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[–] [email protected] 510 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Some brilliant people invented photoshop

It was a good product but expensive

Some asshole coke head CEO decided to make it more expensive and worse.

Fuck adobe.

GIMP 3 FTW

[–] [email protected] 185 points 1 month ago (10 children)

And they bought Macromedia’s suite and destroyed it.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I miss macromedia flash so bad, actionscript for life

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I once built a website preloader that was so large that I made a pre-preloader for it. Good times indeed.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A flash preloader was my first real tech job! As I recall, they stiffed my last paycheck and went under later.

But it was incredibly fun and I made connections that steered my career to a new direction for the next decade.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Agreed, the wildest of wests.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Fireworks for me. I miss that whole suite though.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Fireworks had so much potential as a web design app and they threw it away.

Illustrator and InDesign were too focused on print media and Photoshop could barely comprehend anything unless it was rasterized.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

That's what big tech companies do, they buy small and promissing companies they think that once can become a competitor and then.... destroy it. The young startups just take the money and can retire early.

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

And they bought Paintshop pro and destroyed it

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[–] [email protected] 125 points 1 month ago (2 children)

GIMP 3, Krita, Darktable, Inkscape, Kdenlive

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The people editing their images in Blender are the same people who edit their videos in Blender lol.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

You say that like it’s a bad thing lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Has it gotten better with editing? I tried a couple of years ago and just couldn't. It's amazing for the 3d software. If they could make it easier to measure things, I'd use it for CAD too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (8 children)

FreeCAD for CAD as others mentioned.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I believe i recall there being an update specifically to the video editor within the past year or two, but don’t quote me on that. They have done updates to post processing, the timeline functionality, grease pencil, and i believe some other things that would apply to video editing, so i imagine it would be easier to work with. There are cad and measuring add-ons as well, i believe some free within blender itself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I bought Davinci, so I'm happy with that, but I'll still check out the Blender version. I can't really complain about it, it does so much and is free.

As far as CAD goes, they aren't really usable to be fast in CAD. It's super cumbersome. You should be able to move things 1" to the right or left, put things at certain heights and move around the space in an easy way. I haven't found anything that can do that for imperial. Also, the tools for making dimensions is really bad and I don't think there's a way to make a blueprint unless you come up with something yourself. That being said, it's free and it's not their focus. They concentrate on the 3D portions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I've started using FreeCAD for CAD work, I've used Fusion 360 for 5 years before trying FreeCAD (again, I tried it a few years ago) and it works pretty good.

It's different and it's taking some getting used to but it's working out quite nicely so far.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

If the units are set to inches for length. You can just type G (grab), X (or Y or Z), and 1 to move an inch in any direction. I think it used to be worse.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

It doesn't do it natively, but it does have plugins for CAD features

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Maybe I'm doing too much engineering - I found Open SCAD to be way easier than Blender for making stuff, and that's saying something because Open SCAD is quite a pain.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

FreeCAD (for less-organic modeling)

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I (distantly) knew an indie software developer who was putting up a pretty good Photoshop alternative in 1996: ONE GUY alone in his bedroom was making a decent living selling a Photoshop alternative that he wrote himself. And he wasn't exactly a super-wunderkind coder, just a guy who knew the photo manipulation space well enough to get enough customers to float selling his software for a few years - in direct competition with Photoshop.

Adobe isn't selling magic dust ground from precious gemstones by thousands of artisans. They had a decent product that they marketed the hell out of and eventually got overly greedy.

GIMP, Krita, and many others are right up there if you haven't been sucked into the Adobe addiction vortex.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Krita is awesome with a drawing pad

And I'm not like even good at doing anything

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

I use GIMP, but you can't compare it to Photoshop. GIMP has a horrible GUI and it has very strange design choices.

The Affinity suite is comparable to Photoshop, but it's a paid product.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Affinity Photo for me!

I'd prefer FOSS but...GIMP ain't it.

Have used Photopea in* a bind in the past, it's also pretty good especially the clone GUI.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I moved to Affinity early this year, and it has been amazing!! I was expecting a long adjustment period after decades with Photoshop, but it's so similar that I picked it up super quick!

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

Another vote for Affinity. Excellent Adobe alternatives 1-time reasonable price. Such a breath of fresh air after so many subs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Just an FYI that you might want to get some practice in with some Affinity alternatives, because they've been purchased by Canva, and so enshittification might set in any time.

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

Bought out by Canva, I also currently love it, but I don't expect that to last.

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

Krita is my graphics app of choice these days. But there are many alternatives that are great (like Gimp and Photopea).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Krita is my graphics app of choice these days.

So much of Krita is great and then there is the text tool which is still a heap of trash.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

New update coming for that soon!

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

I still remember when they bought Macromedia Flash and all my animator friends and I simply couldn't stand Adobe Flash CS3 or whatever it was called. It used more resources, crashed more often and didn't exactly bring anything revolutionary to the table in terms of new functions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Some brilliant people invented photoshop

So the real question is whether Photoshop might ever have become successful, if Adobe hadn't bought it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel like I should have switched to GIMP a decade ago.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

The best time to switch was 10 years ago. The second best time to switch is right now.

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