▲ 109 ▼ Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt in Rust and released it as OSS (bsky.app) submitted 1 month ago by rssbot@lemmy.bestiver.se [B] to c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se 38 comments fedilink hide all child comments Comments
[–] aReallyCrunchyLeaf@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 month ago (4 children) mfs will do literally anything besides use GIMP permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 child) Look GIMP is great as an alternative. Happy it exists. It is cumbersome and difficult, it has a steep learning curve and I just gave up and pirated PS permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago I want to like gimp, but it really borders on unusable unless you really commit to it. For filthy casual users like me, there is little value in persisting with it. Either use something simple for quick edits, or give to an llm for more complex tasks. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Sina@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month ago Gimp is useful software for certain cases, but it's not really a Photoshop competitor or alternative. Maybe it could be if someone added the missing features, but I don't see that happen anytime soon. permalink fedilink source parent [–] pwnicholson@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago Gimp can't attach the new stuff Photoshop AI-powered stuff can. It's a difficult to use clone of Photoshop as it was about 8 years ago. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 child) Look GIMP is great as an alternative. Happy it exists. It is cumbersome and difficult, it has a steep learning curve and I just gave up and pirated PS permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago I want to like gimp, but it really borders on unusable unless you really commit to it. For filthy casual users like me, there is little value in persisting with it. Either use something simple for quick edits, or give to an llm for more complex tasks. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago I want to like gimp, but it really borders on unusable unless you really commit to it. For filthy casual users like me, there is little value in persisting with it. Either use something simple for quick edits, or give to an llm for more complex tasks. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Sina@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month ago Gimp is useful software for certain cases, but it's not really a Photoshop competitor or alternative. Maybe it could be if someone added the missing features, but I don't see that happen anytime soon. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pwnicholson@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago Gimp can't attach the new stuff Photoshop AI-powered stuff can. It's a difficult to use clone of Photoshop as it was about 8 years ago. permalink fedilink source parent