Gregory's ServerI'm preparing my slides for the #geekfaeries festival, and this one sums-up easily my best carreer decision.
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@davidrevoy might add "Rawtherapee" or "Darktable" to the List as a replacement for Adobe lightroom. And I can highly recommend the webpage https://alternativeto.net in case newbies are looking for alternative solutions for their problems @jakob_thoboell Hey, it's a slide from my Bio, explaining a change I made in my life back in 2009. Not an 'alternative to' talk. I was a pro digital painter/illustrator at that time, Photoshop teacher in CG high school and concept artist. I wasn't using Photographer software. The aim of this slide is to show what was my decision back at this time, after an issue with Vista hardware Ps and Corel Painter licenses. But thank you for adding information on the comments. @davidrevoy I see. Didn't get, that the complete talk is about biography. IN case of my biography, The discovery of Darktable as an alternative to lightroom was the last important step to finally completly leave Windumb.  @davidrevoy how did you find the move in 2009? Was it difficult or pretty straight-forward? @stragu It was hardcore difficult; tablet support required editing many X11 files as root; digital painting software with a bit of features required to be compiled manually, and performance were attrocious... (Like Krita couldn't paint smoothly on a 500x500px canvas at this time). But it was also pure joy of hacking, and statisfaction to make it work; to find alternative in a world were no alternatives was the default. Nowadays it's much much easier and tools are great.   |
@davidrevoy Always prefer #FOSS