And, no, this isn’t about GIMP (3.0/2027?), but I stumbled on this in an article I read this morning. I gave it a quick run and I was impressed and wanted to share.
This is a free web-based photoshop replacement, if you have light Photoshop needs, I would suggest you give a try.
www.photopea.com
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Thanks for sharing !
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this isn’t about GIMP (3.0/2027?)
This reminds me about that long ago MikroBitti, Finnish computer-magazine, listed release date of Duke Nukem Forever as soon as 2353.
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I have been using Photopea myself. Photopea has a solo developer too.
What I do though is I installed the webapp launcher software so I run Photopea through that. This way I can pin it to the task manager at the bottom and it will run in it’s own window like a installed program, my task manager is usually hidden so normally it will not be in front of the software like shown in the image. Then you can press f11 to make it full screen once open and it will look entirely like photoshop for the most part (Not shown in my screenshot otherwise the I can’t get the auto hide task manager to appear for the screenshot).
Webapp Manager via AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/webapp-manager
Webapp Manager github: https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager
I made Photopea open in a separate browser by itself though so it’s not sharing resources with other tabs. This browser I only use for Photopea. I have an ublock so it removes the side border that is usually there.
I currently use this in combination with Krita which I like a lot, with these two I have been able to do everything I used to on Photoshop. Krita also has things like colour management with ICC profiles which is another reason I use that for most things as I made my own calibration profiles with a colorimeter. Photopea is very powerful though it even had blend-if layer functions, clipping layers and much more that are in Photoshop, even Krita does not have blend-if implemented. That being said Krita is closer to painting software and Photopea closer to photo editing with some crossover between them hence why I use both.
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