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gimp.org/GIMP
Photoshop through WINE?
gimp, or photoshop w/ wine, or photoshop w/ virtualbox
GIMP | No other similar alternative known...
Thanks a lot for everyone
Gimp is a piss poor replacement for photoshop. Tell your friend to stick to windows.
@Abdussamad is spot on (been using photoshop for 16 years and I've tried everything else).
I think Krita might still be active https://krita.org/
Depends on what he needs to do with it. Photo/image editing, graphic design/templating, illustration/painting ... ? Check the alternativeto list. Gimpshop and Cinepaint for overall features. Darktable for managing photos. Gimp Paint Studio and Krita for painting.
Gimp is fairly good for all of the above, but if he needs some Photoshop-specific features (or some plugin that for some reason only works properly in Photoshop), then Wine as the backup plan.
It is. I have just backed them up on kickstarter
+1, I also searched for PS the time I moved from W7 to Linux Mint & couldn't find anything so using PS under virtualbox.
Windows is a piss poor replacement for Linux.
@souen All he need is photo editing
Nothing so big
Seems like it's one area why people have 'kept using Windows', the kind of program that hasn't a suitable replacement on Linux for the 'power user'.
In my experience, Windows just looks, feels and behaves nicer than any Linux distros do. Of course it's an entirely different ball game when it comes to a server OS
@Rami Ah, okay, maybe start with Gimp in that case. There are tutorials out there to show him how to make the best of the app for photo editing. Darktable or similar are more for RAW manipulation.
Straying from "Photoshop alternative", for quick adjustments without firing up a big app, I like gThumb or Nomacs.
I'd rather use pixlr.com than GIMP
sadly gimp doesn't cut it for heavy graphic designers. as mentioned above, he can try Kirita but I strongly recommend he stay on windows.. (or get a mac)
GIMP.
Photoshop without Windows = Mac. I've been using Photoshop on a Mac for over 20 years, seems to work ok ;-)
Some other suggestions for graphics software on Linux, besides GIMP and Krita:
Pixeluvo is a beautifully designed image and photo editor for PC and Linux.
Do you have a PC or Linux?
Damn, hadn't even noticed that. That has got to be the first time I see developers behind a non-Mac piece of software word it that way...
This, I've tried a few different Linux distros and for desktop use I kept going back to windows or OSX,
It would probably help a lot of the hardware vendors would get their heads out their own backsides and actually provide decent drivers for their kit under different OS's or at least provide the proper specs and documentation needed to allow others to write a driver for their hardware.
The other problem with Linux is it's often not exactly user friendly it's gotten a LOT better in recent years but there are still a fair number of things that probably only make sense to the person who wrote it.
Then again Microsoft have a team of people who are paid to supposedly make things user friendly and to provide a consistent user experience and some of their recent efforts do leave you wondering what the hell are they smoking. The wireless network management in Windows 8 and newer seems to be a massive step backwards from the way it was done in 7.