Is there a good alternative to Adobe PDF. I mostly use it the view, print and edit PDF's. Plus forms. I've tried a few, but editing so far has sucked.
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Krita for anything graphic design. Krita's UI layout is a lot more similar to Photoshop than GIMP, which makes the switch easier.
Photopea is another good (entirely browser-based) Photoshop alternative.
This is infinitely better than gimp if all you care about is that it's free as in beer.
GIMP sucks and still has a horrid UI experience.
Gimp is an alternative to Photoshop the same way a bicycle is an alternative to a car.
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Unpopular opinion: Darktable sucks compared to Lightroom and I say this as someone who despises Adobe.
Got an example? I like darktable, although figuring out which modules to use is definitely a bit of a learning curve
Something as simple as importing photos on Darktable is just such a pain in the ass compared to Lightroom.
In Lightroom, it automatically prompts you to import photos when a CD camera's card is plugged in. You set the import location and it creates nested yearly, monthly and daily photos. When importing, the option to select only new photos is plainly in view. Once importing is done, LR automatically ejects the card.
Darktable, on the other hand... The whole import and then add to library method is just bizarre. Customization is great but when it just needlessly adds steps to the equation and disrupts what should be a butter smooth workflow, I jump ship. There's so many things on LR I've been able to intuitively figure out while their Darktable equivalent require viewing tutorial after tutorial. It's so annoying.
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My list is a bit different:
Photoshop ➡️ Krita Illustrator ➡️ Krita After Effects ➡️ Blender Premier Pro ➡️ kdenlive Adobe XD and Figma ➡️ Everything about these tools seems wrong to me (see comment below) Cinema 4D and 3DS Max ➡️ I thought everyone ditched those in favor of Blender long ago? LOL
I completely do not understand the appeal of tools like Figma. As a developer who's made lot of single page web applications (though not in a while... Maybe everything is different now? 🤷) tools like Figma seem like they'd create a major headache for developers.
I mean, sure: If a tool gives you a quick, easy, collaborative way to mock up a website and user interactions then by all means! But it looks like people are going far beyond that and using Figma to generate code. In my experience with such tools in the past, that's where everything goes wrong.
If the developers themselves aren't using the tool then the code will drift from the GUI design tool too much over time, becoming a boat anchor that holds development back and slows everything down. But maybe folks are just using it to get things started? I dunno. I just don't get the hype around it.
Then again, I'm a guy who does all his CAD design work in OpenSCAD so I might have something like a superpower in regards to visual reasoning that prevents me from understanding the issues others have with conceptualizing code-as-design 🤷
I’ve seen Figma provide CSS values but I think it’s main purpose is designers can use it to create UX specs that devs can then implement. It’s definitely more convenient to make mocks in than using HTML and CSS directly. It also seems more popular than the Adobe option but it’s also super not free
Photopea would be a better drop in than Gimp. But it's a website and that grinds my gears.
It loads completely in the browser. iirc you could disable your network after loading the "website" and it would continue to work. Simply a web app, if you will
Is there any good alternative to adobe animate?
Blender. Yes! Blender does fucking everything at this point. I wouldn't be surprised if the next release can read emails.
It's fucking good at 2D animation too! There's whole communities that worship the goddamn grease tool for animation. It's bizarre, honestly. But I can't deny their results 🤷
I have been searching for years man... No luck
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Does it work on linux?
I really wish gimp could replace Photoshop but it absolutely cannot
Of course it can, it already does at least 90% of what Photoshop does. People are less likely to want to contribute to its development if others are always shitting on the project though.
It comes down to UX. Blender used to have an awful UX, and it was a distant trailer behind the Autodesk products for usage. After they dramatically improved the interface, it became much more popular. Gimp needs the same treatment.
I remember at the time there being a lot of pushback on blender UX changes, too. I watched a talk on it where a guy really said "I had to Google everything so these guys should, too". I know a lot of FOSS guys abhor the idea of conforming to an industry standard, and I get it, but the truth of the matter is that people would rather pay than have to relearn their entire workflow.
Some goes for Resolve. Absolutely awful UI. Which is why I will continue to pirate Adobe products.
I wonder if it comes down to FOSS projects typically not having any designers, but just developers. Like...if that's the case, the maintainers would have to actively reach out to UX folks to help. But I imagine mkst don't even realize or admit there's a problem because they're already intimately familiar with the entire app.
On the contrary, it will only get better if people understand its faults.
There's a lot it cannot do but more importantly it is quite unintuitive. if they'd work on the UI and shortcut keys, I'd be ecstatic because fuck adobe.
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