I think it would be great to have access to as many tools as possible. There’s also software like Sketch that has a specific function for prototyping web designs. What reading the book made me realize was that you need to embrace each piece of software as a unique experience in order to unlock its power. In my head of course I wanted to compare Designer at all times to Adobe Illustrator. Recently I wrote a blog post about reading Affinity Designer’s new manual. I’m just saying that there are different tools available that allow for different outcomes. In no way am I knocking open source software that’s currently available. I use Gimp and Krita regularly, but having access to new software like Photo and Designer would really be impressive. I was just wondering if people would be open to also purchase image editing software. There’s 3D software that’s paid license models that run on Linux. I think there would be more people interested in trying Linux as a stand alone operating system if there were more choices for them. I think there are a lot of artists who either are stuck using Windows or Mac because they are looking for tools that are OS agnostic. What made me curious to ask the question was because so many FOSS photography software tools are available on multiple operating systems.

If you’re someone who is just genuinely curious, sorry if I was harsh if you’re a troll …serves your right But it’s to be expected when you post in a FOSS forum promoting commercial software that is aimed to immitate another commercial software, hinting that what we already have here and are proud of is somehow not good enough. Open source projects such as Blender already surpass commercial software in many ways, and complaining that the interface is slightly different from other softwares is a silly excuse …learn to use it, nobody is born knowing an interface, all software have a learning curve.Īnyway rant over.

Point is that an awesome innititative such as GIMP should be encouraged as much as possible, especially when such improvements as we have laid out now are on the horizon. There are still people out there for whom only things they pay money for are worth the effort …but then again there’s plenty kids out there eating boogers too.

The days when smarty pants persons who only wanna use “industry standard” software would tease the FOSS community are gone.

Affinity photo on linux