To the people still complaining about the lack of Adobe products on Linux: Your use case is a niche, and after 20 years of listening to your drivel I'm tired of pretending it's not.Very few people are professionally involved in media creation to a degree where they absolutely *must* use these programs. Everyone else can get by with simpler alternatives, on the off chance they end up having to do so at all.
>>109100716GIMP 3's nondestructive editing has ruined me for photoshop honestly, that was what finally pushed me over the edge and let me abandon dual booting. All GIMP's weird bullshit and missing features are outweighed by the unbelievable utility of adjusting a layer's curve, then changing my mind after five hours of editing and going back to the same curve and tweaking it.
>>109100716you are living in the stone age to such an absurd degree you tricked yourself into thinking you live in the future
>>109100716So, are you telling me there are no pirated photoshop over vine on loonix?
not op but>>109101010while i have never personally pirated photoshop on linux, from what i understand reading from experienced users and personal real life friends who have tried this, it is so janky it's not worth it. even if you get it working, the program is operating with less than 100% functionality, and i have even heard gpu accelleration is missing on some functions of the program, which i would assume for most photoshop users is crucial. many crashes, they say. this is also said by my friend whos entire job is graphic design, and has been using linux for nearly 20 years, who still carries around a 100% offline macbook JUST for photoshop.the affinity suite is apparently doing much better through wine, with some rough edges (although i am led to beleive affinity themselves have considered creating a native linux version, so perhaps using it on linux shows them they have significant cause to?)>>109100943i think a lot of people have noticed that the adobe suite is kind of arbitrarily chosen by most people, perhaps because so many universities and schools use it, due to corporate adoption.for myself, as someone who makes posters for local events, memes, wallpapers, and edits photos for my family, i would consider gimp to be a very nice program, with enough features to satisfy myself personally. obviously it is lacking a lot of features (for example, i could not click one button to remove a background, i would have to manually use the laso tool to deal with it) but i do think it is usable for school projects, or local events, stuff like that.inkscape/krita is also overlooked, i think photoshop became a catch-all program that consumed most use cases, when in reality a lot of art could be made through krita or inkscape just fine.of course, most schooling, online tutorials, and plugins are all made for the adobe suite, so using something like gimp/krita/inkscape would obviously be a setback if you planned on utilizing all of that.
>>109101123>for example, i could not click one button to remove a background, i would have to manually use the laso tool to deal with itare you aware that its 2026 and using a lasso like that is literally insane
didnt some guy fix photoshop on wine a few months ago? if that's not good enough surely they can just run it in a virtual machine
>>109101133>are you aware that its 2026 and using a lasso like that is literally insanei suppose? i dont really consider this insane, although i'm not really that deep into photo editing? again, i am not editing hundreds of images every day, i do not live in the program. i am not a professional, so i do not look to constantly optimize my workflow. for me, the program is "good enough"? this might be very hard to understand, i have had similar comments from my friends.even without the magic "ai cut out background" button, i still have made posters that have brought people to local events, gotten people to scan qr codes, etc. so i do not even think it is really required?in any case, there is some gimp plugin to do this, but it would apparently take up a gig of ram and storage, as well as require a decent gpu, which is a bit much to save myself 30 seconds to 1 minute of time.>>109101178what happened a few months ago is that they fixed the installer for the program. the program itself has always RAN, but they needed to implement some internet explorer functions into wine to get the creative cloud installer working. before the installer would crash, so what had to happen before:- installs photoshop on windows (vm/other pc)- copies files over to linux- installs custom version of wine- runs photoshopwhat happens now:- installs a custom version of wine- installs photoshop- runs photoshopmuch simpler.
>>109100716>Opens GIMP>Okay, class! Now, draw a circle!
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>>109101274voila! it is as simple as that.
>>109101123>perhaps because so many universities and schools use it, due to corporate adoption.Unless they're specifically an art school, they typically don't have the money for this.
