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by wizzwizz4 705 days ago
Try Krita, Darktable, Scribus and Blender.

You're comparing household name with household name. Commercial software has a marketing budget, but free software spreads more by word-of-mouth (or association with a big and processional organisation like GNU), so that's an apples-to-oranges comparison. GIMP isn't very good, as free software image editors go: Script-Fu, plugins, or UI familiarity are basically the only reasons to choose it these days.
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qznc 705 days ago
Is there any feature in Krita, Darktable, Scribus, or Blender, which Adobe products do not have? It certainly is the case the other way round.
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spookie 705 days ago
I'm curious as to which ones they do not have compared to Adobe products.

The only one I can think of is proper material layer painting in Blender, you can get there with addons but haven't found one that's as good. Genuinely the only thing that I miss, and I do this full time.

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wizzwizz4 704 days ago
Darktable has some features that RawTherapee doesn't, and vice versa. I imagine that some of that stuff isn't in the Adobe software. (I've heard that recent versions of Lightroom have removed local file management support, which both these programs still have – though don't quote me on that.)

Krita has a lot that Photoshop doesn't: https://docs.krita.org/en/user_manual/introduction_from_othe... .

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