Figma is NOT free software. It is proprietary, and hosted.
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Resolve is also proprietary.
It said free. Not open source
Difference beeing, you can download resolve onto your pc and use it forever without updating, even if they decide to cancel the free version or get bankrupt. Figma runs entirely web based and if Adobe buys it it can be killed off at any point.
People who promote gimp likely never actually tried to use that piece of shit. Try Krita instead, holy fuck is it so much better as a useable piece of art software.
I learned Photoshop in high school, then tried to use Gimp in college. What a fucking disaster of a program.
Krita is not a replacement for Photoshop though. There is a difference between a software to draw and a software for image manipulation.
by the same logic, neither is gimp.
Affinity Studio should be added, not FOSS but free. I t has a polished UI
I don’t speak polish though
Anyone have the one where it's all vim lol?
More people know Premier, but Natron is designed as a clone to the foundry's Nuke.
A better photoshop alternative is photopea. Gimp is it's own mess.
It's been a while since I paid attention to it, but last I heard Natron wasn't maintained anymore since it was having trouble getting developers.
Can you download and install Photopea or does it still require a Web browser and an online connection to run?
No official version that ive seen, but it seems some people have made offline versions.
Here's a flatpak: https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.github.vikdevelop.photopea_app
Uses an electron wrapper according to the page. I have not used this personally so can't say if it works well or not.
Any one else looked into Graphite? I first found it as a vector editor, but it seems to have widened its scope a fair bit
Please... Let Gimp die already.. Krita is actually made by humans for humans
Gimp 3 is actually a massive improvement and they are releasing updated on a routine basis now. Try Photogimp if you like a more standard interface and layout
I saw it. It was... Ok
Well..... For quick text insertion, meme creation, or some very basic photo editing I still boot up Gimp.
But yeah... The newest version of Gimp feels like they updated from a very out dated version to a mostly out dated version.
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Blender is an alternative to 3DS Max in the same way an actual car is an alternative to flintstoning a burnt out wreck. Even in college a lot of our very basic rendering exercises with Max got the whole grade just on demonstrating correct setup because the software is so prone to crashing or taking 20h to do what most alternatives (paid or free) can do in 20 minutes.
You're saying Blender is better? I've only used Blender, but I would believe it. It's like opposite of how I feel about GIMP.
Yeh, admittedly I have a lot more experience with blender than 3DS Max, but from performance differences alone I'm pretty sure if Max released today without its massive pre-existing industry adoption it would be laughed out of the room.
How good is DaVinci Resolve on Linux? I have been wanting to switch for a long time now, but I read online that DaVinci doesn’t work that well on Linux, so has it gotten better?
It works best with NVIDIA drivers and with the least workarounds in RHEL type distros (officially it supports Rocky Linux).
Decoding and encoding is really limited, especially in the free version. There's details about codec support in their website.
If you pay for it, and you're already used to distros like Fedora, Rocky, RHEL it pretty much works out of the box. Only Fedora requites some tinkering. There's also tools and workarounds for distros like Arch AFAIK.
On the paid version there should be no problem with codec.
Yes, but there are limitations depending on hardware. Intel and AND don't get the best encoding and decoding performance.
You couldn't pay me to use Gimp. The interface offends me.
You can theme it to change icons and sizes and such, which helps a little. But I agree, the interface is a nightmare. Ever since v3 came out, my layers window has disappeared and I can't find it. That's a kind of important panel to hide away :(
Try either crtl +L or from the top menu Windows > dockable dialogs > Layers
You couldn't pay me to use Adobe. The predatory pricing, required internet, Linux incompatability, file scanning, Adobe Bridge, bad privacy policy, bloated install, useless launcher, DRM, and use of AI offends me.
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Pretty sure neither Figma or Resolve are free software.
Kdenlive is quite good and foss
A better, free-er alternative to figma would be something like Penpot which works pretty well and is easy to self-host.
Davinci Resolve has a free version that is missing some features. They are important features, mind. But it definitely allows you to edit videos and get a good feel for the software to see if you want to purchase it or you can just keep using the free version even.
So it's free*.
And the paid version is buy once and get a perpetual license. Very non-scummy for a full professional video editing tool.
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