A patch for optimizing GIMP 3.0+ for Adobe Photoshop users, including features like:
- Tool organization to mimic the position of Adobe Photoshop;
- New Splash Screen;
- New default settings to maximize space on the canvas;
- Shortcuts similar to the ones in Photoshop for Windows, following Adobe’s Documentation;
- New icon and Name from custom .desktop file.
https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP/blob/master/screenshots/photogimp_3_-_diolinux.png
Flatpak (Linux)
In order to install the newest version of PhotoGIMP on your Linux operating system using Flatpak, just follow this simple steps:
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Make sure you already have GIMP installed from Flathub; (for Ubuntu/Mint user just select Flatpak below the install button in the manager)
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Start and quit GIMP after you installed before you continue!
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Download the files from this repository or just click here - > https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP/releases/download/3.0/PhotoGIMP-linux.zip
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Extract the content of the zip file on your home folder (.config and .local - they are the important ones) and overwrite the files if needed; (if you can’t see the file click Ctrl+H to see hidden files)
-You’re done, enjoy it! 😄
krita is another foss editor
Editor? It’s a drawing software.
Of the 2, I’ve come to prefer Krita. Acly replaces most of Photoshop’s generative tools cleanly and improves upon them with features like pose vectors and live mode.
Krita is missing one feature that I rely on often - setting the white point in the levels tool.
Krita should letcha set the white point in the levels tool. But it won’t letcha pick white with the eyedropper, which is a notable omission.
Yeah, that’s the problem I have - it’s something I end up doing on an awful lot of photos. I need that tool.
At it’s heart, Krita is a drawing program with a few concessions to photo editing/manipulation. Whereas Gimp is a photo editing software with a few concessions to drawing.
Unless Krita decides to go the full adobe route and try to do both (which I doubt will ever happen), a feature like setting a white point (or any feature that isn’t solely useful for photography but not drawing) will ever be in it.
People making the comparison as though Gimp and Krita are both trying to do the same thing are utterly exhausting.
Krita is an Illustrator replacement not a Photoshop replacement.
If I’m not mistaken, illustrator is vector based, krita is pixel based. So drawing-wise, krita is closer to Photoshop than illustrator.
Krita can do some vector stuff, but you’re right, it’s better suited for raster workflows. Inkscape would be the Illustrator equivalent.
It is my understanding that Kriita is a raster art program, while Illustrator is a vector art program. Inkscape is a vector art program.
While that is an important distinction. It still needs to be said that Krita is a drawing program like Inkscape and Illustrator not a photo editing program like GIMP or Photoshop.
Yeah, that’s kind of a thing; the Adobe suite kind of doesn’t have a raster drawing program, Photoshop gets used for that but Photoshop is meant to be a photo editor.
A “digital artist” or “digital painter” will want to use Krita, a “graphic artist” designing logos or signage is gonna want Inkscape, and people wanting to lie via photograph want GIMP.
Taking digital photos without editing them is like taking analog photos without developing them.
Whether you use those tools to lie, or to get closer to what your eyes saw is your choice.
But if you just use the unedited RAW image from the sensor, it won’t look anywhere close to reality either.
As always every person’s workflow will be their own. I’m honestly not sure what you are arguing.
Well, I’ll put it to you this way: If I hire a graphic artist to design a logo for my company, and they turn in a .png they drew in Photoshop, GIMP or Krita, they’re fired. Because I’m going to have my logo on my website, printed on business cards, on key fobs, on the side of work trucks, and painted on the side of buildings. I need a four color variant, a black and white variant and an outline variant, and they all need to work when printed at any scale. Raster art can’t do that. “Hey, can you plasma cut my company logo out of stainless?” “Send over the file.” “…what the fuck is this?”
Hell just having it in .svg format rather than .ai format is gonna be a problem, because Adobe Illustrator is a proprietary industry standard. But I mean, the rest of society is dying, why shouldn’t graphic arts also have the disease?
Nah, I use krita for everything Ive used photoshop for over the decades. It has a lot of the same exact filters and ui conventions etc of creative suite era photoshop.