got this case and its really good quality, well worth the money!

You are a legend. Congratulations. Great content!

Photopea running in Docker would be an ideal. I'm always concerned that these online apps will suddenly disappear.

I like PhotoPea. One of it's killer features for me is the "Magic replacement tool" that is great for removing people and artifacts in life photos. Also I like the user plug-ins and although it doesn't support PS plug-ins, its library is increasing with the amazing effects.

PtSD...

on Linux I mostly use GIMP on even on windows, no PS

KDE is ugly Windows rip off.

Hi, technically this video is misleading in regards to Photoshop pricing. If you visit Adobe's website Photoshop is indeed £19.99 a month. However, this isn't the only Photoshop plan available for instance there's the Photography Plan for £9.99 a month. Now I know this isn't a Photography Channel and you probably only need Photoshop for your every day work on this excellent UKposts Channel but, I felt it had to be said that there is a cheeper plan available. The Photography Plan £9.99 a month For this you get Photoshop and Lightroom on all devices, including the Web on top of that this plan also has a whole host of other app including Premier Rush video editor, incidentally Photoshop has a fully functional video editor built in. Plus all the Plug-ins, Panels, Filters Actions and anything else you can think of to add, not forgetting all the tutorials which are available. Besides all this if purchase the Photography Plan on Black Friday or Amazon Prime Day, you can pick up the Photography Plan for less then Photoshop Elements. Photoshop on Black Friday or Prime Day is give or take around £75 to £80 for the year, incidentally you can purchase more than subscription on the day and stack them to continue consecutively one after the other. Now compare this with Photopea's pricing and considering all of the app you get with this plan including Photoshop and Lightroom is there really that much difference I can remember when I was paying nearly £400 every 18 months to 2 years just for upgrading Photoshop and Lightroom alone The fact is no other application free or otherwise compares to Photoshop in versatility and value Thanks for your time

What Linux browser are you using? I was really keen to try Photopea after watching your video but on FireFox on Linux Mint Debian, it says it can't open file from computer. (Looks like you were using Mint as well).

I don't understand why anyone would use an online photo editor? Some of my Photoshop files are over 200mb. It would be impossible to work with a file of that size online.

I have a nearly the same collection, namely various models of usb A to C, an rj45 eth to usb, usb micro sd adapter, too many sata 3 to usb and most of the logical one audiovisual data cable type to another(e.g. hdmi to dpi). I must say that premade LED test circuit sure beats making one each time... =D

Thanks Chris for another outstanding review. I have allot of my parents photos that I need to be retouched so I can send my nephews. This looks like the acceptable alternative to the $$$ Adobe Photoshop program when Gimp can handle the load. Have a great week! BTW! Nice drawing, from a stick-figure school graduate….😂!

Why was the photopea so advanced and more polished than GIMP (Photoshop of Linux)? Even smart object feature took GIMP ages to arrive but that was in photopea for a significantly longer time. Remember Photopea was developed by only one person but GIMP has a fairly large team.

I don't really agree that we should expect our image editors to fully support PSD, which remains a *closed* format. While Microsoft standardized and (eventually) opened its Office formats long ago (a twisted story of its own), Adobe has refused to do this with PSD. I understand that PSD is ubiquitous in the industry, but Adobe has leveraged that popularity to protect its position in this market. I thus despise PSD and avoid using it at all costs, though I fully understand that this is not an option for professionals in this field. They have work to do and can't lose money tilting at windmills :(. But why didn't the imaging/graphics world migrate to the XCF format long ago? XCF and PSD are both 32-bpc and support the same general features and XCF could probably add support for including Undo information, if desired, as it's designed to be extensible. It's long past time for PSD/PSB to have been made an open standard, so it's obvious that Adobe will *never* do so. I propose that this gives us no other choice than to introduce or adopt an *open* replacement format for PSD.

What about Canva? 😂 Just kidding 😂😂😂😂

I was SCREWED by adobe. I owned photoshop and premiere, meaning: I had perpetual licenses, until that is ... adobe literally removed their server* and COMPLETELY denied me ALL access to my programs. Programs I had paid a LOT of money for over the years, including the original purchase price along with multiple upgrades. I cannot even read my old (premiere) projects without succumbing to their extortion, by paying for a subscription to replace software I already bought. They stole from me. I will NEVER PAY another nickel to this HORRID GREEDY company ever again. I needed an alternative, so for the graphics editor I chose Affinity Photo. I love it. It is a VERY capable program, from a descent company, with a much superior licensing arrangement, for a very reasonable price. I see that Canva has recently acquired Affinity, but this seems to be a favourable arrangement between 2 companies who have similar respect for consumers. Honestly, I have no understanding at all why anyone would want to do graphics editing 'online'; I much prefer a solid program like Affinity, but for those who do, my vote would be with Canva. * For the record, the reason this mattered is that after a routine windoze update, both programs complained that my system had substantially changed, requiring online validation, which couldn't happen, because ... the server no longer existed.

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Unless you are a serious photographer or pro image manipulator, PSD is not the be all and end all of image file formats and Gimp, for example, uses a perfectly servicable alternative file format. As for importing existing PSD files into Gimp, just a little work on them will restore the the missing elements using Gimps own tools and the image can be resaved using Gimps file format. This, again, is a small price to pay for saving £260 a year. Of course, Gimp might make PSD files 100% compatible in the coming versions so we do not need to worry about this anyway.