>>109100716The average person is a literal moron who's been brainwashed into being consooming brand loyalists who fall for marketing memes.
>>109100716>Your use case is a nicheSprite fights are pretty popular.>Very few people are professionally involved in media creation to a degree where they absolutely *must* use these programs. Agree but in my case the alternative is using Animate but i want nothing to do with adobe's cloud shit.>Everyone else can get by with simpler alternativesThere are none.
guarantee someone can vibe ai code a way to make it work, I found a random guy who did that for a popular gaming vpn app recently and it works flawlessly.
ok seriously though is there no plugin or tool or something for gimp that just gives you basic shape tools like in ms painti love gimp but holy shit you have to go through insane hoops just to do one little thing sometimes
People get their info from "content creators" who are the ones to most commonly complain if their media creation tools don't work which heavily amplifies the complaints of one specific set of people. Regular people get all kinds of weird misconceptions about Linux and computers in general because they don't even know when they're in a niche based on what they're viewing online. That's why you have to regularly remind noobs that the vast majority of people on Linux are using unriced KDE or GNOME and Ubuntu is more popular than their meme distro. If someone sees their favorite youtuber say they tried Linux and they hated it they probably aren't going to square that away with the fact that their favorite youtuber has extremely specific requirements that the viewer probably doesn't have. The viewer falls into a niche and echoes opinions that aren't really relevant to them, making the whole situation even worse.
its the same shit with hdr, vrr, etc. just absolute garbage no one uses except to try and make a point against linux. adobe shit actually sucks nowadays compared to free alternatives
>>109100716Imagine her doing that to your ballsack
>>109101214>to implement some internet explorer functions into wine to get the creative cloud installer workingHow about using pre cloud version? What is wrong with that?
true and realthe last time I used photoshop was to make cool signatures in the age of forumsI don't know anyone irl who has ever opened an adobe programtotal youtubenigger death
>>109100716your mother's cunt is a niche, one I had sexual relations with nonetheless
use case for photoshop newer then CS2?(nowadays you may as well use krita)
>>109102322>Sprite fights are pretty popularSo popular google turns up nothing relevant.
>>109102352Idk I just use the circle select and either fill with ctrl+, or ctrl+. , or I use the stroke paint.In all seriousness though I rarely ever actually need that. When I would, I'm better served by inkscape so I can combine, cut out, or etc the shapes.
>>109102513Very well put, and true.Still, the adobe thing has been a constant complaint since before "content creator" was coined as a term. I'll concede that the context has changed over the years but the hyperfocus on specifically Adobe and Microsoft products has always felt bizarre.I get the microsoft office thing even though libreoffice has been viable in terms of compatibility since at least 2013 (and this was around the time google docs started taking off, too, with really good docx compat), because docx is unfortunately used as an interchange format and people frequently collaborate on documents and presentations in just about any white collar discipline.But Adobe? Really? Unless you work in graphic design or animation you're not going to be expected to open files for these programs.
>>109101274It's a damn shame the scripting capabilities don't support interactive use. You can't get coordinates from the mouse, or bind to trigger off clicks, to use them like normal brushes/tools.
>>109100716I have been using Adobe Photoshop CS6 on Debian for ages. Just werks. Cracked version and all. You don't need anything more than what is offered in CS6.
>>109106567Any guide on this stuff? Last time I checked (years ago) there was no easy modo for this.
>>109106336but what if you only want the outline of a circle? i've had many situations where i needed that
My company won't even let people use Linux. They say it's a cybersecurity risk.
>>109106312Dogshit search engine. not surprised.
I have been using Photopea for five years and it's good but when I am creating a poster with multiple high res photos with blending effects it gets really slow.Is the new affinity any good (on Linux)? I am not using GIMP, it is way too unintuitive.Also fuck adobe.t: graphic designer
>>109100716I just pirated cs6 and ran it on linux using wine, nothing is worth using today. all the software is subscription based.
