November 6, 2024, marks the end of the 20th anniversary year for the Inkscape project, and the beginning of a new decade of adventure. There were a few milestones this past year, among them an informal global celebration, a bug-fix program, an About Screen Contest, an Inkscape Summit, a summer of code, and the launch of version 1.4. Here’s a brief look at some of those milestones.
  • @m4m4m4m4
    9•12 hours ago

    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.

  • @NineMileTower
    6•13 hours ago

    Inkscape is fantastic. It’s easier to learn than Ai and you don’t have to pay for it.

  • Earth Walker
    4•12 hours ago

    Been using Inkscape for about 15 years, probably the most enjoyable software I’ve ever used!

  • @[email protected]
    0•13 hours ago

    I wish the Inkscape team would make a raster option. GIMP is just lagging, and we need a solid pixel pusher.

    • Earth Walker
      6•12 hours ago

      Krita is good for illustrating and painting

        • Earth Walker
          3•11 hours ago

          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.

          • @[email protected]
            3•11 hours ago

            I need to be able to edit photos, raw files, lossless options, with layers, and a wide selection of touch up tools that can be content aware.

            Photoshop is perfect, but I’m not paying for a subscription to a product that I realistically don’t need updates for.

            I’d be totally fine using my old copy of photoshop CS if it would run anymore.

            Gimp just had a lot of odd UI choices.