So many douchebags in this thread.
I think you’re taking heat a little bit unfairly. This is, after all, the MILDLY infuriating community, and it can be a hassle when something stops working for you, even if it’s perfectly reasonable for it to happen.
I think you’re taking heat a little bit unfairly.
Most of it seems to come from one user who seems to hate me in particular. :D But it’s fun to start a controversial topic once in a while. At least I’m not getting banned for having a different opinion (which would’ve definitely happened on Reddit).
Guess I won’t be using photopea anymore
Never heard of it.
What I am hearing is that you don’t feel like my man should receive any monetary support for a slick and convenient web application he invested a ton of time into. Not something I would gripe about online, but you do you.
I am not paying another high subscription (yes, 96€/year is high for some people) for a tool that processes images locally, no.
That attitude has worked out fine in my life so far.
I am not paying another high subscription (yes, 96€/year is high for some people) for a tool that processes images locally, no.
Then self-host a tool you need for your commercial-grade tasks.
commercial-grade
Today I’ve learned that cropping five images in a row is “commercial-grade”. Sure…
Self-hosting is a good idea, though, if I can find some useful software in that field. See, despite all of the trolling you are actually giving me good advice. I don’t know if it’s intentional, but thanks nonetheless.
Today I’ve learned that cropping five images in a row is “commercial-grade”. Sure…
Today I’ve learned that you cannot use Krita to crop manually because you’re cropping waaay to many images and absolutely need batch processing but you also cannot self-host anything because “it’s only 5 images, man”.
Self-hosting is a good idea, though, if I can find some useful software in that field.
- *types bulk image crop site:github.com into search engine*
- *finds a bunch*
Huh…
Nobody wants random crap, trackers, spyware, and other garbage.
If photpea wanted to curate their ads, it might be different. Maybe they could even have an artists gallery or subscription to advertise for their heavy users.
But nobody in their right mind is going to stop blocking the major ad domians. Because that would just be stupid.
That said: I don’t even use photopea, they don’t have anything I want or need that I can’t just install locally anyways, which also is free and guess what No ads.
Works in brave normally.
are you sure it’s not a specific ublock filter or something? i accessed it in librewolf with the default ublock origin settings and it looked fine.
I’ve always ignored Photopea because it’s completely proprietary and the pricing is predatory. I don’t approve of those models, the same reason I won’t touch Adobe.
I wish Affinity would just release linux versions, but I expect those to get worse now that they are owned by Serif.
I think your best bet is to buckle down, swallow your pride, and learn Gimp. Yeah, it’s a dumpster fire if you come from a Photoshop background because it isn’t trying to copy Photoshop, it wants to be its own thing. But even though it seems counterintuitive due to your years of existing programming, it is quite powerful.
Even without years of experience, gimp is unintuitive, the affinity suite is so much easier to use
Krita in Linux has been amazing. I’ve never used Affinity, and I’m far from a pro… But I can do most of what I used to do in Photoshop in Krita fairly naturally. It’s way easier to transition to than GIMP ever was.
I fucking hate this app/site/whatever. It’s powerful, and has lots of features. But every single time I use it, the way it works is just off enough from Photoshop that I need to Google it, and I’m always pissed at the stupid reason. I hate Photopea.
Hol up Photopea’s nonfree software?!
nonfree as in with ads and not freedom
The comma in “please, turn them off” is infuratiating in ways I cant even articulate
It’s 100% grammatically correct, for what it’s worth. If it helps, swap the two comma-separated components: “Turn them off, please.”
I think it’s the condescending insinuation
This is what I meant. See: cant even articulate.
cant
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The infuriating part for me is “something is breaking Photopeia”, an euphemism for “we break Photopeia if you block ads”.
Krita works well for me
It’s nice but I need something simple for cropping images in a certain aspect ratio/resolution and then exporting it to webp. I think Krita isn’t the right tool for that.
Edit: Alright, I deserve the downvotes. I didn’t mention I need to do this in batch for multiple images.
It’s nice but I need something simple for cropping images in a certain aspect ratio/resolution and then exporting it to webp. I think Krita isn’t the right tool for that.
