‘Goodbye Photoshop’ and ‘Hello Krita’ at University Paris 8

Re:‘Goodbye Photoshop’ and ‘Hello Krita’ at University Paris 8 by untog on Friday January 16, 2015 @10:31AM (#8899466)

I think there isn't a good Photoshop replacement because it tries to do too much. For example, it's used by both photo editors and web designers. The crossover of requirements there is really quite small - so I'm quite happy to see smaller apps hacking away at a subsection of what Photoshop does.

For example, I work almost exclusively on web UI stuff, and I love Sketch. The UI just makes so much more sense to me.

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Re:‘Goodbye Photoshop’ and ‘Hello Krita’ at University Paris 8 by reitoei on Friday January 16, 2015 @11:44AM (#8899958)

> it tries to do too much

I don't think it does. It offers a massive feature set that is useful to different people in different ways, but there is still a lot of crossover.

Maybe you're pigeon-holing users based on their 'roles'. Web designers/photo editors, when working in Photoshop are both working with layered images at the end of the day. Plus people have different ways of working. You may do web UI stuff, but you may have a completely different workflow to another web UI designer.

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Re:‘Goodbye Photoshop’ and ‘Hello Krita’ at University Paris 8 by jcrawfordor on Friday January 16, 2015 @11:49PM (#8903449)

I think this points to a bigger difference between engineers and "normal people" - programmers tend to have grown up on the Unix philosophy of "do one thing well," but most everyday users find out that they need to use a different tool for a task and get irritated with that.

The fact that Photoshop can do so many things is a huge appeal to users, because if they need to do some workflow item that maybe isn't part of their normal job, they can still do it within a familiar tool. This is handy and saves learning time.

Compare this to "unix people" who are likely to regard a tool with a lot of functionality they use rarely as bloated.

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