Bruh, use photopea

If you have a browser, you have photoshop.

We don't need unsafe vibe coded clones, we have clones with actual development and support

Don't need to apply it. It has got stackable filters now. Individually editable and hideable. Works fine with text. So just confirms my theory that all the haters haven't touched it recently. Just like with Linux (they generally don't distinguish between distributions ofc), when people claim you need the console for everything while you mostly don't need it at all.

Someone do Oracle database next so that company can be fully fucked once the AI debt bubble pops

still can't change text after applying a filter in $current_year

I'm not mean enough to call you a joke. I have a lot of respect for what you are and what you can do. But you're no Photoshop dear child.

I'd still rather pirate than use this vibecode though.

It's a viable simple graphics program

Not a viable Photoshop alternative

in the category "viable photoshop alternative", yes

I like the tool, but anyone claiming that it's a true alternative, hasn't touched photoshop since 1996

Sure, Jan

If you read the full sentence, you'll see that I didn't

You literally said that fifty minutes ago.

Never said it's not viable

It's just not an alternative for Photoshop

For super simple stuff is fine, if a little bit cumbersome

So why bother if it's not viable?

Weird, because I do so multiple times a week

I'd say anyone claiming it isn't a viable alternative hasn't touched The Gimp since 1996

in the category "viable photoshop alternative", yes

I like the tool, but anyone claiming that it's a true alternative, hasn't touched photoshop since 1996

A lot of artists I know use Clip Studio Paint, too.

Also Krita, pretty good.

For how many users will the free unfinished or unpolished software be enough? If developers income’s are ripped off by some cat interacting with Claude, then software development outside of the commercial space becomes available only to those who are willing to do so at the expense of their own time.

This is proof that Adobe could make it work if they wanted to but choose not to.

There is a law in software engineering called "ninety-ninety rule"

The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of development time; the remaining 10% accounts for the other 90%.

which can be interpreted as "final touches are the most difficult".

I think it is also true for vibecoding. As seen in a video I've posted, although the app works, there are some small faults yet to be fixed. And as seen in commit history of PhotoCraft - the work isn't finished, it currently intensifies

Fuck Adobe, obvs. But I wonder how this is going to affect small time devs, who are trying to carve out a living by working on a passion project.

Open source alternatives to paid apps will always exist, but require skill and effort to create. Some guy prompting AI to make a knockoff BetterTouchTool doesn’t sit quite right.

PhotoPea: If you hate yourself, you can even use me on a phone.

It's been a few years.
I can check it out again and make a list, if you'd like.

Agreed. Gimp is fine. Its takes a minute for me to figure out where the thing is I want to do. But after thats its easy.

I dont use it (or Photoshop) all that often though.

Does forever work for you?

Any actual complaints other than the fact that the UI isn't identical?