Born too early to explore the stars; born too late to buy a house

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Born too early to explore the stars; born too late to buy a house - Lemmy.zip

…with pirated photoshop, because you can’t afford it
GIMP
Draw a square in √99/π easy steps.
The real challenge is drawing a circle!
Gimp is so good. I don’t even know how to use photoshop anymore.
It’s like learning ancient Greek so you forget how to speak English now.
I like GIMP’s open source approach to graphic design and photo editing, but it’s super unintuitive if you’re coming from 20 years of PS, and with fewer features.
I just used the editing tools on my phone, installing Adobe software, ever cracked, is more effort than I’m willing to put into my memes.
photopea is a free browser version of photoshop

You don't pay for Photoshop because you can't afford it

I don't pay for Photoshop because fuck Adobe

We are not the same

Met a guy that uses Arch Linux and was like “yooo fellow brother”. Saw him open up google and google drive and thought to myself “nvm, we’re not the same”

Because he has a job where they use those things? And you have no job?

Maybe he was using the unlimited google drive that was available for like 10 bucks a month, I had 48 TB of pirated movies and shows on there

I had 48 TB of pirated movies and shows on there

That’s one way to stick it to the man! Hell, two The Mans at the same time.

Krita is my go to free open graphic program. Even donated to them.
Kidpix was a certified banger too
With GIMP or Krita because I refuse to perpetuate the “industry standard” excuse.
Pinta is good too
Pinta: Painting Made Simple

Pinta is a free, open-source program for drawing and image editing. It combines powerful features with an easy-to-use interface, making creativity seamless. Available for Linux, Mac, Windows, and *BSD.

Pinta
based and fosspilled

Gosh GIMP can really be obtuse and awkward at points, especially in past versions, but GIMP is like an old childhood blanket for me at this point. GIMP has always been there, a handful of keystrokes and click away. Over the years growing up I would use it off and on, and now I just have this weird relationship that can’t be summed up easily with it, like the irrationally sentimental feelings one might have for a bit of tattered cloth.

Everybody tech savvy I know would always just steal photoshop but for me, idk, the fact that GIMP is just freely given out to the world magically transmutes its jank into a beauty that I cannot help but love. It just feels right to make a shitty meme in GIMP.

Also fuck Adobe and subscription models, I don’t even want to steal their shit because it still contributes to the idea that their raster image editing software is the only professional shit in town and everything else is a joke.

Why the fuck would you buy photoshop even if you could afford it? Just use GIMP