I thought I would force myself to use a photoshop alternative this week, I’ve tried The GIMP and GIMPShop in the past, and found them to both be impossible to use. I decided to give paint.net a try, and I’ve really been digging it. I don’t do a lot of hardcore design work and paint.net has all the basic functions I use: resizing, cropping, measuring, stuff like that. Not only that paint.net loads in about 20 seconds and only uses 15 – 20MB of RAM. Photoshop takes at least a minute to load and tends to use anywhere between 80 and 300MB of RAM. Oh and if you need to open psds someone has developed a plugin.
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I downloaded and installed it. It opens PSD files pretty slow / incomplete, but I am going to use it for stuff like PNGs, JPGs, and GIFs at least in the short term, see how it goes.
I downloaded and installed it. It opens PSD files pretty slow / incomplete, but I am going to use it for stuff like PNGs, JPGs, and GIFs at least in the short term, see how it goes.
I haven’t tested the PSD plugin extensively. I just tried openning 1 psd, loaded just as quickly as it would have in photoshop. I wouldn’t use paint.net to do any serious editing to a psd.
I haven’t tested the PSD plugin extensively. I just tried openning 1 psd, loaded just as quickly as it would have in photoshop. I wouldn’t use paint.net to do any serious editing to a psd.