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Only open and free software can defeat the likes of Adobe.

Can't wait for the dominance of Photoshop to be ended by gimp and ffmpeg, I've found that they work fairly well for whatever editing I need. Maybe open source variety of Figma also exist?

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> Can't wait for the dominance of Photoshop to be ended by gimp

Hah, good joke, I've been hearing it for years now.

But you're not laughing at ffmpeg.

Progress comes in bits and pieces, maybe gimp isn't it, just like GNU Hurd continues to suck, but something will be there eventually.

How is ffmpeg a photoshop alternative?

ffmpeg could be the underlying package for that alternative.

and tbf I'm finding ffmpeg very efficient for the kind of editing that I do, and I barely scrape the surface.

I’ve been using gimp since 0.48 when I had to compile for SGI Irix to run on our O2 workstation. I’m pretty sure gimp is not going to be the one.

Decades.

The one thing I know about is Penpot see https://penpot.app/ which is by the team that designed Taiga.io - It's fully open-source and I think tries to solve some of the same problems but it's still in beta. I'm not much of a designer but yesterday started to teach myself Figma only to find this acquisition happening. I've resisted installing creative cloud for years and hearing various people's experiences with Adobe makes me feel like this was a wise decision.

Photopea has been pretty good at replacing Photoshop for my needs (non-designer).

Me too. As a web guy I've been given many .psd files. Photopea has met my needs in terms of telling me the colors, fonts, and spacing.

This, this, this. I don't use PS anymore, Photopea does everything better without the needs to dabble in Adobe's shit.

Gimp’s UI is really awful. ffmpeg’s UI is also bad, but at least it’s a CLI, so it’s easy to search for.

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