Mehhhhhhhhhhh photoshop has recently gotten a lot better in wine recently.
I am not sure how production ready it is because I have only been able to test basic functionality.
If you have some free time, I suggest you try it out.
I am a hobby programmer and cs student. I’ve been using Linux exclusively for about 3 years now. I don’t game a lot anymore so I’m happy with the games available for Linux and waiting for ports. On my main computer, a laptop, I’m mostly programming. I’ve set up a nice environment where I feel like my OS is as good as any IDE, using vim/neovim+plugins, terminals, web browsers, and Herbstluftwm, a tiling wm. Windows feels very clunky in comparison.
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Ironically I tried really hard to use Darktable with Photoshop in Wine. I also tried with Gimp. It’s not a case of it not working at all, it’s just time. I used Darktable before I used Lightroom and was very impressed with it and if I had to pay extra for Lightroom it may well be a consideration. A great deal of my editing is about cleaning up skin tones, fixing lighting issues, removing blemishes and although I try to avoid this one as much as possible, a little bit of “shape correction”. I have macros that apply a certain group of masks which I then paint on. The nature of Glamour photography means there’s a lot of skin on show. Add to that the fact that when you want to do something a little different all the tutorials speak “photoshop”. If I had time, bearing in mind Photography is currently a secondary career, perhaps there are things I could adapt but like most photographers, I begrudge every minute spent editing as I’d rather spend that time in the studio. If I was making more money from it I’d just pay someone else to edit!!
Photoshop in…
No no no just get inkscape and just go and be.
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Lol
Really depends on your application. If you’re in photography, PS is totally reasonable. for painting though, Krita (a free program) is arguably the best application on the market.
Switched to Linux about 2+ years ago. Still boot into win7 once a week for the occasional game. Found Clementine is an adaqute replacement for winamp but still need to experiment with transferring music to my USB drive. I use GIMP at work, to those that say it’s an acceptable PS alternative, no. GIMP sucks. It’s half baked and missing crucial ingredients. Python scripts only take the edge off.
Anyway, moved two young nephews to Ubuntu gnome. The eldest now realizes how garbage windows is. I’m hoping they expose more kids to Linux. Much like they do with disease and sickness. Little bastards…
Plan to move my mom onto it as soon as she gets a new PC.
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- Look Up Gmic
- If you’re doing raster illustration look up Krita
Guys all these recommendations are all well and good but if you have a workflow that works, you’re talking about fixing something that isn’t broken.
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Not what the thread is about re-read the titlecard.
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Yeah, I’ve got nothing against people that use Adobe CC, it’s perfectly adequate software, and I agree that GIMP is a bit of a joke. I was pointing out that GIMP is not, and really should not be represented as the gold standard in OSS visual art/image editing software. It gives other, perfectly valid free tools a bad rap.
Not what it’s about but where it’s going. Sorry if it seemed abrupt but I’m very conscious of the fact that I’m starting to hijack the thread and thought it was a quick way to step out and let it get back on track
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I don’t see any problem, it fits the subject matter perfectly, it’s all sharing from a specific practical angle about how linux works on a day to day basis, I think it’s actually better to have practical specific use case scenarios like that than a general pure theoretical discussion, because generality is not a thing that finds any application in open source, because of the abundance of choice and freedom, therefore it shouldn’t be approached like software consoles without proper choice. Also, more specific and practical sharing leads to a greater volume in actual solutions on the forum.
More and more I’m using Linux. Work requires that I use windows because it’s an all windows environment (with a few linux server exceptions).
Plus, I grew up with Windows and hadn’t heard of Linux until a few years ago. (I didn’t have much exposure to computers because we were poor).
At the moment, I’m running Ubuntu in a vm and using it for development. It’s nice, and I’m getting more comfortable in the command line.
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Don’t worry I just have to be more responsible.
Could say I use nothing but linux, my comps consist of 2 raspberry pi 3’s one with retropie/kodi hooked up to my tv and the other for general comp stuff running latest version of raspbian
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That sounds depressing to me lol
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It does what I need it to and it’s cheap, plus fixing all the quirks in raspbian was interesting in itself, all the gaming I do nowadays are just retro systems since I enjoy them more than newer ones lol
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Hmmm, I guess from my perspective it would be too restrictive. Cool!
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Actually I do have one question. Wjat do you do if you need a bigger beefier proc? Just not bother?