I'm laughing way too hard at this.
Honestly this is the best answer.
Like, use the tools that work for your use case?
I fucking hate macs but man using a video editor on windows was a pain back in the day. Where I would rather set up a server on Linux, than use whatever the hell windows servers operate.
"It is always ethical to pirate adobe"
It's far more ethical to make the company lose money
Minimum amount for photoshop is 22$/month
Pirate photoshop
Delete it
Pirate again
Repeat 30 times
Adobe looses 660$
If everyone does this adobe will loose so much
They don't care as they have a massive profit margin. What matters more is the market share. You got to break the standard way of thinking industry wide.
That's not at all how piracy works. They don't lose any money by me not buying their product, the money was never theirs to lose. They can earn money if I buy it, but if I don't, then nothing changed. It's not like every company is entitled to my money.
Pirating or using Gimp or Krita instead, has the exact same effect on them, ie me not buying their product.
Lol I've been using cs5 until yesterday. V24 now
Voice of reason
I never understood that argument. Do or do not.
Goto www.PhotoPea.com instead. :)
It depends on what you do
True but I think most people don't use every feature
If you want to edit photos then Affinity is passable, and GIMP is a joke.
If all you want to do is draw, then Krita is a very capable alternative to Photoshop, but being good at only a specific subset of Photoshop capabilites doesn't turn it into a replacement for it
I make my memes in gimp and it works for me.
Depends what you want to do to photos. It just adjustments without trickery, darktable is fantastic.
Gimp has been just fine.
Yeah, it’s kind of true. I’ve tried a bunch of Lightroom and Photoshop alternatives. Pixelmator and Photomator for iOS and macOS are my absolute favorites. I wish I could get around Affinity software better, but I can do 95% of what I need in Pixelmator. And I love some of the select tools. Bonus: Davinci Resolve is a big switch for Premiere users— but worth it, and even CapCut’s free features can help with the basics.
Fuck I'd love an actual equivalent alternative on Windows too. GIMP, while great in the past, is nowhere near modern Photoshop, it's closer to modern Paint, which is just sad.
There's a ton of people and businesses that hate Adobe, the lack of real alternatives is fascinating.
Krita, rawtherapee, dark table, digikam, affinity. Just depends what you are trying to do. If you're used to photoshop there's nothing exactly the same and it will take effort to move but I think it's worth it, I'm still on the journey of learning as a hobbyist and have mostly been using dark table for photo editing
Darktable is fine as a hobbyist, but it doesn’t fully replace Lightroom when you get into semi-professional and professional workloads.
I need to give it another try, but my 12TB raw file library is so unwieldy to manage that I haven’t tried importing it all there. Plus the AI generative removal and Denoising is pretty important to a lot of my workflows.
What? This is a normal headphone dongle for macs.
Good faith response here so pardon me if it's a swoosh moment. One of my devices is a fairly recent Mac. And it has a headphone jack. Which I appreciate greatly.
But is it SCSI or 1/4" TRS?
Connected through every single coax connector made by man.
I was taking to my sister, who is an artist, about setting up Linux and warned them about poor Adobe support. Their response was "⭐ 𝒻𝓊𝒸𝓀 𝒶𝒹𝑜𝒷𝑒 ⭐" due to their AI shenanigans and high costs.
So thanks modern Adobe for making it easier for people to switch to Linux.
Are you trying to use a guitar as an input device for PhotoShop?
Reverse polarity positron emitter.
That's the fun part. The emitter is the detector. It will invert the beam of it detects anything.
You get the most accurate memes if you use the large hadron collider as your input device. Though be careful, sometimes you can get a bit of antimatter on them, so don't touch or lick the meme.
Everybody knows d minor is the saddest of all keys.
*Audiophile screeching in the distance as you enjoy perfectly fine 48k through this bad boy
I was hoping I could plug it into my guitar & watch the sounds on an old computer monitor…
Do you think it would work?
