Re:Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project
by Nullabillity on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @01:09PM
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Where is the source code or even just Linux binaries? Otherwise Affinity isn't really relevant when discussing GIMP.
Re:Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project
by rgbrenner on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @01:16PM
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wasnt the question about replacing Photoshop?
Hate to break it to you, but not one person who uses photoshop uses Linux.
Re:Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project
by iaml on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @03:10PM
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>but not one person who uses photoshop uses Linux
Not true: I use photoshop (albeit, not professionally) and have a subscription for it, but am writing this from linux. Dualboot exists, you know.
Re:Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project
by H1Supreme on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @03:23PM
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That's absurd.
Re:Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project
by rgbrenner on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @03:26PM
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FYI Photoshop doesn't work on Linux.. so not so much absurd, as factual
Re:Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project
by cacarr on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @03:47PM
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PS CS6 runs well in WINE.
Re:Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project
by cookiecaper on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @06:54PM
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And iirc, Google sponsored the patchset that allowed CS6 to run on it. So someone out there wants Photoshop to work on Linux, and is even willing to pay for it.
The opportunity with Photoshop may not be to create another Photoshop clone, or add more features, but rather create smaller, specialized editing apps, that each target a subset of the Photoshop user-base, with perhaps less features.
Look at how Adobe Lightroom cherry picked a few Photoshop and Bridge components, to create a more specialized app that does a specialized job that Photoshop might have done in the past.
Or how Adobe's iPad Pro apps again deliver just a small subset of the total available features from their parent apps, making them more specialized for specific use-cases.
Photoshop's massive fragmented user base is ripe for the pickin' for sure. Could you tear down Gimp like that? Or would it be better to start from scratch?