• JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org
    232·
    2 months ago

    I’ve never had any trouble running adobe software on Linux.

    I’ve also never tried, but still the statement is technically correct.

    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
      15·
      2 months ago

      I’m laughing way too hard at this.

      Honestly this is the best answer.

      Like, use the tools that work for your use case?

      I fucking hate macs but man using a video editor on windows was a pain back in the day. Where I would rather set up a server on Linux, than use whatever the hell windows servers operate.

  • tiramichu@lemm.ee
    153·
    2 months ago

    The answer is very much “Don’t run Photoshop”

    (Fuck Adobe. There, I said it)

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        66·
        2 months ago

        It’s never unethical to pirate Adobe, but it’s always more ethical to use Free Software instead and deny Adobe the mindshare.

        • Remotedeck@discuss.tchncs.de
          46·
          2 months ago

          It’s far more ethical to make the company lose money

          Minimum amount for photoshop is 22$/month

          Pirate photoshop

          Delete it

          Pirate again

          Repeat 30 times

          Adobe looses 660$

          If everyone does this adobe will loose so much

          • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
            11·
            2 months ago

            They don’t care as they have a massive profit margin. What matters more is the market share. You got to break the standard way of thinking industry wide.

          • Rinox@feddit.it
            8·
            2 months ago

            That’s not at all how piracy works. They don’t lose any money by me not buying their product, the money was never theirs to lose. They can earn money if I buy it, but if I don’t, then nothing changed. It’s not like every company is entitled to my money.

            Pirating or using Gimp or Krita instead, has the exact same effect on them, ie me not buying their product.

        • x4740N@lemm.ee
          3·
          2 months ago

          Gimp is behind on features and ui optimisation and krita is art focused

        • 474D@lemmy.world
          13·
          2 months ago

          Well the obvious answer would be all the professional Photoshop capable things man, we can love Linux and still admit there’s areas for growth

        • Anivia@feddit.org
          5·
          2 months ago

          If you want to edit photos then Affinity is passable, and GIMP is a joke.

          If all you want to do is draw, then Krita is a very capable alternative to Photoshop, but being good at only a specific subset of Photoshop capabilites doesn’t turn it into a replacement for it

      • Ketchup@reddthat.com
        1·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, it’s kind of true. I’ve tried a bunch of Lightroom and Photoshop alternatives. Pixelmator and Photomator for iOS and macOS are my absolute favorites. I wish I could get around Affinity software better, but I can do 95% of what I need in Pixelmator. And I love some of the select tools. Bonus: Davinci Resolve is a big switch for Premiere users— but worth it, and even CapCut’s free features can help with the basics.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Fuck I’d love an actual equivalent alternative on Windows too. GIMP, while great in the past, is nowhere near modern Photoshop, it’s closer to modern Paint, which is just sad.

      There’s a ton of people and businesses that hate Adobe, the lack of real alternatives is fascinating.

      • variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
        10·
        2 months ago

        Krita, rawtherapee, dark table, digikam, affinity. Just depends what you are trying to do. If you’re used to photoshop there’s nothing exactly the same and it will take effort to move but I think it’s worth it, I’m still on the journey of learning as a hobbyist and have mostly been using dark table for photo editing

        • BURN@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          Darktable is fine as a hobbyist, but it doesn’t fully replace Lightroom when you get into semi-professional and professional workloads.

          I need to give it another try, but my 12TB raw file library is so unwieldy to manage that I haven’t tried importing it all there. Plus the AI generative removal and Denoising is pretty important to a lot of my workflows.

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
    86·
    2 months ago

    I was taking to my sister, who is an artist, about setting up Linux and warned them about poor Adobe support. Their response was “⭐ 𝒻𝓊𝒸𝓀 𝒶𝒹𝑜𝒷𝑒 ⭐” due to their AI shenanigans and high costs.

    So thanks modern Adobe for making it easier for people to switch to Linux.

        • Mossy Feathers (She/They)@pawb.social
          2·
          2 months ago

          All we need to do is build a similar setup and then find a guitar and a CRT and see what happens

          Edit: actually, I’ve got a guitar and a CRT and maybe half of the pieces there. The big thing I’m concerned about is destroying the CRT. I have no idea how sensitive CRTs are or how much power is coming from a guitar.

          • HonkyTonkWoman@lemm.ee
            3·
            2 months ago

            I have no idea if it would work, but I do have a spare CRT monitor if you blow yours up.

            Maybe look into a direct box? I had to use one when recording to change the ohms between the instrument & the usb interface in the tower.

