• akakunai@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    I’m sure for anyone who has real work to do, GIMP will hold them back compared to Photoshop.

    But I grew up using GIMP and got some pretty impressive results with it. Now that I have Adobe CC access and have been using Photoshop through that, I am perpetually confused on how to do x, which I know how to do in a couple clicks in GIMP.

    To be fair, I’m sure that’d go doubly so for someone who started with Photoshop since it does have an objectively cleaner UI.

    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      I’ve moved on to many paid, but not subscription apps mostly from independent shops. But I’m a designer using a Mac so your results may differ.

      • Photoshop -> Pixelmator Pro (Affinity Photo is ok too)
      • UX -> Sketch
      • Illustrator -> Affinity Designer / Sketch
      • Indesign -> … I hate when someone sends me a indesign file. I don’t do book, magazine, or catalog layouts anyway. PDFs are better and I can edit them in a bunch of apps.

      I do still use Autodesk Fusion for 3D hobby projects, but I’m planning to switch to Ondsel (FreeBSD) over the winter.