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Re:Reddit AMA on Photopea, a free alternative to Photoshop u... by aw3c2 on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @02:59AM (#18397695)
> www.Photopea.com , which is an advanced image editor, that works in a web browser

Free to use, not free software. I cannot imagine doing anything remotely Photoshop-related in a web browser...

> There was about 1.5 millions of visitors in October

Visitors do not equal users. If those were even 1% of that it would be impressive.

Re:Reddit AMA on Photopea, a free alternative to Photoshop u... by mackwerk on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @08:03AM (#18398810)
> I cannot imagine doing anything remotely Photoshop-related in a web browser...

I do that all the time, we might have different definitions of what photoshop-related is, but I often use pixlr.com to cut faces out of photos and put them on other things. I will check out his product

Re:Reddit AMA on Photopea, a free alternative to Photoshop u... by batty_alex on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @08:25AM (#18398923)
> we might have different definitions of what photoshop-related is, but I often use pixlr.com to cut faces out of photos and put them on other things.

This is a tiny fraction of what Photoshop does. Even back in the mid-2000s, when I was a graphics designer, I rarely used Photoshop for simple work like that. It would have been the equivalent of using a nail gun for a single nail to hang a photo frame. You could do it, but the $10 hammer in the shed will work just fine.

Re:Reddit AMA on Photopea, a free alternative to Photoshop u... by yread on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @03:39AM (#18397835)
There is quite some MIT-licensed stuff here https://github.com/photopea?tab=repositories

He says he opensourced about 30% of it.

Re:Reddit AMA on Photopea, a free alternative to Photoshop u... by teddyh on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @07:20AM (#18398638)
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Re:Reddit AMA on Photopea, a free alternative to Photoshop u... by throwawaylolx on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @06:55AM (#18398552)
>I cannot imagine doing anything remotely Photoshop-related in a web browser...

Really? They already made Lightroom in browser making use of WASM.

Re:Reddit AMA on Photopea, a free alternative to Photoshop u... by xs on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @12:56PM (#18400814)
Been using Pixlr (a photoshop-like web browser app) for over 5 years now. Here's why.

* It's free

* It loads so much faster, and the interface is in my opinion just as responsive as photoshop.

* It doesn't require 200+ Meg of space on my hard drive

* I can use it wherever, on any computer that has an internet connection.

* And it has all the features I need in a photo editing tool.

The only drawback for me is that it was flash based and now I found a html5 version and I think I'm in love with Photopea now.