• Plopp@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I bought the Affinity Suite which has been great for me. Sadly they don’t have a Linux version, which is what I’m moving to. Krita covers some other of Photoshop’s features as well. And people who say Gimp is a Photoshop alternative are crazy. Gimp uses destructive editing which is clown level in image editing and makes it completely useless imo. But supposedly non-destructive editing is coming.

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      6 months ago

      It is destructive in what sense? I’ve been using gimp to do various edits non professionally for many years and I am feeling comfortable with many advanced things, but now I am curious about maybe trying Krita or something.

      I thought using layers and so on in gimp was also considered non destructive… Maybe I am missing out on something.

      I have also used photoshop in like 20 years ago, can’t remember much.

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        6 months ago

        Destructive in that many edits are lossy. Change the transform of an object, then go do a bunch of other edits, and then go back and edit that same transform again. What you’ll be editing now is the edited image, not the original one (as in Photoshop), so there’s massive data loss and it looks absolute crap. If you want to edit with the original image as origin you have to undo all edits back to before you edited the transform the first time.

        Non-destructive editing should be coming in the future, and they might have implemented some non-destructive things since I last used it.