It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you'd love alternatives for?

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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 43 points 1 year ago (34 children)

Photoshop.

And yeah, no, please, don't come over and mention Gimp and Kryta and all the others. I get it, they're cool for the stuff they do. They just aren't the all in one package that Photoshop is or have as powerful tools specifically for photo editing. Photoshop would require a Blender-style major effort to replicate and Gimp just isn't up to it. I wish it were. Photoshop is at the perfect intersection of being uniquely capable and walled off behind the single crappiest ecosystem in software.

Nobody likes Adobe, nobody wants to work with Adobe. Nobody can avoid Photoshop. That's just the world we live in and I don't like it.

[–] anon5621@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also would be nice to have open source ecosystem with blender ,then open source pro level video editing like da vinci and open source photoshop.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I'm happy to give Black Magic Design my money.

I literally wouldn't piss on Adobe if it was on fire.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't gone back to Blender's built in editor and postprocessing suite. I hear they did some stuff to it in 4.0.

Still, yeah, I end up going to DaVinci because Blender editing is more like Gimp Photoshopping than it is like Blender 3D modelling and rendering.

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