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PixiEditor 2.0 - a FOSS Universal 2D Graphics Editor is here (pixieditor.net)

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[-] hayk@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 hours ago

God almighty, how come I'm hearing about this for the first time??? this thing basically does everything GIMP does but better. I mean, node-based editor... are you kidding me, it's incredible!

after a couple of hours of playing, their node editor is still a bit raw (not blender level), but the foundation is very solid. i'm willing to back this project financially (after I use it for a week or so), and I strongly suggest you do too (if you find it similarly useful). we really need more projects like this so that (a) people stop using adobe, and (b) GIMP devs finally realise that to maintain the audience they actually have to do something.

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 3 points 14 hours ago

The reason you haven't heard of it is it used to be a unknown pixel editor and then then dev went on crack and decided to turn it into a "universal 2d graphics editor"

And well ... It worked so I'm not criticizing.

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 14 hours ago

Supporting apps out of sheer spite for gimp is certainly one business model

[-] hayk@lemmy.ml 1 points 14 hours ago

I call it motivation ( : I mean no offense to GIMP, they're definitely the ones who broke the monopoly originally. but since the time I started using it like 10 years ago to now with the release of GIMP 3 barely anything has changed, yet there already are quite a few open source alternatives that shine brighter at very specific niches.

[-] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago

Sounds good. Too bad there's no rpm.

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 27 points 5 days ago

https://graphite.rs/ is the one I'm really waiting for, but this looks nice, especially for game developers.

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

Graphite is also super interesting, but every time I've used the raster (brush) tool, it's been unusably laggy. Idk if that's the web stack or something else, but if they can improve it, I'd def want to try again

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

That is way too much scope but looks awesome

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

Yes, it does seem overambitious, but I'd be happy if I can just replace Illustrator finally.

[-] public_image_ltd@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

I have been using inkscape for vector graphics since more than ten years. It is FOSS and does everything I expect.

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

That's great, I'm glad you've found something that fits your requirements! Some of us need features it doesn't have, like the ability to adjust spacing between paragraphs (or rather, to have paragraphs at all rather than just add line breaks)

[-] public_image_ltd@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

You are right, I don’t use it for text. Is that something illustrator does? Coming from inkscape I missed a lot of features in illustrator (university pays for the license). And as I stopped using After Effects the only reason to use it was gone.

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Yes, Illustrator is much better at managing text (less that InDesign of course, but still good for simpler designs). In Inkscape's defense, many of the limitations are imposed by the SVG standard. I think paragraphs are one of them.

[-] dbkblk@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Wonderful project!

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 days ago

Interesting. I've gotten OK working in Krtia, but I feel like I'm working around its UI since I'm not using it as the drawing tool it's meant to be.

[-] TruePe4rl@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

I do almost all raster work in Krita. Aside for drawing, I find it more than usable for photo editing. You just have to play around long enough to get the muscle memory and learn a few tricks.

I guess it depends on everyone's preferences.