InDesign had those text boxes that you could link to the next text box with the little red plus, and the words would flow back and forth. It's the only thing in all of the Adobe Creative Suite that I miss! FUCK ADOBE, GIMP FOR LIFE!
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Even if you don't care about open source everyone should support competition. Discord and YouTube can continue to get greedy and stop improving their products because they don't have any real competition.
I got a 3d printer (bambu p1s per someone's recommendation here) but the bambu software allows very little in the realm of adjusting a print (size for example is mostly what I can do).
I've been heavily overwhelmed looking into a 3d software editing platform to adjust prints. I don't have the capacity to learn multiple softwares, but I heard blender does pretty poorly in creating prints with hard dimensions.
While I do like to explore the realm of figurines and characters to print, I tend to use my printer for more engineered prints, things I measure and need a replacement for, or to fill in the need of something I'm I'm constructing.
This is where Adobe got most of the positive reviews for a 3d software that's best of both worlds. Creative and engineered. While blender is heavily leaning towards creative.
only half of these are free software. the rest is freeware.
It's always the same. Many people tell you how a software is not a replacement for other software. Of course it isn't, because otherwise it would be exactly the same piece of software.
Tell me a replacement for LaTeX, Postfix, zsh, vim or OpenSSH. There isn't, because these are the best from my point of view.
Instead of recommending one alternative, you sometimes need to combine them. The most powerful tools are btw combinable in a tool chain and the best are controllable from common scripting or programming languages.
Gimp should be released with photopeas
Or just pirate everything lol
Figma and blender are good the rest you're better off with the paid
How about the iinux version of AutoCAD?
Freecad is getting more and more attention. When version 1.0 releases (soon), it will be something worth checking out, but there is still work to do.
As a mechanical engineer - there is no serviceable free CAD. The only thing you can hope for is Linux compatibility - and you have 100% of that with Onshape only (cloud based).
Every comment in this thread from beehaw is extremely negative.
Yeah they are, wtf is happening over there?
From what I see there are literally just two people from beehaw here.
But the guy that says Gimp sucks is right, I tried it and it feels so awful and awkward to use. I commend the attempt, but I am not going to use it. And wouldn't expect s high retention rate for any artists referred to it. Maybe it's okay for pixel artists. Idk.
Krita is better for me, but still not good.
My pirated copy of Photoshop was lost after I forgot to back it up before I formatted my PC, went without it for a while because I couldn't find another one. Ended up trying Gimp and Krita and an older version of Photoshop, used the old Photoshop occasionally but lost that one as well when my hard drive failed. Now I have Krita installed, but in general I just basically stopped drawing. It's not fucking fun and it just feels so wrong. I've been trying to find decent brushes that work with my Intuous pressure thing but idk, none of it is good. I think there was one "ink" brush that sort of worked.
For Krita I cant even figure out how to move around the canvas without reaching for the mouse. I used to hold a pen button and drag around. Hold Z and the same pen button to zoom in and out. Idk how to do it anymore so every single change in zoom or location feels awkward.
"These programs suck because I'm used to different programs."
They suck.
No, these programs suck because they have bad UI. Gimp’s “editable number in front of a slider that behaves differently based on where you touch it first” is the single worst control I’ve encountered in years.
Gimp is good. I don't know what gimp haters are always so mad about. The buttons are in different places than in photoshop, big whoop. I have been able to do everything I've ever attempted in gimp and I do modding and game development. I just don't get it.
what the gimp haters are always so mad about
You have to use a plugin to even draw a circle properly.
You can't make non-destructive changes to things like filtered elements e.g. make blurred/outlined/etc. text and then change the text.
Content-aware functions
big whoop
Just how different it is from Photoshop is literally the biggest complaint people have. And that it's just unintuitive to many even if you never used photoshop. For gimp to propel in popularity I think it has to become more familiar to what professionals are used to.
I hate both Gimp and Krita, but I prefer Krita.
Ultimately, drawing freeware just feels bad to use.
You have to use a plugin to even draw a circle properly.
How so? I've used GIMP to draw plenty of circles without any plugins.
If I can't do it in emacs, I do it in Blender.
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