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Graphite a FOSS Photoshop and Illustrator alternative with potential (half of the core team is European) (still in alpha)

Free online vector editor & procedural design tool

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Graphite - Free and Open Source web-based vector graphics editor and design tool

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Graphite: Open-source raster and vector 2D graphics editor

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Overloading names is frustrating...
https://graphite.dev/
https://graphiteapp.org/
I'm sure there are more...
- How about "Graph? Aight."
  
  Don't forget graph8
Looking forward to giving it a try. If it's more user friendly than Inkscape and less costly than Illustrator, I'm in.
- What do you not find user friendly about Inkscape? I only use it for trivial tasks so I'm curious to know how it falls short for more professional work.
  
  Been a while since I've tried to use it for anything serious myself but recently I tried to just crop an SVG that had random extra empty space in its canvas and it was an adventure. I think I gave up after 20 minutes and gave it back to the designer who has an Illustrator license
  
  Inkscape has been very unstable for me. I can never use it for more than 30 minutes without running into bugs or crashing, so I just stopped using it a few months ago
  
  Inkscape has features that only work with keyboard shortcuts
  
  I think it always depends on the workflow you "grew up" with. I for instance learned with Inkscape, so for my use cases Inkscape most of the time is a no-brainer.
- Inkscape is a better vector application than Illustrator. User friendliness arguments tend to come from users raised on Adobe and expecting alternatives to work the same way.
  
  I mean, sure, I learned with Adobe products, but I also think the UX in Photoshop is pretty annoying.
  I'm not sure it's that easy to determine which one is objectively the better app. There are too many subjective factors.
Can it make a circle?
.rs 👀
- It's eother from serbia or, my guess, written in the rust programming language.
  Edit: yeah, Github says 85% written in Rust. It's that.
  
  Yeah it's generally a mark of "developed with Rust" which, as a Rust fanboy, usually leads to a great care on usability.
Graphite is a free, open source vector and raster graphics editor, available now in alpha. Get creative with a fully nondestructive editing workflow that combines layer-based compositing with node-based generative design
sounds promising!
I always assumed GIMP was the answer to this question. Interested to see even more options out there. Great share, thanks!

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