The Internet as a whole has a fundamental problem identifying and understanding the difference between a single sample and a trend/average/statistical significant amount. (Eagerly awaiting the "Well *I* don't that problem" replies.)

mr vosh goes by "warranty voider" in my house

I was literally just researching this yesterday. How coincidental.

Still too high 3 yrs later. Better to by a 3 yr old lenova mini for 75 bucks.

The genuine "alternate to" video I ever watched...

Question, how do you get sound out of the Odroid N2+ ? I would also like to connect a microphone but can't find any video's or info on how to connect a microphone and speakers to do video's. Please help. Thank you.

The true Photoshop alternative is Serif's Affinity Photo

Great episode! However, I think we can analyze this in two ways: 1) Alternatives to do similar work as Pshop.; 2) Alternatives to Pshop. but being able to use already created files in the application. I think that are two related things, but different. Of course, someone would like to be able to use already edited work in a new alternative, but that's the catch: staying in that proprietary format and ecosystem or not. If you can sacrifice a part of the already made work, there are more alternatives. If you can't... Well, as we saw, not many. Very interesting and is a real problem when you have experience and known workflow, to migrate. I have a similar dilemma right now with C.Draw... And I'm using an old version for now. (product names edited to avoid YT automated censorship).

I'm not a Photoshop user, but I do have DxO Photolab installed on the Windows 10 disk on my laptop. I use it for processing the NEF RAW image files from my Nikon DSLR cameras. My PC is normally booted into Debian 12. Can you make any suggestions for Linux based RAW image processing software that's equivalent to DxO Photolab?

Thank you. I have sent links to my 2 Granddaughters and will try this out (I can't stand the UI and usability mess of GIMP !) FYI, I used to have both Photoshop and Corel because of client requirements. I could always do whatever was needed faster, easier with less clicks in Corel than Photoshop, including Apple's show demonstrators.

Very interesting episode Chris. As a long time user of Photoshop 7 for photographic work, when I needed a 64 bit program to cooperate with the latest version of Neat Image I bought the very reasonably priced program Photoline, which is an excellent Photoshop replacement. It will handle psd files but I've never tried it with multiple layer files. In it you can create actions, similar to Photoshop, which is a most important feature as far as I'm concerned. Edit. Just tried it with a 5 layer file and no problems at all. Btw, Photoline runs perfectly in Wine on Linux.

I primarily use GIMP for photo editing "Bring out the GIMP" but it lacks a function which Adobe Photoshop has and is enormously useful: Curves. Open the curves function and move the slider dot on the right to where the curves are in the rectangle, then do the same on the left and TA-DA! Photo comes alive. I do wish GIMP had this function!

Thanks, more useful even than usual as I'm a photographer and very dependent on LR & PS.

Many years ago I worked at a TV station in Telecine. When tweeking the colour and exposure of a film we did it mostly by looking at the waveform on the CRO. So, make the blacks black and the whites white (easy to do by waveform once you know what to look for) and you were 90% done as it did not depend upon the colour accuracy of the monitor. A final look at the image for any additional tweeks. Run the film for a few seconds to be sure then cue it up for transmission. The same applies for any still images we needed for transmission. I still use the 'make the blacks black and the whites white' technique in PhotoShop.

Krita can open .psd files Chris. Why not use Krita on Linux?

Thank you for another clear and coherent video that makes choosing an option much easier.

What about Gimp and Krita?

For linux, you have a photopea flatpak.

I would recommend not using PSD files and instead using a standard that isn't tied almost exclusively to one program. It was a bit tedious converting all of my MS Office archives to plain text, PDFs, or CSVs in order to conserve storage space and make them (more) readable outside of MSO. What's more, given the ridiculous SaaS model Adobe has adopted, there's even more reason to abandon PSDs. I don't understand why people are paying perpetually for software that has little more to add. Has image editing changed much in the past 10+ years that you need a monthly/annual subscription just to keep up? Maybe some prefer it, but I have no idea why one would finish a thumbnail and want to keep a huge PSD instead of just the storage-friendly flattened image in a common format (JPG, GIF, PNG, even webp). Changing the thumbnail isn't all that common, is it?

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My kind of video, this, Chris. Thank you. I use Pixlr for my thumbnails and my go-to for text in Shotcut who sadly can't do things like drop-shadow. Pixlr is so simple but I feel like giving PhotoPea a go. So will look forward to doing my next thumbnail with it. Also, looking forward to the video on GIMP 3.0 video.

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Nice !

Informative as usual. I had thought that GIMP was clearly the best alternative to PhotoShop. You amazed me to find one non-Adobe photo editor that can handle PSD files. Canva is something I use only for posters and flyers - which it's quite good at. I didn't think its image editing capabilities were on a par with the others. Never heard of Pixelr or PhotoPea. I have now. 👍

Thanks Chris. The "photography" plan from Adobe costs a tad under £10 a month and includes Photoshop and Lightroom Classis as well as the mobile and web versions (and 20GB cloud storage). In my opinion, that's a bargain, especially for those who use a lot of AI effects (with supported GPUs).

Photopea is awesome, for me I can set canvas size and create pictures for low res Oled displays in an instant and I am sure I could do this in all the other stuff too !! But I just like it and now with your seal of approval I like it even more because I know you use this software in the wild...cheers.

Please start including timestamps Please!

Trying this out on an old laptop, easy to install like you showed, thanks for the recommendation

Thank you sir, may I know why in my Ubuntu 24.04 I don't have a power botton in top right of the bar , best regards

About damn time, way better content than tons of other channels that offer nothing of value, congratulations

Such great information, Thank you, :)