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List:       kde-community
Subject:    Re: Call for contributors for Fixture [ Qt5 based raster graphics editor ]
From:       Nate Graham <nate () kde ! org>
Date:       2018-09-20 20:57:11
Message-ID: 165f8c5b6ac.b4c147f657956.2835566199711491396 () kde ! org
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People who want Photoshop will always want Photoshop. Not a clone, not a \
look-alike--only the real thing will do. People who are flexible will learn how to \
use GIMP--and these days, especially Krita, which is becoming a serious Photoshop \
competitor for many workflows. My wife uses it for art instead of Photoshop. It's \
awesome.

My advice would be to join an existing project to make it even better rather than \
start a new one. I see that your project has only two contributors. That is a very \
low bus factor. Wxperience shows that small projects like these will very likely be \
abandoned in a few years (sad but true), while larger projects are immortal. Krita is \
experiencing a real surge of interest right now, and I'm sure the developers would \
love to have you on board! Check out https://community.kde.org/Krita for more \
information.

Nate


 ---- On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 11:57:48 -0700 Kuntal Majumder <zee@hellozee.me> wrote ---- \
  > Hi 
 > I am Kuntal, as a Linux evangelist, when I try to convince someone to use Linux, \
most of the time I face questions like "Does Linux support Photoshop?", at the end of \
the day the discussion mostly concludes with "You can use Gimp or Krita". Both though \
pretty powerful have a very different workflow compared to Photoshop for which most \
people are reluctant to switch to Linux even though they require a pretty small set \
of features from what Photoshop offers. So a couple us are trying to build a raster \
graphics editor which looks and behaves similar to Photoshop with the help of Qt5. \
But thanks to our inexperience, every now and then we are facing roadblocks for which \
we rewrote the stuff a couple of times. We would love some help from you guys, better \
if you can correct us where we are going wrong.   > You can find the source code \
here[1].   >  
 > Thanks 
 > Kuntal M 
 >  
 > [1] https://github.com/eyeon/Fixture 
 >  
 > 


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