I don’t want to incentivize using tools made through stealing other’s work then claiming it’s for the people
I’m 99.9% sure that Adobe and all other big tech companies are using LLMs to generate code. So it’s slop either way, but one is at least free and open source
Of course the established alternatives like Krita, Gimp, Inkscape and others are even better, no questions there
I can confirm for Microsoft. AI is pushed on us so hard that we must use it everywhere, even for those processes that can be automated with a script (I.e.deterministic).
You realize there are non-ai alternatives?
Yes but the Adobecucks have proven time and again they’d rather take ungreased Adobe pole than learn an alternative.
GIMP is awful though. I havent seen the new ui yet, but the old one was unusably bad
try krita, specially for digital painting with tablet
I’m not trying to make a painting with a drawing tablet, though. I just want to edit the alpha values of an image. From what I can tell, nothing offers that type of basic image editing. Paint.net comes close, but even that can be finicky and relies on community addons that often become unavailable.
In gimp just right click the layer, choose add layer mask, then pick from layer’s alpha channel. You now have a mask layer you can paint on.
Is there a way to do this, working off of the existing values? For example, copy an image’s alpha values onto the mask so you can then adjust brightness/contrast?
Personally I don’t need adobe or slop adobe. After many attempts and some effort I found that the non-AI open source alternatives were good enough, or in some cases even better, once I had a more open mind and stopped expecting them to be 1:1 to adobe.
i love gimp, but the trouble you need to go through to make text with outline is just painful. ive done it that way for years now and i recently learned on photoshop its just a toggle :c
Krita > Gimp
Also Inkscape > Illustrator but no one ever talks about this
For real Inkscape is fkng goated
Inkscape it’s amazing
