[Shopper0552]

Do you have any good alternatives to Photoshop that are open source? And that are not GIMP.

Nothing against GIMP, I just found it too hard to learn coming from photoshop.

I'm looking for a simple editor that can do color adjustments, crop/resize images, and add text.

[_mlbt]

There’s Krita…

https://krita.org/en/

[renegat0x0]

Krita is so good, and so easy to use! I rarely use gimp now

[SoftTalker]

> I'm looking for a simple editor that can do color adjustments, crop/resize images, and add text.

Those are all pretty simple in GIMP though? I'm not doubting that they are different from Photoshop but how long could it take to learn the GIMP way?

[thaumasiotes]

I'd like to know more about color adjustments. I know GIMP can do them in some form, but I have no idea what the options are or what kind of results I should hope to be able to achieve. Documentation doesn't really seem to address these questions, though it is available if your question is "how do I run this menu item I found?" (Answer: open the menu, and click on the menu item.)

Cropping and resizing are trivial. It would take less than one minute to learn how.

[Duanemclemore]

The biggest issue I had migrating as a Photoshop user since 1996 was the key bindings. But using the config files people shared online sorted that.

I'm not going to link to a specific one implying I'm recommending it, but a web search will show multiple.

One important gimp note is if you don't have 3.0+ already, get it. It finally has non-destructive editing, which is the main reason I had to keep using ps for for a long time.

[Lammy]

> The biggest issue I had migrating as a Photoshop user since 1996 was the key bindings

RIP GIMPshop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMPshop

[mamonoleechi]

It's easy to change keybindings on Gimp, most of mines are ones i used in photoshop 4-CS2.

>It finally has non-destructive editing

not for the fonts unfortunately, if you resize a text with the scale tool, it gets rasterized

[hyperlink014]

I use Photopea which tries to mimic Photoshop UI and runs entirely on your browser. In fact, you can even install it as a Web App to run it offline. Pretty intuitive UI.

https://www.photopea.com/

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

Yeah, but Photopea has a monthly cost and this post is about avoiding that. I love pwa, but I need image editing maybe once a month, I'm not going to pay a subscription for that

[fodkodrasz]

Paint.Net on Windows. Though on Windows there is Paint, that is less capable, but still no equivalent is on MacOS OOTB. (Also the drama around Paint is worth its own bashing).

I'd be interested in a similar basic tool as paint for mac and Linux (and possibly also for windows, if MS crappifies Paint, after it has tried to kill it earlier)

[UncleSlacky]

Pinta (essentially a reimplementation of Paint.NET) exists for MacOS as well as Linux and Windows: https://www.pinta-project.com/releases/

[bad_user]

GIMP takes some time getting used to, but it's reliable, it will stick around and having used it for the past 20 years, I have issues switching to something else.

[snielson]

I use Paint.net for simple tasks like those you listed. I paid $10 for it in the Microsoft store but I think you can get it for free from the website.

[dokyun]

Paint.net isn't free software, it's proprietary freeware. It used to be free a long time ago, but the author is a tool and made it closed source because people were creating other versions of it.

[wrp]

For simple things, I use mtPaint on Linux and PhotoFiltre on Windows. They are easy to figure out and very stable.