I still remember looking at it (with its super cool sports car illustration) at the top result(s) at Sourceforge (when Sourceforge was the hub for all things open source, back in 2006), downloading each update from whatever computer from uni and bringing it back home to doddle stuff. Inkscape always was in my top 5 tools for uni along with GIMP (and Krita afterwards), Imagemagick, ConTeXt and MetaPost.
Inkscape is fantastic. It’s easier to learn than Ai and you don’t have to pay for it.
CMYK on the horizon too
Martin Owens is working on a new PDF exporter that will allow you to use an ICC colour profile to have correct CMYK colours for printing, basically essential for professional printing.
Been using Inkscape for about 15 years, probably the most enjoyable software I’ve ever used!
I wish the Inkscape team would make a raster option. GIMP is just lagging, and we need a solid pixel pusher.
Yeah that looked good. I just need a photoshop replacement with a modern UI
The thing is Photoshop does a lot of different stuff, like photo manipulation, painting, and pixel art. But it’s not really the best at anything besides photo manipulation probably. So it depends on what you want to do with it.
This would complicate the code behind Inkscape and the user interface a lot. It’s not just having an option to enable raster editing, the entire program must be rewritten, because its not designed to do raster editing. If they started with raster editing, it would be lacking too and the horrors from users would never end. I rather want Inkscape stay focused to what its doing best.
Either use GIMP or Krita. There are already excellent or good enough image editing tools.
You have checked Krita? I’m not doing much so it’s more than enough for me.
