Inkscape is fantastic. It’s easier to learn than Ai and you don’t have to pay for it.
CMYK on the horizon too
What do you mean ?
Martin Owens is working on a new PDF exporter that will allow you to use an ICC colour profile to have correct CMYK colours for printing, basically essential for professional printing.
That’s awesome! is there an estimated ship date ?
I think he said tentatively by the end of the year, so most likely early next year some time
I wish the Inkscape team would make a raster option. GIMP is just lagging, and we need a solid pixel pusher.
Krita is good for illustrating and painting
Yeah that looked good. I just need a photoshop replacement with a modern UI
The thing is Photoshop does a lot of different stuff, like photo manipulation, painting, and pixel art. But it’s not really the best at anything besides photo manipulation probably. So it depends on what you want to do with it.
I need to be able to edit photos, raw files, lossless options, with layers, and a wide selection of touch up tools that can be content aware.
Photoshop is perfect, but I’m not paying for a subscription to a product that I realistically don’t need updates for.
I’d be totally fine using my old copy of photoshop CS if it would run anymore.
Gimp just had a lot of odd UI choices.
Darktable
Rawtherapee?
I’d also have a look at Darktable.
unlike its gimp brother