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.
The first item on your list should have been to try Gimp ?
I’ll add that you can’t just “try” gimp really, you’ll have to learn some new workflows for sure, but yeah, should’ve been top of the list, it’s THE alternative.
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.
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.
I can recommend PhotoGIMP which makes GIMP UI fairly close to Ps.
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.
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.
Do people still like https://www.photopea.com/ ?
There are ways to bypass some of the issues. But for me, what works the best, is to get used to use the tool that fits the job best, and sometimes that’s two or three tools for the same project. It’s exactly if I do some woodwork (carpenter work), I might use both a saw, a hammer, a chisel, a drill and a screwdriver… It really doesn’t bother me, to use more apps to create something I’m satisfied with. :-)
Inkscape, Gimp, Krita is my most used apps on Linux… :-) On SloWindows it’s mostly Inkscape and Affinity…
From what I know you’ll have to compose with a mix of Krita GIMP and Inkscape because those are the three most reliable and feature rich FOSS image editors at this time. In the current capitalist mode of production, free software will hardly be on the level of paid software, however enshittified, because of how many devs get to work full time on it.
Keep in mind that I say this while operating fully on a FOSS environment, because the relative increase in features and reliability doesn’t justify going from free to an absurdly high subscription
I just use gimp, but for the record, someone recently got modern Photoshop working in wine
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.
There’s a github project called PhotoGIMP that makes the GIMP UI feel a lot like photoshop, aimed at transitioning users.
Edit: here
Interesting, thanks guy’s!
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.
try also https://www.affinity.studio/ by Canva, free and run on linux great
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.
Krita is what I use but I also find text handling difficult so I always do text last.
