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
    35·
    8 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·
      8 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·
        8 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·
          8 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
    221·
    8 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·
    8 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·
    8 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

  • Dymonika@beehaw.org
    72·
    8 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·
        8 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.

  • pacmondo@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    8 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.

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
    4·
    8 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)

  • viking@infosec.pub
    3·
    8 months ago

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

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
    2·
    8 months ago

    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.