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Looking for a good photoshop alternate (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you're into Paint.NET, check out Pinta; it's basically Paint.NET (inspired by it) but open source and works on all 3 major OS's.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Wow, thanks, I'd never heard of this before! I'll pick it up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Looking for a photo editor more than a painting tool

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Good news, the GNU Image Manipulation Program is designed for manipulating photos

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

GIMP and darktable work well for photo editing.