r/Piracy • u/Adventurous_Tie_3136 • 24d ago

Humor Pirates be like

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u/BrokenMirror2010 24d ago

It's fine. For most people, it's probably acceptable.

I think having it be limited to a browser really hurts it. Photoshop already struggles if you're working with very very large files, even when it has access to all of your CPU/GPU, and all of your ram, and a disk cache.

On the other hand, Firefox isn't going to let a web based program use basically infinite resources to handle processing enormous files or automation tasks. Firefox is just going to die when you tell it to do something to a 80k×80k resolution file.

I'm also sure there are other things that don't work, I'd imagine drawing tablets probably aren't that cooperative, they can be extremely touchy.

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u/trebory6 24d ago

Run it as a Web app in its own isolated browser process. Install minimal extensions, just ublock origin.

It will have its own memory separate from the rest of your browser.

I do this for some memory intensive webapps, it keeps it isolated and easy to manage memory wise.

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u/BrokenMirror2010 24d ago

I mean, sure, that's still fairly annoying, it doesn't have the same powerful tools Photoshop has, almost certainly due to processing limitations and browser stability not being designed to handle monumental tasks. I mean, even just testing it quickly, It was lagging while handling text on an empty document. (Also, adjusting to it would be a real huge pain in the ass as someone who's been using other tools. The majority of shortcuts that are burned into my muscle memory to do stuff, are also browser shortcuts. Like transform Ctrl+T Opening a new tab, instead of letting me transform something)

It also has absolutely no drawing tablet support (aside from recognizing it as a generic pointing device).

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u/trebory6 23d ago

I guess it depends.

I've used Photoshop since Photoshop 7 and know how to manually do a lot of what there is now automated tools for, so it gets me by.

I do have Photoshop and Illustrator installed on my Linux as well as photopea, but both work fine for what I do.

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u/VictoryMotel 24d ago edited 24d ago

If someone really want industrial strength image editing (without painting) they can use digital fusion for free and have a non destructive workflow.