November 6, 2024, marks the end of the 20th anniversary year for the Inkscape project, and the beginning of a new decade of adventure. There were a few milestones this past year, among them an informal global celebration, a bug-fix program, an About Screen Contest, an Inkscape Summit, a summer of code, and the launch of version 1.4.
Here’s a brief look at some of those milestones.
I wish the Inkscape team would make a raster option. GIMP is just lagging, and we need a solid pixel pusher.
You have checked Krita? I’m not doing much so it’s more than enough for me.
Yeah, but it’s a little too much about illustration for me. It’s great for that! I just need more of a pixel pusher.
Krita is good for illustrating and painting
Yeah that looked good. I just need a photoshop replacement with a modern UI
The thing is Photoshop does a lot of different stuff, like photo manipulation, painting, and pixel art. But it’s not really the best at anything besides photo manipulation probably. So it depends on what you want to do with it.
I need to be able to edit photos, raw files, lossless options, with layers, and a wide selection of touch up tools that can be content aware.
Photoshop is perfect, but I’m not paying for a subscription to a product that I realistically don’t need updates for.
I’d be totally fine using my old copy of photoshop CS if it would run anymore.
Gimp just had a lot of odd UI choices.
Rawtherapee?
This would complicate the code behind Inkscape and the user interface a lot. It’s not just having an option to enable raster editing, the entire program must be rewritten, because its not designed to do raster editing. If they started with raster editing, it would be lacking too and the horrors from users would never end. I rather want Inkscape stay focused to what its doing best.
Either use GIMP or Krita. There are already excellent or good enough image editing tools.