I need a Lightroom alternative, on linux.
Edit: Looks like rawtherapee is a good one. Funky name though…Its always the Linux app names… Surprised Klitoris doesn’t exist yet.
I’m also in search for a light room replacement but heard dark table has better raw processing.
Also another q: can rawtherapee can catalogue videos?
Never really used Lightroom, only looked at the interface once or twice. But I think Digikam could be an alternative to replace it.
Darktable is what you are looking for.
You couldn’t pay me to use Gimp. The interface offends me.
You couldn’t pay me to use Gimp. The interface offends me.
Try Photogimp
You couldn’t pay me to use Adobe. The predatory pricing, required internet, Linux incompatability, file scanning, Adobe Bridge, bad privacy policy, bloated install, useless launcher, DRM, and use of AI offends me.
Techphobic, nonprofessional opinion.
Lol the funniest part is I have a dual Bachelor’s in CS and Graphic Design, and can spell technophobic correctly
can you spell inferiority complex?
You can theme it to change icons and sizes and such, which helps a little. But I agree, the interface is a nightmare. Ever since v3 came out, my layers window has disappeared and I can’t find it. That’s a kind of important panel to hide away :(
Try either crtl +L or from the top menu Windows > dockable dialogs > Layers
Important one:
Adobe acrobat: fork to the eyes. (Jokes aside, I’m using Stirling pdf viewer right now, it’s nice)
OpenShot is also a remarkably capable and easy-to-use video editor - https://www.openshot.org/ . I use it almost daily for editing screen capture videos.
Figma ballz
Not much what’s updog with you?
What’s up dog?
Blender is an alternative to 3DS Max in the same way an actual car is an alternative to flintstoning a burnt out wreck. Even in college a lot of our very basic rendering exercises with Max got the whole grade just on demonstrating correct setup because the software is so prone to crashing or taking 20h to do what most alternatives (paid or free) can do in 20 minutes.
You’re saying Blender is better? I’ve only used Blender, but I would believe it. It’s like opposite of how I feel about GIMP.
Is there anything to sort of replace InDesign? I am doing cruel, time consuming, and unspeakable things with latex atm.
Isn’t that the best way to spend time with latex, though? … oh. oh wait, you don’t mean bdsm…
honestly, it does not feel dissimilar.
There is Libre office draw and scribus that I know of.
Gimp instead of Krita???
who the fuck does image editing in krita?
This image is crusty
This year i first saw an ad for Photoshop, i see this as a sign of them losing. Keep up the good work folk!
edit: RAW image editing
Not a good product name 😬
Wow that was a RISKY click based on that URL
Gimp is apparently great if you start with it, but it is not a substitute for Photoshop.
Krita had been great for most of my work.
Can confirm. Never used photoshop, Gimp seems fine to me.
Photopea. It’s not open-source but it’s “freemium”. It’s like a web Photoshop.
Affinity Studio should be added, not FOSS but free. I t has a polished UI
I don’t speak polish though
Idk about the rest of the software on this list, but presenting gimp as an “alternative” to photoshop seems disingenuous to me.
Gimp is an alternative to photoshop in the same way that a 56K modem is an alternative to a 1 gig fiber line. Yes, they technically do the same job. But to suggest that your experience is going to be comparable to photoshop is a stretch.
Yeah GIMP is shit. Anyone who says otherwise has no idea what they’re talking about. Inkscape is better than gimp but still suffers from UI issues.
Depends what you are doing. If you are drawing-krita, if you are manipulating images-gimp, making svg stuff-inkscape. I’ve been using gimp long enough that the newest photoshop makes me want to crashout.
Quality features often confuse people.
Nah, pretty sure it was the ai jammed in everything.
So then you admit that pre-AI Photoshop was significantly better than gimp. Thanks
Oh. Hands down. I miss the old creative suites. But the current product? Glitchy pos. Fuck em. Once you use gimp for a few years the pain dulls. Now how you think inkscape is comparable to illustrator is baffling. Is illustrator also a shitshow now?
I wouldn’t actually know. I don’t use Adobe Products.
But if you exclude the AI features, and don’t make “anti-ai” your entire personality, gimp is pretty shit
I’m pretty sure GIMP doesn’t have any kind of UI or UX contributors… it’s all “programmer design”, where finding the rectangle select tool takes 5 minutes and it doesn’t work the way you want it to
The GUI/UX is shit. If you wanna design automated workflows from the shell, it can be quite flexible and powerful.
Like they used to have a website that would generate tags or like styled text. They used GIMP for the backend image generation. I thought that was a pretty impressive use case.
Imagemagick.
GIMP is also a massive pain in the ass. Paint.net is the one piece of software I still miss after moving to Linux.
Da Vinci Resolve is great though. Crazy that it’s free and Linux compatible.
I’m switching to Linux right now and I haven’t really looked into replacements for each piece of software. Used Paint.net for at least 10 years, tried Gimp first but didn’t like it. What do you use?
Try Pinta. Unless you do digital painting/illustration, then go for Krita.
The image doesn’t say it’s a replacement, it says it’s an alternative. What piece of sofware would you suggest instead?
Photopea is pretty good for casual use
Gimpshop i think it’s called at least tries to make the GIMP workflow and UX (including keyboard short cuts) not completely, well, gimped.
I’d suggest Krita before Gimp, and even Affinity (although I’m sure there’s a gotcha coming with that one)
I’ve been using Photoshop for 24 years and I gave Affinity a try. Affinity still has a lot of kinks to work out. Cross compatibility wrt brushes and tools is spotty at best, unusable at worst. UI and workflow/workspace definitely needs improvement. No right click to adjust brush size and no saveable workspace option was a dealbreaker for me.
Same with Inkscape IMO. Anyone have a different alternative?
