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[–] scholar@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

What do you mean ?

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 23 hours ago

69 Quite Bitter Beings have been waiting for this for some time

[–] m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I still remember looking at it (with its super cool sports car illustration) at the top result(s) at Sourceforge (when Sourceforge was the hub for all things open source, back in 2006), downloading each update from whatever computer from uni and bringing it back home to doddle stuff. Inkscape always was in my top 5 tools for uni along with GIMP (and Krita afterwards), Imagemagick, ConTeXt and MetaPost.

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Inkscape is fantastic. It's easier to learn than Ai and you don't have to pay for it.

[–] earth_walker@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Been using Inkscape for about 15 years, probably the most enjoyable software I've ever used!

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I wish the Inkscape team would make a raster option. GIMP is just lagging, and we need a solid pixel pusher.

[–] IceVAN@beehaw.org 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Gimp just released 3.0 rc1.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 5 points 1 day ago

This would complicate the code behind Inkscape and the user interface a lot. It's not just having an option to enable raster editing, the entire program must be rewritten, because its not designed to do raster editing. If they started with raster editing, it would be lacking too and the horrors from users would never end. I rather want Inkscape stay focused to what its doing best.

Either use GIMP or Krita. There are already excellent or good enough image editing tools.

[–] earth_walker@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Krita is good for illustrating and painting

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah that looked good. I just need a photoshop replacement with a modern UI

[–] earth_walker@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The thing is Photoshop does a lot of different stuff, like photo manipulation, painting, and pixel art. But it's not really the best at anything besides photo manipulation probably. So it depends on what you want to do with it.

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I need to be able to edit photos, raw files, lossless options, with layers, and a wide selection of touch up tools that can be content aware.

Photoshop is perfect, but I’m not paying for a subscription to a product that I realistically don’t need updates for.

I’d be totally fine using my old copy of photoshop CS if it would run anymore.

Gimp just had a lot of odd UI choices.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 2 points 7 hours ago
[–] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] menemen@lemmy.ml 4 points 22 hours ago

I'd also have a look at Darktable.

[–] jlow@beehaw.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You have checked Krita? I'm not doing much so it's more than enough for me.

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, but it’s a little too much about illustration for me. It’s great for that! I just need more of a pixel pusher.

[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

unlike its gimp brother