Thread 107111086

What's the best application for image and photo editing that isn’t from Adobe? Pixelmator Pro looks pretty neat, but Affinity 3 is now free and feels a bit too heavy for simple editing, resizing, etc.

>>107111086 (OP)
The GIMP is the best!!!
https://www.gimp.org/

>>107111113
This.
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>>107111086 (OP)
Acorn by Flying Meat
t. Mac user

>>107111141
Acorn is better than Pixelmator Pro?

>>107111319
No

>>107111086 (OP)
idk if it's me being used to photoshop but affinity was one of the most counter intuitive pieces of software I have ever used. it's like everything has to be done differently than photoshop just for the sake of being different

>>107111086 (OP)
i only do a bit of photo editing but krita does the job well. no idea if it holds up if you need more from it

>>107111086 (OP)
>What's the best application for image and photo editing that isn’t from Adobe?
While I'm unaware if it's the best, it seems decent. If you're on a legacy system (ex: non-AVX CPU), you may wanna consider an older version for better performance. I use 4.3.11 because it's the first one with a complete dark theme. If you don't require dark title and menu bars, you might be able to use an earlier one. If I recall right, every release I scanned on VirusTotal came up clean (0; green).
>Official
https://getpaint.net/download.html#download
>Older versions
https://paintnet.en.uptodown.com/windows/versions

>>107111086 (OP)
Apple now has enough applications to sell a CreativeCloud-like subscription.

Think they'll go that way?

You can use Affinity V3 without an account, use that