All we need to do is build a similar setup and then find a guitar and a CRT and see what happens
Edit: actually, I've got a guitar and a CRT and maybe half of the pieces there. The big thing I'm concerned about is destroying the CRT. I have no idea how sensitive CRTs are or how much power is coming from a guitar.
I have no idea if it would work, but I do have a spare CRT monitor if you blow yours up.
Maybe look into a direct box? I had to use one when recording to change the ohms between the instrument & the usb interface in the tower.
Just dropping this here https://forum.mattkc.com/viewtopic.php?t=336
he uses KDE too
I love Matt's videos.
He had a video describing how he completely switched to Linux and he showcased Photoshop in the video. It was immensely satisfying for me.
of course he uses arch
true
He uses custom build Nobara
I just went through this last night....VMware workstation +windows 10 + passthrough.
Photoshop cs2 is free to download and probably works well on wine as its old as hell.
Edit: Correction. You used to o be able to download cs2 from adobe website. This is no longer the case.
GIMP has always been able to do what I needed more or less. Its got a learning curve and sometimes I still dont 100% how something works but for basic photo editing, meme making, and converting photos to different file types (why is .webp not universally supported yet?) Its pretty good.
When theres a problem doing something in GIMP it always felt like the issue was my own understanding of the toolset conbined with not-great documentation being given. I never felt like I encountered the limits of the program itself.
I'm sure if you are a professional graphics person who needs advanced tools theres things only PS can provide and its user interface is probably more friendly. But for me, the average joe schmo, GIMP gets the job done 95% of the time with little to no headache.
Some people do overestimate how much of the software they’re actually using, and how far back some features go. I learned the little PS I know using a 7.0 license my father bought, I used it for years doing 2D graphics and web “design”, and still basically still have the same workflow with minor differences to avoid destructive changes.
You can skip 3 of these adapters if you upgrade to the latest libraries, downgrade your microcode, turn off WiFi, and bench press a goat. It turns out it was the goat involved I'm the process, rather than the sacrifice, that made that stuff work.
What's so funny? This is how we played multiplayer Doom in 94.
Use Krita instead
Krita is a different kind of tool used for drawing, but still really good. I don't even know the adobe way to do this lol.
Gimp would be image post processing software like photoshop is. Also Inkscape is a vector graphics software like adobe illustrator.
Oh you wanna do a pdf? Use Libreoffice and export as pdf. Krita is a open source alternative to photoshop as is gimp. Gimp has came a long way and is a functional replacement for photoshop these days without all the ugly AI stuff.
I think I read that but I've never tried. I mostly use gimp for image format conversion. My daughter on the other hand can make both Krita and Gimp do all kinds of tricks.
Nah, I prefer my parallel port
You mean that Centronics SCSI terminator?
try gimp first and if you spend 15 minutes raging, use photopea.
I have the opposite problem
I learned GIMP first
When I try to use Photoshop/Photopea/whatever I'm useless at it because the keymaps are all different.
i don't graphic design or edit images really and photopea is barable if i want to do more than add text.
"This is what me and the boys biologically did you your mom last night"
One thrusts every second, the next one every two, then four, ...
Yes.
Jesus Christ man
Did firewire really flop? Lots of devices from the early 2000s have it and it works really well. Everyone used it to get video from cameras and using it for target disk mode on macs is amazing
My point was, it flopped as a standard. It's not that it's good or bad, it's just not used any more, there are no new devices with FireWire. USB killed it essentially. The same will happen with Thunderbolt, USB 3.x will kill it.
I seriously doubt there will be something that will replace USB. It's backwards compatible to oblivion and just supports newer and newer things. It's very hard to beat that.
hardware dongles were the worst. god forbid you wanted to run 3ds and lightwave on the same box, sentinel didn't like other dongles goddamnit
Imagine your livelihood depending on adobe, how do you take yourself seriously?
I mean you're not a 'pro retoucher' if you require adobe to do your job, you're simply an adobe user.
