![]() ![]() Photoshop is a swiss army knife, It literally can do Text, Vector, Shapes, Prototyping, Bitmap Editing, and Painting all in one, thus one reason it's so popular in the commercial sector. Krita is great for Digital Sketching & Painting, and has Blending Modes, MyPaint Brush engine and a lot of stuff but sucks at Text Tool and excels at everything else. GIMP lacks non-destructive editing and is mainly for bitmap editing. Inkscape has a huge learning curve but you can google tutorials or speed draws on youtube and watch to get a idea of the creation process. This is something that is actually relevant as a professional tool and if you are a programmer then lot of technical stuff you need to learn about rendering can be really enjoyable. ![]() If you are just want to learn graphical design, no matter what platform, then go with photoshop/corel draw (both not working on linux tho). If you are really want to lear some gfx design and stick with open source then you are screwed. I'm not even mentioning how badly designed these designing applications are. But still good luck with making DTP ready file for a client. You are working alone where no one cares what tools you are using. So in real world scenario Inkscape and GIMP are forįull Linux stack environment where everyone are working on Linux and got same tools - highly unlikely to find linux designers Or ready to print files (both can't do that). ![]() Same with sending editable file to your clients. Both of them are not popular outside of Linux environment and totally useless in real designing process when clients are sending you stuff in, for example. In fact, they will be a problem if you want to use them in your work. problem is if you want to "learn graphic design as a career diversification strategy" GIMP and Inkscape will not give you any advantage. Making mockups, icons, prototyping UI and such. I'm working in web dev (previously in DTP) and Inkscape is more suitable for my kind of work. If you don't want to print anything you create then go with Inkscape.
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