Ubuntu has been a great advance towards the novice user within Gnu / Linux but it must be recognized that currently the biggest problem that exists to go or not to Ubuntu is the compatibility with the most common programs that we use in Windows. We have been talking to you about alternatives for CAD programs, but there are more programs like Photoshop, a widely used image editing program on Windows and Mac and that in Ubuntu there is no version but there are great alternatives for it.
The best of all this is that the alternatives we propose are in the official Ubuntu repositories, a fact that will allow any user, whether it is a novice or an expert user, to install the program they prefer with a couple of clicks.
Gimp
Maybe be the best known and most complete solution that exists within Ubuntu to edit images or create them. For many it is the perfect alternative to Photoshop, but Gimp unlike other programs doesn't work very well with Photoshop psd files. Something that is being solved through plugins and add-ons, another part that is giving Gimp success since it allows to considerably expand Gimp's functions.
Inkscape
Inkscape is a vector graphics program, closer to CorelDraw than PhotoshopBut of course when it comes to vector graphics, Inkscape is better than Photoshop. And like the Adobe program, Inkscape can also create and edit jpg or bmp images, only in a more rudimentary way than Photoshop.
Chalk
This program comes from Calligra's suite and it has far surpassed the rest of the programs in its suite. For many Krita is the worthy Photoshop clone and it is not for less since the work of the last years has been centered in being the most compatible with the native Photoshop files so that the user does not have problems in the edition of these. Besides this, Krita has a choice of plugins and add-ons that will equip it to programs like Gimp or Photoshop. Perhaps the only downside to this program for Ubuntu users is that need to load QT libraries, some of them do not have Unity beforehand.
MyPaint
This program, although it deals with image editing, is focused on the world of image creation. MyPaint has all the basic tools that a good editing program has, but its orientation is clearly related to creating images and of elements through tools such as graphic tablets. If your use of Photoshop is all creative, starting from scratch, MyPaint is your option.
Conclusion on free alternatives to Photoshop
If you are new to Ubuntu, right now you may be wondering which option is better. My answer would be that Gimp is a very complete and simple image editing program, but if you are looking for something more «guidosero«, Maybe the best option is Krita, but you can also install both programs and try them, it's the good thing about Ubuntu and Free Software, what doesn't blue screenshots (unless you create them with Gimp!)
Run it in wine and that's it ..
Sorry, but Inkscape and Krita are definitely not direct alternatives to Photoshop on Linux. Too bad they included those two options.
It's like having a 4 × 4 as an alternative to a race car. One thing has nothing to do with the other.
With your comment I already realize that you do not know specifically what photoshop is used for… I'll tell you. Photoshop is an image editing program similar to Gimp, krita is for drawing and inkscape is for vectors, this publication is poorly written. I assure you that it does not depend so much on the program, but on the knowledge you have in color, configuration and technical details. All the free tools including the color retouching ones that do not name them in this post as darktable, if you combine them all, if you have the knowledge , you can do whatever you can think of ... Likewise, we must clarify that photoshop is a very good program and if you have the money to buy it, obviously it is a good investment. And you are right, free software is not a 4 × 4, it is a tank war …… I used free software 4 years ago.
the one that if I consider an alternative to photoshop is gimp and the others that they name in this article are alternatives for professional drawing
Inkscape would be an alternative to Illustrator since it works with vectors. regards
gimp!
Actually, there is no professional alternative to Photoshop. A real shame and a drag on the Linux implementation.
I have tried to use gimp and it is the least intuitive program that I have seen very complicated and not even a quarter of photoshop options ... unfortunately this is the weak point of ubutnu and linux, there is no good photo retouching program and that is why I have windoiws 7 on the laptop, by photoshop….
Ishmael Vincent
Unfortunately here there is a lot of commentary on software, but not very technical, I think that if you know the technical part of a program, more than the name ... you can do anything and it does not depend on the program, but on the artist.
Linux sucks it will never be good like windows or ios and the users of this shit know about that and they do what they do not hear or see anything why suffer with this shit if you can use something good that really works and without worries as it is windows and ios hurts that they want to cover the sun with their finger, it really hurts
I think it's great that for not existing photoshop in linux you have to rant against it. But I think that is the fault of Adobe that does not release for this platform. {Since there is no business ...}
Windows is the biggest garbage that exists in OS Above all, all the trash that it has taken from 7.
Windows has made hard drives disappear and with Ubuntu I have managed to recover both the physical disk and the data. Which with Windows I cannot say because it directly buffs it if it does not detect a boot sector.
Windows tires me with its blue screens, its memory dumps and blackouts because yes.
How bad is linux, windows has bought your terminal to implement it in your OS
The only bad thing about linux is the competition from microsoft that almost forces you to put their operating system on all computers and that as soon as you tell a technician "I have linux installed" he shits his pants because you get him out of "restart the computer "Or" restore the system "and you have no more solutions.
That you compare me ios with linux, I can accept it, but that you tell me that linux will not be as good as windows ... you have no idea what you are talking about.
Surely on your mobile you have windows mobile instead of android, yes. Let me hesitate.
I use gimp, and I never had a problem opening psd files.
Here they say that it has them, it never happened to me, I decided to use Linux and I stay within it, perhaps for a professional photoshop it is essential, and I understand it, if that is your situation that you have windows and photoshop in legal form and the discussion
I think you got the wrong post
4 free alternatives to Photoshop in Ubuntu
The discussion of linux is always the same, bring people who use windows, to be what they could never be, a leader in the common and current desktop and for that they need tools already known by that user, and gimp does not comply with that or most of the software that is on linux. and I have already said this a thousand times, the union is strong, millions of distros do not help, the common and current user is entangled with so many distro.
I use GIMP, unique with a 100% developed environment with a Photoshop-like flow of experience.
I have the XP-Pen Star G640 A6 graphics tablet https://www.xp-pen.es/product/236.html . I use it for GIMP, and it works for me very well.