I have no idea. I barely use it, and I don't tinker with it.
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I have no idea. I barely use it, and I don't tinker with it.
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if i used an iPhone, i could literally open and edit and export HEIC files just fine in krita and gnu imp if i wanted to
and i use lingux btw
Photo files are jpegs on all the usual applications I use except for google drives for whatever reason.
people love to hate on webps but at least basically every website nowadays supports uploading them
AVIFs are the real fuckin worst thing.
AVIFs are the real fuckin worst thing.
FOR HUG'S SAKE!
A few years back some folks created a fork called "Glimpse" to fix the naming problem, but sadly it only lasted a couple of years.
can they also fix the usability and UI problems
Read Avengers vs Alien. This jive expects me to believe that a world with superscience, magic, small-a aliens, gods, mutants and superhumans on every corner would be overtaken by vanilla Aliens. At least Superman vs Alien had to work to make that matchup interesting and viable. Actually now that I think about it, Superman vs Alien was a damn fine comic.
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God himself could not fix that jive.
I have said it before and I will say it again: anyone who recommends GIMP as a Photoshop alternative to someone is either playing a cruel prank, has never used any other image editing software, or is one of those 'it's open source so it's automatically better and anyone who complains is wrong' types.
It's somehow still at the top of the list of Photoshop alternatives lists in big collection graphics that go around every time some corpo shits on their customer base, even though we live in an age where Photopea, an almost 1:1 clone that runs in a BROWSER exists.
I only use it for gif editing. There are surprisingly few gif editors anymore, and I am not going to use some stupid web app.
The fact that you said 'some corpo shits on their customer base' is exactly the reason why people still (unfortunately) recommend GIMP as an alternative.
They recommend stuff like GIMP because there is no corporation involved, you can't be jive on by them introducing nonsense features or trying to push subscriptions because it's FOSS.
Like I don't know about Photopea, but I do know that lots of browser-based Photoshop alternatives have just gone to jive because the people behind them decide to introduce subscriptions, so they make it so that if you don't pay, you can either only access the most basic features (which is less annoying I guess because a lot of people only need the basic features) or you can access everything but when you export the image, you're either going to have a watermark or you can't export images larger than a certain size.
They recommend stuff like GIMP because there is no corporation involved, you can't be jive on by them introducing nonsense features or trying to push subscriptions because it's FOSS.
Like I don't know about Photopea, but I do know that lots of browser-based Photoshop alternatives have just gone to jive because the people behind them decide to introduce subscriptions, so they make it so that if you don't pay, you can either only access the most basic features (which is less annoying I guess because a lot of people only need the basic features) or you can access everything but when you export the image, you're either going to have a watermark or you can't export images larger than a certain size.
It's because zoomers think gifs are cringe.
Far as I know, Photopea's still got all its functionality, just has (or had, it's been a bit since it nagged me about adblock) some ads to keep the lights on.
We just gotta get to a point where the folks doing the FOSS stuff have someone involved that knows how an average user thinks and can actually leverage some clout to make the product actually usable. Or reasonably obtainable, in the case of the github nerds...
We just gotta get to a point where the folks doing the FOSS stuff have someone involved that knows how an average user thinks and can actually leverage some clout to make the product actually usable. Or reasonably obtainable, in the case of the github nerds...
I have Clip Studio (formerly Manga Studio) for more serious pics/comics. Bought it ages ago and the major updates maybe twice? They have subscriptions now, too, but F that. At least they still offer the one time payment.
On my cell I have IbisPaintX, just did a one time payment to disable ads and enable more tools. Handy for quicker pics/on the go.
On my cell I have IbisPaintX, just did a one time payment to disable ads and enable more tools. Handy for quicker pics/on the go.
Why do that when they can take one of the parts that already works and rebuild it from scratch, and demand that everything else must now be rebuilt from scratch to support it because progress?
i don't get what's hard about getting stuff off github
like even if there isn't just a simple 'yeah just download the latest release from the releases and install it/extract it', they'll have instructions otherwise
people are already too computer illiterate as it is
like even if there isn't just a simple 'yeah just download the latest release from the releases and install it/extract it', they'll have instructions otherwise
people are already too computer illiterate as it is
Under construction.
And when they're not, the steps are often uselessly vague and involve tools most people don't already have. For someone who already routinely builds software for fun and has all the necessary tools to do it, cool. But every project is going to be somebody's first, and when the instructions say jive like "Now configure the file with your own settings", nobody who's doing it for the first time is even going to know what settings they need let alone how to do it.
