I wish blender would work on making a serious competitor to the adobe suite. Seriously, the Blender suite would be a perfect name for it and they have the infrastructure to actually fund a serious effort in this regard.

gimp needs to copy blender and how they do their development and community management. blender is the prime example of how to make an open source software mega successful. gimp needs to listen to the community and not argue and pretend that they know better and users are not always wrong and update their website and focus on interacting with the community. photoshop is more popular than max and maya combined yet no one uses gimp because unless you philosophically wanna stick to FOSS, it's just a bad software on many levels. LIKE SERIOUSLY, TRY EVEN DONATING TO GIMP AND THEY CAN'T EVEN MAKE THAT PROCESS SIMPLE.

@@MrGamelover23 they don't need to, they should keep the focus on their main 3d software and not get distracted by more apps. they tried that and half-assed everything and then later they had to remove their game engine and now they are doing the same with their video editor as well. instead of blender, gimp devs need to copy and follow what blender is doing if wanna see the success blender has seen.

@@rano12321 Wait, they're getting rid of the video editor? Shame, but then again, who actually used it?

A tangential but critical issue is how apps are spotlighted. Every so often I'll hear of forks of GIMP or other smaller projects. Now, I don't know if these projects are actually any better than GIMP, but I know that as someone with little need for an image editing software I know of GIMP (& Blender, LibreOffice, etc.) because it's of the "standard" apps that distros pre-install or recommend, and it's the main one people talk about (whether in disdain or defense). Through various happenstance, certain apps become ubiquitous and there doesn't seem to be a good way to find and evaluate alternatives collectively. It's an ironic instance of how the decentralized nature of FOSS can allow for some kinds of centralization.

I have to give it a shot!

Thank you for your support!

didn't know he's german lol

Thanks! I use Arch btw (tm) and nope, I don't post on Fediverse yet.

Krita is usable as well

Darktable. It's way better than LR. it has a learning curve, sure, but there are several good in-depth channels on YT and also a prettu good documentation page.

if you have problems with darktable,you should try Ansel,a fork of darktable,made by A.P .

photopea is great!

True, but I hate that it's a web application. Just annoying to use on a constant basis

@@PremierPrep there is a flatpack version

Photopea is great as a web app but we need something like this to be an app for Linux

@@emdotrod There is a Flatpak available on Flathub. But I've never tried it and being a web app, I have no idea if it would work offiline.

It's pretty good. ElementalWarrior's wine fork was built to run affinity products and theres plenty of guides out there to run them. My only real issue with running it on Linux atm is it takes a couple tries to fully boot up (usually crashing at loading fonts.)

are you mental?