Yeah, the only software that can stand toe to toe with Adobe is Affinity, and theyāre winning at the no subscription pricing. Other than that Adobe is really no equal when it comes to FOSS, a lot of those alternative is just us tolerating the flaw. Used to do stuff with photoshop, illustrator, flash, and after effect, switching to foss isā¦rough. Like you said, Gimp is barely usable, inkscape is good but far behind illustrator, and i donāt think flash and after effect have any foss alternative when i looking for it. The only free alternative to after effect that is good is davinci resolve, but thatās still proprietary.
I hope all of these anti-GIMP folks have looked into the 3.0-RC* releasesā¦
Iām already way passed my time of using image editing software, but iāve also heard people say the same for 2.0, but in my experience i still have to tolerate a lot of UX shit. And crash. But cool nonetheless, iāll check it out. Professional still should just get Affinity rather than struggle with a release candidate.
2.0 was released 20 years ago in 2004ā¦ a lot of things, including software, can change in 20 years. 3.0 finally has adjustment layers, et al. that they have been working on since I first started following in 2008 but had blockers on GEGL & all sorts of massive refactorsā¦ which are now finally coming. If there was a time to try to get a new opinion on GIMP, it will be now (or very soon when 3.0 is finally officially released).
