What replaces Photoshop?

grat · Sep 23, 2021

Kino said:
Try looking at Open Source Image Editing software like Darktable or GIMP. Either one should be plenty powerful enough for what you need to do and they are free.

Darktable is a good app-- I use it for photo management, inversion, and light editing. The interface is a bit quirky, but relatively consistent. The retouch module shows some flashes of genius, but is excessively complex to use in practice.

GIMP is a good tool when you have nothing else. If you're familiar with Photoshop, or even Affinity, the GIMP interface will have you yelling incoherently at your monitor. I'd rather use Krita, in spite of it's memory issues. GIMP is very powerful-- but not easy to use for complex editing.

wiltw · Sep 23, 2021

wiltw said:
which part of Photoshop? Photoshop does all of these things, and other programs may do some but no others.

Pixel level JPG/TIFF photo editor

Pixel level graphic arts editor

Sophsticated RAW conversion (via Adobe Camera RAW or ACR)

Digital Asset Management (photo database, via Adobe Bridge) ...note: Lightroom is slightly more complex than Bridge. ... Unlike Bridge, Lightroom has internal editing software. You can select images and make global edits on one image as well as batch editing. You can also create catalogues within Lightroom with images and files of your choice with different tags, keywords, and ratings.M

OP never came back to answer the questions, "WHAT do you need the software to DO, of the above list?!", both 5 days after OP and again SIX MONTHS later. Troll warning.

warden · Sep 23, 2021

wiltw said:
OP never came back to answer the questions, "WHAT do you need the software to DO, of the above list?!", both 5 days after OP and again SIX MONTHS later. Troll warning.

He hasn't posted on Photrio at all in six months. He only has 27 posts, all seem friendly. I don't think he's a troll.

Kino · Sep 23, 2021

warden said:
He hasn't posted on Photrio at all in six months. He only has 27 posts, all seem friendly. I don't think he's a troll.

My response was to posting #75

wiltw · Sep 23, 2021

warden said:
He hasn't posted on Photrio at all in six months. He only has 27 posts, all seem friendly. I don't think he's a troll.

Maybe not a troll, but apparently has insufficient interest in interacting with any of those who responded to the initial question.

Duceman · Sep 24, 2021

Kino said:
My response was to posting #75

I posted #75. What's wrong with it? Some secret rules here I'm not aware of?

Kino · Sep 24, 2021

Duceman said:
I posted #75. What's wrong with it? Some secret rules here I'm not aware of?

No, not at all.

Warden commented that the Original Poster (OP) has not been on Photrio in six months and I said my response was to YOU, not the OP.

This is why you should start a NEW thread when you ask a question. It avoids confusion because people start mixing up who is responding to whom...

Duceman · Sep 24, 2021

Kino said:
No, not at all.

Warden commented that the Original Poster (OP) has not been on Photrio in six months and I said my response was to YOU, not the OP.

This is why you should start a NEW thread when you ask a question. It avoids confusion because people start mixing up who is responding to whom...

My apologies.

However, starting a new thread to extract three pages of essentially the same responses didn't seem practical in this case.

Kino · Sep 24, 2021

Yeah, I have to stop trying to help people who seemingly ask for help; it simply isn't worth the effort.

MurrayMinchin · Sep 24, 2021

Kino said:
Yeah, I have to stop trying to help people who seemingly ask for help; it simply isn't worth the effort.

It's never wasted effort...lots of us are quietly grazing and sponging viewpoints and/or information.

warden · Sep 24, 2021

Kino said:
Warden commented that the Original Poster (OP) has not been on Photrio in six months and I said my response was to YOU, not the OP.
.

My post was responding to wiltw, which I copied in my post. Now I'm confused too. ;-)

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Duceman · Sep 24, 2021

^-- This. #MeToo

Deleted member 88956 · Nov 9, 2021

Kino said:
Try looking at Open Source Image Editing software like Darktable or GIMP. Either one should be plenty powerful enough for what you need to do and they are free.

Is Darktable ok for iOS though? Im new to Mac but thought iOS and macOS are not mutually compatible, at least not by default.

sionnac · Nov 12, 2021

Am going to start looking for something else. There was an issue with latest update 23 where I couldn't open TIF files any more. They are still working on a fix but for my files (which were made by a vendor for work) with Capture One 9 Mac, none could be opened because they were "not the right type of document." Had to go back to v. 22.5.1 to open the files. There is a workaround for 23 but IDK if they've fixed it, just went back to 22.5.1.

RalphLambrecht · Nov 17, 2021

sionnac said:
Am going to start looking for something else. There was an issue with latest update 23 where I couldn't open TIF files any more. They are still working on a fix but for my files (which were made by a vendor for work) with Capture One 9 Mac, none could be opened because they were "not the right type of document." Had to go back to v. 22.5.1 to open the files. There is a workaround for 23 but IDK if they've fixed it, just went back to 22.5.1.

a work-around could be to open the files in Preview and output from there as tiff or jpg, which can be opened with PS.

RalphLambrecht · Nov 17, 2021

Auer said:
I've been with Photoshop since the 90's and have never found anything that can match it.
Lightroom is much easier to replace, but since you can have both and Adobe RAW for $10 a month I see little point in doing anything else.

Photoshop has no real competitor IMO.

Edit: For strict photo editing maybe Exposure 6 could be of interest.
I tried it and found nothing really wrong with it but just too used to Adobe's solutions at this stage to seriously switch.

https://exposure.software/blog/2014/whats-new-in-exposure-6/

Exactly!

DonW · Nov 17, 2021

What replaces PS? Skilled darkroom work

Auer · Nov 17, 2021

DonW said:
What replaces PS? Skilled darkroom work

Nah, skilled photoshop work has by and large replaced darkrooms

16:9 · Nov 20, 2021

+1 for Affinity. Also Gimp. When Adobe when subs only they lost a lot of Photoshop users, but gained a lot more revenue from those that remained loyal.

Duceman · Nov 20, 2021

I eventually went with Affinity Photo. Still in the initial stages trying to learn it. I found a kid on YouTube who has done several tutorials on how to use it, so that might be helpful.

grat · Nov 21, 2021

Robin Whalley in the UK has some nice videos as well on youtube. He's got a playlist with a bunch of tutorials for Affinity (and other products).

Sirius Glass · Nov 21, 2021

GIMP is free and works on PCs, Macs and Linux.

grat · Nov 21, 2021

... but it really is an irritating interface. I've used some horrible UI's over the years... Blender, I'm actually somewhat competent with.

But GIMP makes my teeth itch.

Sirius Glass · Nov 21, 2021

grat said:
... but it really is an irritating interface. I've used some horrible UI's over the years... Blender, I'm actually somewhat competent with.

But GIMP makes my teeth itch.

Use emory paper.

grat · Nov 21, 2021

Sirius Glass said:
Use emory paper.

Kind of rough on the monitor.

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