I’m… very frustrated with GIMP and its development team. I really badly need a good raster editor and GIMP is just not that editor. The GIMP team tends to discourage suggestions and volunteer work that does not originate from within their group, so I don’t have a lot of hope of that changing.
Photoshop on WINE can be made to work, but it’s a terribly bad solution for many reasons.
I certainly don’t want to recommend either of them the way I do other applications and OSes in my list. Even the ones I mention that have frustrations are things I’m still willing to use (and enjoy) on a daily basis.
LEX writes in another reply:
Dump Gimp. Krita is the way.
Krita is great. It’s not perfect, and doesn’t provide some functionality I personally need. However, the Krita team really does seem intent on improving it and making it a better application, and that shows in its development and featureset. In time, I hope to completely replace anything I have to go back to GIMP or PS for.
Inkscape simply eliminated any dependence I had on other vector editors like Visio or Illustrator. It’s amazingly good. I’m hoping that Krita gets to that same place in the future.
I’m… very frustrated with GIMP and its development team. I really badly need a good raster editor and GIMP is just not that editor. The GIMP team tends to discourage suggestions and volunteer work that does not originate from within their group, so I don’t have a lot of hope of that changing.
Photoshop on WINE can be made to work, but it’s a terribly bad solution for many reasons.
I certainly don’t want to recommend either of them the way I do other applications and OSes in my list. Even the ones I mention that have frustrations are things I’m still willing to use (and enjoy) on a daily basis.
LEX writes in another reply:
Krita is great. It’s not perfect, and doesn’t provide some functionality I personally need. However, the Krita team really does seem intent on improving it and making it a better application, and that shows in its development and featureset. In time, I hope to completely replace anything I have to go back to GIMP or PS for.
Inkscape simply eliminated any dependence I had on other vector editors like Visio or Illustrator. It’s amazingly good. I’m hoping that Krita gets to that same place in the future.