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Adobe already killed almost all competition in the creative space and I hate that. I'm thankful for software like Davinci Resolve and the Affinity apps.
Recently learned about Krita too, which is more for art but it's nice
There's a plugin for AI generation now
I didn't know they had AI generation now, I need to use it again. I haven't had a project that needed it for a bit.
I wish we can get a Krita, Inkscape, GIMP ecosystem that rivals their offerings. I recommend these tools to most of my students (gamedev) because they're already great, but if they wanna work in this area in industry they're also forced to learn Adobe..
There is actually a wip project that aims to do just that, unite all these FOSS apps in one, interconnected ecosystem.
I don't remember what it was called, I'll get back to you once I find it again.
It's OpenCreativity
Really cool idea, I hope this gains traction!
Updated my comment: OpenCreativity
There's also GIMP as a Photoshop alternative
And Dark Table as a Lightroom alternative
Both are pretty great IMO
GIMP was painful to use. Has it gotten any better yet?
Unfortunately, nope.
I'm not sure what you mean, I've found it quite easy to use though it does have a learning curve like most things
When was the last time you tried it?
Used it a few years ago after Blender got the 2.9 treatment. The interface felt very clunky and unintuitive for basic operations compared to anything else. I remember looking at a tutorial and thinking what?
No, use Krita instead. I gave up on Gimp ever getting better about 15 years ago
Capture One is not foss but fucking great
Krita is a lot better than Gimp if you need a PS alternative
Oh, I used to like Krita. That's disappointing that they're yet another on the AI train
Why though?
The image generation algorithm is open source and it runs locally. Artists can use it instead of giving up their art to some company to abuse. We've had tools like this for years, this is just better and easier to use
Artists are a bit tetchy about their stuff being used for the training data.