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by egypturnash 2014 days ago
Illustrator has a lot of this too despite many different UI decisions. I tend to describe it as “designed for aliens and people who think like aliens”.

Which includes me, it’s been my main art tool for twenty years. I’ve seen a lot of people scream about how terrible it is that it doesn’t work like Photoshop.

So really I think that “a serious vector editor” is just gonna be hard for a lot of people to wrap their heads around.
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exmadscientist 2014 days ago
It's also interesting that the two editors seem to work for different people. I learned with Illustrator many years ago and can still use it decently well, though I rarely do so. At work I've attempted to use Inkscape, not having an Illustrator license, and completely failed every time I try.

You'd think one lightly-used (so no deep muscle memory, etc.) vector graphics program would be much the same as another... nope.

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app4soft 2014 days ago
> Illustrator has a lot of this too despite many different UI decisions... I’ve seen a lot of people scream about how terrible it is that it doesn’t work like Photoshop.

Try sK1[0], Scribus[1] & AzPainter[2] ;)

[0] https://sk1project.net/sk1/

[1] https://www.scribus.net/

[2] https://github.com/Symbian9/azpainter

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