoshop is all. I’m sure the devs are actively trying to improve the UI too. This seems like a massive overreaction

  • viking@infosec.pub
    3·
    3 months ago

    When it comes to Photoshop, there is alternative, and there is good. Unfortunately a truly good alternative doesn’t exist.