Rivals such as Pixelmator Pro and Affinity Photo can provide impressive editing tools for less than £50, and while they may not match the sheer scope of Photoshop they will be more than adequate for many professional users and more serious amateur photographers. However, Adobe’s decision to move its professional software products to a subscription payment system a few years ago antagonized many users, and opened the door to rival photo-editors that still just require a simple one-off payment, without committing you to a long-term The sheer depth and range of Photoshop’s editing tools is still unrivalled, with the latest version boasting a new artificial intelligence features that can actually change the expression on a person’s face, or even make them look older (and balder). Photoshop has always been the king of the photo-editing market – a position reinforced once more by Adobe’s release of a native version of Photoshop designed for the new generation of Macs with Apple’s own processor in March 2021 (see MXLinux xfxe has the KDE lib’s available in the Rep’s but I think its time for me to move to a KDE based distro.That’s not to say we won’t be considering some excellent alternatives to Photoshop here. – A few new things to learn but the curve is not steep.Īfter testing out many linux apps for various purposes, Im slowly coming to a general conclusion that the more professional apps are often designed to run on KDE. Its like the authors have made an effort to not re-invent the wheel. – Many of the menus/toolbars are similar to Corel Paintshop Pro. – One of the few KDE based apps that seems to work without issue on my xfce distro. – v1.6 was good to get the simple stuff done quickly. – Missing some of the functionality, but all the menu/toobars are an easy crossover from PSP.

V1.7 Crashes, and the flatpack version wont follow symlinks in the File-chooser window. – Actually can’t get v1.7 to work properly on MXL19.2 xfce but V1.6 on 18.3 worked fine. After trying out many Linux Image editors, some of which have serious bugs and some dont even launch, I found : Unfortunately its not available for any Linux distro and wont run on wine. In W7 I was using what I considered to be the best compromise between user-friendliness and reasonably powerful capabilities. Foe me, transitioning from W7 to MX linux.

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