The announcement serves as the final nail in the coffin for one of the iPad’s oldest and most popular sculpting apps, which hasn’t received any major updates since 2023.

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[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 65 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Any Software that I previously used that switched to a subscription model has been replaced by FOSS on my end, even if it’s not fully up to par yet I am usually much happier with the alternatives.

Plex > Jellyfin

Office > Libreoffice / Collabra

Photoshop > Gimp

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[–] minibyte@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Shout out to the FOSS community here on Lemmy, who are extremely helpful in providing FOSS alternative references.

[–] Coelacanthus@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 1 day ago

Only GIMP can't cover all usages of Photoshop well. For image editing, GIMP is a good replacement; for painting, Krita is better.

[–] crankyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Gimp and inkscape for vector work, both nice. There is also PhotoGimp, kind of an overlay that changes the interface of Gimp to resemble Photoshop, nice for those transitioning. There is also Krita which has been getting a lot of development, cross between Photoshop and Illustrator, reminds me of the old Adobe Fireworks program. Who remembers that old line of software?

[–] Redkey@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

It's weird to me how GIMP and Krita clearly share a large amount of code under the hood, and even some UI design, but at the same time it feels so much less painful to draw illustrations in Krita than in GIMP. I'm glad I gave it a try.

[–] CybranM@feddit.nu 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I can't get into gimp, it's just too unintuitive and clunky imho. I've switched from PS to Affinity which is a one time purchase, got it 50% off when they had the "fuck Adobe" sale last year

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago

Check out PhotoGimp

[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I love affinity, wish they'd support Linux and android though. They have an iPad app but no android tablet app.

[–] CybranM@feddit.nu 1 points 2 days ago

Yep, Linux support will become more of a problem for me when Win10 reaches end-of-life. No way I switch to 11