Granted i havent tried gimp 3. Ill have to give it a try. But im so fast with ps. And i hate how each program needs to have their own control schemes to differentiate.
I just dont get why people hate photoshop to the point of being unhelpful when people ask how to get it working. Especially when many people are pirating it anyways.
It takes a while getting used to anything. Gimp does have a Photoshop keyboard shortcut preset, to ease you into it.
And gimp does have some parts that are better. For example importing a bunch of images and lining them up on a spritesheet is both faster and easier on Gimp. And both Photoshop and gimp have scripts to do this, but I was never able to get the Photoshop script to work.
you shouldn't waste any time or energy on an adobe product. and if you think that advice is unhelpful then you literally can't be helped.
Gimp 3 is amazing.
Found the time traveler!
(The stable version of Gimp is 2.10.38, and even the latest dev snapshot -- which is what I assume he means by "Gimp 3" -- is technically "only" 2.99.18.)
The problem that arises is that you have to remember three different UIs and run them all simultaneously which I've measured use up more RAM, which sometimes reduces my efficency and increases my system resources more, instead of using the shit UI of Photoshop that the whole world decided to accept as the defacto standard to duplicate
It is all keyboard shortcuts, though, and you can configure them to all use the same ones. I believe they have a "Photoshop-like" preset you can select too.
About the RAM, I'm not sure what can be done. I guess it is a tradeoff. I'd probably go with more RAM consumption over Photoshop because I have a lot of RAM, but not everyone do. Considering the price of Photoshop if you didn't pirate it, it would be cheaper to buy and install more RAM, though.
It makes memes
When I first used the Adobe suite it was on a Mac, I assumed it ran best on non-Windows machines. This was in 2005... Why would they have to make it so hard to use on Linux?
Better than waiting for GIMP to load fonts, I'd wager.
When I load it, I get the message, "Looking for data files" and below that "Fonts (this might take a while)". And it does take a while.
Weird, when I start gimp it just speeds through a floating window with different inititialization steps that are all about the same duration (<2s for the whole thing to start though).
I'm just about to windows myself back again but use Chris Titus mini windows version
Edit: I will really miss KDE though... Edit2: so far the Chris Titus mini windows is quite good for a windows. No junk except for the junking install. Edit3: someone needs to make KDE for windows. I don't know or care how but I need it.
Is windows 11 ltsc a thing yet?
Or just run it in a Windows VM and save yourself a ton of grief? Win10 LTSC works just fine.
Well ain’t that just a string of memories.
Me running from DP to HDMI to DP DVI on a family members computer because I had those cables/adapter.
How do I run Paint Shop Pro 9 on Linux?
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=2505
Yeah... I wouldn't use any web based tools if I was working on my own art, or anything commissioned for a customer, or anything copyrighted.
Of course, I wouldn't use Adobe either after the whole AI thing.
Reminds me of a setup I had for local serial multiplayer on my Atari ST. I had cable going from the ST's 25 pin serial port to a 9-pin connector, a gender changer, a null modem module, then 9-pin back to 25-pin. But hey, it worked.
I want context
Dongle...
Big dongle energy.
I love this, buy fuck off with that anti-Linux content on Lemmy.
We only have few places. :)
Edit: unless we're talking about servers and phones, in which case we have most of them
It's already lost. Lemmy is mainly now just users that hate reddit (the company itself). It doesn't have the same far-left/progressive and tech loving atmosphere it did only a few months ago.
edit: And yes, I do understand most of the population is moderate/centrist and not fans of free and open source software.
Yeah, I've noticed that change as well. It was fun while it lasted.
There just isn't enough content. Yes, some interesting info and shared links, but I like my social media mixed up, as in, some serious thread, then a few jokes/shitposts, then some more serious threads. There isn't enough of that any more.
And the rules in most funny/shitpost comms are kinda strict when it comes to comedy. So I just stopped posting stuff all together on most comms, except a few.
@lemmy.world
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I've never had any trouble running adobe software on Linux.
I've also never tried, but still the statement is technically correct.
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