wltr comments on Alternatives for Photoshop?

submitted 9 months ago by roserose56@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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.

[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 9 months ago* (5 children)

Last time I used it, it wasn’t ready for a Retina HiDPI screen (MacBooks since 2013), but I might want to double-check that. I remember the icons were pixelated. And I’m very sure it did not work on Wayland, which generates a bunch of weird bugs / issues for a multi-monitor setup. I never work with just one display. So, I can use it when I have to, but most times I prefer Gimp. Haven’t been opening Krita for over a year or so. Text editing is a gimp too. Apart from that, the interface wasn’t that bad as it is with Gimp, that’s for sure. Overall, I believe that’s actually a pretty nice program, Krita.

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Well, I use an XP Pen display tablet, so effectively a second monitor. I've used both Krita on Ubuntu using X11 (in 2024 and before) and since the start of 2025 been using Bazzite which uses Wayland.

Can't say I've run into any display specific issues. Pen tracking gave me some trouble, but it was some setting in KDE and Open Tablet Driver I had to play with to fix that.

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[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

My issue was that when run through XWayland, Krita would work only on the primary display (no concept of that in Wayland) with 0,0 coordinates. So, if I’m on a laptop, it would work only on the primary (laptop) screen, but not the external one. I have a script that reorganises my workspaces and makes the external display the primary one, then runs Krita. But it would never work on any other display, if I wanted to use that too, for some multi monitor setup.

I may want to try that again, perhaps that was some bug that was fixed. But I’m surely not going to use X instead of Wayland for Krita.

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Interesting. I've never experienced this. Back when Wayland wasn't even considered as a main display server yet there were problems with resolution scaling and desktop sizes, but... Straight up not working?

Hmm... But what do you mean with it doesn't work? How doesn't/didn't it work? What prevented you from, say, opening Krita and just dragging the window to the monitor you want?

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[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

The window is unresponsive to clicks, so the mouse never works. You can drag it to the main laptop’s screen, but my laptop is small and the external screen is big, so it’s not useful to have such an app opened on a tiny screen. There are workarounds, but having a native Wayland app is just much more useful than hacking around. Last time I checked (was quite a long time ago, up to a year ago) the development wasn’t too focused on Wayland. I hope they’d do at some point, as overall Krita is good.

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[+] RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

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[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 9 months ago

I should have mentioned it more clearly that this could be a combination of bugs, not necessarily a Krita bug. Because this issue is not only with Krita, but many (or even all) XWayland apps. All Wine apps shared this too. So, the primary issue is that it needs XWayland instead of being Wayland-native.

I use Sway on Arch Linux, and Gnome on Fedora. I haven’t been doing anything on Fedora for years, as it’s a shared family computer and it has just one display. So, I expect it would be good there. To my memory, it was. I was trying various graphical things, even Photoshop and Illustrator with Wine, and they were mostly working too.

I think I could issue a DE for drawing sessions, when needed, if that solves the issue. So, thanks for mentioning that it’s issues-free on KDE. It’s more obvious to me now that actually Krita is a KDE thing, after all.

But, honestly, it feels the same as doing my hacky scripts to mitigate the bug. I’d love it to just work, that’s why I mention I hope it would be Wayland native one day.