Photoshop alternative
If you use KDE, you probably already tried Krita, a image editing software that integrates with the desktop like all the K apps family.
In this review they mention a program called Pixel, which gives you a multiplatform Photoshop alternative for a very reasonable price.
If you buy the beta now, you pay even less and for all supported platforms and upgrades until the next major version.
EDIT:
I just got some comments on this blog entry. Oh, it is advertising, it is spam. Why promote a closed source app. What am I saying? etc. I use my blog to post whatever link, program or technology I find while surfing and I think it is worth downloading and giving it a try. I carefuly categorize my blog posts so photos of my cat (no, I don’t own a cat, but I hate those posts) are not syndicated planet sites, but still people get pissed with something. Ok, why I posted this app? because I found interesting being multiplatform, similar to a product used a lot, and much cheaper. Why did I post Krita next to it? because I use Krita and KDE, and actually I haven’t tried Pixel, nor I wilI. I always try to give a link to the free alternatives when I link a closed app. Anyway. Now the edit is longer than the original post.
Ok, I had more luck: no one cared when I wrote a similar article - but that’s maybe because I’m not on any planet and do not have as many readers as you have.
But the point is: it is your blog, so one has to care what you write. And there is nothing bad to show that even proprietary developers try to develop for Linux - it is a very good sign that Linux is more and more accepted.
Don’t bother with ranting people who do not like your opinion: they don’t care because they do not understand what freedom is.
liquidat
30 Sep 06 at 11:52 am
I tried Pixel32 once, and was pretty impressed for about 10 minutes, until it started crashing like crazy. I’m much more excited about Xara for Linux, which I’ve already started using:
http://www.xaraxtreme.org/
Please don’t be intimidated by the GPL purists who try to shout down anything that doesn’t fit within their personal definition of “freedom.” Did you hear that Debian is threatening to rebrand Firefox, just because its icon is trademarked?
jayKayEss
30 Sep 06 at 12:29 pm
Re: your edit:
You know, there are people in planet KDE that already post demo of their open source app that requires a proprietary technology (Flash) to view it. So actually there are even worse things done that what people about that you did… ;-/
Hub
30 Sep 06 at 12:41 pm
Pixel is definitely worth mentioning on blogs. It seems to be a very serious contender and the developer seems to have a nice roadmap. In fact the roadmap includes things the Gimp and Krita will not likely have for years - for example vector and dynamic effect layers.
nonnano
30 Sep 06 at 1:15 pm
I do a lot of image editing, I\’ll definitely try this out especially since it is cross platform (no more changing \’modes\’ when switching between computers). Who cares if it is closed source? It is reasonably priced and it gets the job done. When a better Open Source alternative exists (I\’ve used GIMP a lot and Krita some), I\’ll consider that.
Celeste Lyn Paul
30 Sep 06 at 5:12 pm
I actually bought Pixel32 years ago and you know what? Support was added for a few more architectures but for a very long time this project went nowhere and stability has been horribly for the year that I did actually try to use it from time to time. I feel I wasted my money, especially since the copy-protection used really screwed me over at one point and refused to work. I had already been a Linux user at that point but due to the recent developments in Krita I never looked back.
Jan
1 Oct 06 at 2:12 am
I still like your blog
LEo
1 Oct 06 at 3:26 am