            • Mossy Feathers (She/They)@pawb.social
              2·
              2 months ago

              I’ll take a look at it. The CRT is a bit sentimental to me (it’s the same model as the one my first PC had, managed to find one on eBay in good condition after like, a year of searching) which is why I’m concerned about blowing it up. However, I might see if any electronics recycling places in my area have a shitty, beat-up CRT TV they’d be willing to part with. That said, I discovered recently that most of the remaining recycling places in my area are run by computer enthusiasts and tend to sell or hold onto anything with any value like CRTs though, so wish me luck.

              Kinda genius really. Into old PCs but don’t wanna pay eBay prices for them? Become an electronics recycler and then people will pay you to take their old SGI workstations and Sony BVMs.

              • MorkofOrk@lemmy.world
                2·
                2 months ago

                The only way you’ll blow your CRT is if you tried to plug that dongle monstrosity into the speaker output of a power amp haha, guitars have a high impedance signal. Direct boxes actually lower the impedance, so that definitely won’t help make your output safer. (Still safe) So I say go for it directly from the guitar, the worst that can happen is nothing, (which is likely) which probably means you actually do need to lower the impedance with a direct box. (Which I still doubt would work but who knows) An amp with a line out or a digital pedal board would be the most likely options for actually getting sound through.

                • Mossy Feathers (She/They)@pawb.social
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  Do you know what the tolerances are on connectors like VGA, coax, and bnc? My monitor has VGA and BNC, so BNC might be easier to use (fewer intermediate steps, more control due to separate sockets for sync, r/g/b, etc). I’m curious if you might know how high the voltage can go before I run the risk of frying something.

                  Also, my guitar is an acoustic-electric with a preamp, which would probably make a difference.

  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
    29·
    2 months ago

    Say what you will, this is an efficient and elegant way to store your adapters. I’m envious.

    • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Until you need one and your OCD having ass can’t break the chain so you buy a new one …

  • prime_number_314159@lemmy.world
    20·
    2 months ago

    You can skip 3 of these adapters if you upgrade to the latest libraries, downgrade your microcode, turn off WiFi, and bench press a goat. It turns out it was the goat involved I’m the process, rather than the sacrifice, that made that stuff work.

  • tee9000@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 months ago

    Gimp sucks.

    And ps works with wine if you have it on windows already and drag over some system32 dlls

    • parpol@programming.dev
      16·
      2 months ago

      Gimp used to suck. Gimp 3 is amazing. Krita is great. Inkscape is OK.

      Having all three requires less space than Photoshop and Illustrator and covers about every feature of both.

      • tee9000@lemmy.world
        7·
        2 months ago

        Granted i havent tried gimp 3. Ill have to give it a try. But im so fast with ps. And i hate how each program needs to have their own control schemes to differentiate.

        I just dont get why people hate photoshop to the point of being unhelpful when people ask how to get it working. Especially when many people are pirating it anyways.

        • metaStatic@kbin.earth
          4·
          2 months ago

          you shouldn’t waste any time or energy on an adobe product. and if you think that advice is unhelpful then you literally can’t be helped.

        • parpol@programming.dev
          4·
          2 months ago

          It takes a while getting used to anything. Gimp does have a Photoshop keyboard shortcut preset, to ease you into it.

          And gimp does have some parts that are better. For example importing a bunch of images and lining them up on a spritesheet is both faster and easier on Gimp. And both Photoshop and gimp have scripts to do this, but I was never able to get the Photoshop script to work.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        Gimp 3 is amazing.

        Found the time traveler!

        (The stable version of Gimp is 2.10.38, and even the latest dev snapshot – which is what I assume he means by “Gimp 3” – is technically “only” 2.99.18.)

        • Ziglin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          I believe it’s a gimp 3 pre release (and the final one too). Works great for me though it still has some occasional crashes on my wayland setup.

      • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
        1·
        2 months ago

        The problem that arises is that you have to remember three different UIs and run them all simultaneously which I’ve measured use up more RAM, which sometimes reduces my efficency and increases my system resources more, instead of using the shit UI of Photoshop that the whole world decided to accept as the defacto standard to duplicate

        • parpol@programming.dev
          3·
          2 months ago

          It is all keyboard shortcuts, though, and you can configure them to all use the same ones. I believe they have a “Photoshop-like” preset you can select too.

          About the RAM, I’m not sure what can be done. I guess it is a tradeoff. I’d probably go with more RAM consumption over Photoshop because I have a lot of RAM, but not everyone do. Considering the price of Photoshop if you didn’t pirate it, it would be cheaper to buy and install more RAM, though.

    • arthurpizza@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      Gimp doesn’t suck as an image editor, it just sucks as a Photoshop clone, which it was never meant to be. It’s an amazing image editor.

    • Rolando@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 months ago

      I’ve been using Gimp for simple things, and it’s been OK once I realized that whatever I want to do, I should look it up first instead of just trying to figure it out through trial and error.