If you have trouble cropping and exporting under Krita, maybe using computers isn’t the right thing for you. It’s literally a single mouse click on this icon:
maybe using computers isn’t the right thing for you
Sir, this isn’t Reddit. Please calm down. :)
And now tell me how to batch-crop and export multiple images as .webp, if it’s doable in Krita. Because I don’t know how.Calm down.
Why would I be not calm? I’m not the one getting nervous at looking at other alternatives.
And now tell me how to batch-crop and export multiple images as .webp
https://imagemagick.org/script/command-line-processing.php
Use the right tool for the job instead of complaining.
If something was previously the right tool for the job, then, despite no apparent changes in the behavior of the user, is intentionally broken by the creator of the tool and is no longer suitable - that is absolutely, 100% worth complaining about.
IMHO.
that is absolutely, 100% worth complaining about.
So commercial-grade batch processing of images on other people’s infrastructure and dodging any form of compensation is 100% worth complaining about? OK.
Doesn’t photopea run locally?
Thank you, that’s my opinion as well. I know developers need to put food on the table, but then they should at least be honest about that. Going into the uBlock Github and trolling people there while claiming you “always supported ad blockers” isn’t the right way and I am not financially supporting developers who act like this.
I am not financially supporting developers who act like this.
Are you financially supporting literally any developers at all? You made it clear you were not paying for a Photopea subscription and were using uBO, so there’s not a carrot or a stick here for the maintainer of Photopea (I guess there’s a very tiny carrot for losing you as a user in that you’re not using their resources). I mean that as a genuine question, by the way:
- What software that you use have you paid for and/or donated to?
- Was it because you had to, or because you felt strongly that they deserved compensation for their work?
- Did you ever at any point stop giving said software maintainer money when you felt they were no longer acting in a way that comports with your standards?
I am not financially supporting developers who act like this.
You were not financially supporting the developers before either. You admitted that you do frequent batch processing of many images on their infrastructure. If anything, losing you as a user is saving them money.
Bro why you being mad cringe try just suggesting things instead of being a dick
I did suggest many things, from how to crop in Krita, using ImageMagick, that Gimp is fully capable of cropping (OP refused to use Gimp for that task because it’s “shit” in his eyes), how to look up open source alternatives on GitHub (I found a bunch, including a python GUI application running locally), etc.
OP made a many BS claims, by insisting that he needs batch processing but when suggesting to self host, he refuses this by saying that he’s only cropping 5 images.
I’m envious of your energy if you’re willing to spend it to set up a self hosted thing to batch process 5 images when there’s an off the shelf solution that works just fine but has ads. Sometimes the job is big enough to be annoying to do it one way but not too big to be worth the trouble of setting up an entire GitHub repo locally.
I’m not the one getting nervous at looking at other alternatives.
I am not nervous, I am mildly infuriated. There are other tools and I will learn them.
Use the right tool for the job
imagemagick certainly isn’t the right tool for batch-cropping, unless the cropped area is always in the same place (I need a visual representation before cropping and a commandline tool doesn’t cut it here). But thank you for at least trying to suggest an actual solution instead of patronizing me.
You could try Irfanview. Its not FOSS and its at a cost if this is a commercial thing
I am mildly infuriated.
Calm down.
I need a visual representation before cropping
Then pay. You’re using a commercial service to do commercial-grade tasks. Stop to dodge compensation.
Have you tried using the BIMP plugin for GIMP? It might be an option? https://thegimptutorials.com/how-to-do-batch-processing/
Yeah krita definitely isn’t the right tool for bulk jobs. You might want to look into learning to use imagemagick’s command line tools, they’re pretty much the gold standard for bulk image tasks
ImageMagick?
something simple for cropping images in a certain aspect ratio/resolution and then exporting it to webp
Gimp 3 is awesome, free, etc
gimp, pix.
I don’t think mods would appreciate us posting pics of our gimps.
Works fine for me, Firefox and Ublock Origin, DNS by PiHole. I think there’s something on your machine causing this.
Same. I just checked and it’s working fine for me on Zen browser with adnauseum. No ads present, and no popups about ad blockers either.
Oh damn, I just used it a couple of days ago. I’ll check later this week if I am still able to use it with uBO.
Gimp 3 is awesome now, and 100% free + no ads. Just sayin
I love GIMP but it got really laggy for me with version 3 and I haven’t been able to figure out why. :(
