> Gimp and Inkscape are both extremely sub-par apps. I think Darktable does non-desctructive editing but I haven't used it myself. a good raster photo editor with non-destructive editing capabilities I've also had issues with the cage transform in Gimp, but it's fixed now, so if you're on Ubuntu, just add a PPA with the latest version of Gimp. Scribus uses less resources and supports multipage documents. I'd describe it as more of a serious publishing app, where Inkscape may be more for artists. few people are willing to hack on an open source project for the 'fun' of improving their C/C++ skills nowadays.Ĭheck out Scribus. And using a 'hipster' new language like Rust would also help the project's popularity with new developers. Lots of people will throw money at anyone who can produce something intuitive and stable! Not need for tons of features, just make it fast and stable, and someone will add on. If anyone can do these things well, I'd suggest a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter or something. a good vector graphics app - Inkscape could be it, but it would need heavy work on stabilizing it, and UI improvements around anything involving mask (though to honest the bar is low here, Illustrator has horrible UI around masking to) a good raster photo editor with non-destructive editing capabilitiesĢ. Its popular though since Cored Draw is no longer a thing, and Adobe Illustrator has horrible UX for anyone not using it full-time/professionally.ġ. Inkscape is horribly unstable once you try to draw anything slightly complex that involves heavy usage of masks and your number of paths/shapes get close/over 100. Last time I tried to use Gimp for anything mildly complex (heavy usage of cage distort on a high res pic with quite a few layers) it crashed every 10min (though I was told it was the fault of the Ubuntu packaged, it's not acceptable to make a clusterfuck of the versions targetting the most widely used Linux distro!).

Paint.NET beats Gimp in usability, Photoshop in both features and stability.

Gimp and Inkscape are both extremely sub-par apps.

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