Photopea has completely replaced my Photoshop usage, and now that I have an Illustrator equivalent, that monthly creative cloud subscription isn't looking too appealing...
The comparison is not quite equal. Because if I don’t pay for photopea, I can still use it for free with ads. So in effect it’s like a pay-what-you-want pricing model.
Photopea and Vectorpea live in the intersection between Photoshop/Illustrator and apps like Canva, which, let’s just accept it, is the vast majority of users out there.
Pull back for a moment and consider where this is going. If we’re talking three-legged stools, good raster and vector editors held up by the browser means they’ve got a seat at the table. Adobe is literally spending billions trying to achieve the same thing.
This stuff should be baked into the browser at this point, but we’ll eventually get there. With decent raster and vector tools you can build diagrams, whiteboards, pagination, presentation, animation, app mock-ups, even throwaway social media banners—-and it’s all scriptable and multi-player when it’s in a browser. And it’s easier to tack on “AI” when your workflow (another example) is in a browser to begin with.
How is this guy like 1000x more productive than a typical developer? Seriously, some business school should do a case study on him to figure out what he’s doing differently!
i imagine it's 1) he reports to himself 2) doesn't have 5 levels of product owners/project managers "figuring out what's best for the end user" that, often doesn't align with the end user's needs and 3) reports to himself
Yeah I’m sure that’s part of it. I think he’s also just ridiculously good at programming and knows how to squeeze every ounce of performance out of a WASM app. One thing he has going for him is that the app design was basically done already for him by hundreds of people over 20+ years to design the original Photoshop interface (he’s basically totally stealing all of that from some old version of Photoshop, maybe version 6 from 2000 or so). It’s still an absolutely insane amount of work though.
10x, sure. 100x, I know there are plenty of people like that across the whole world. I don’t think there are many 1000x devs, and it certainly does take a lot to get there!
This is great news. I am a long time Inkscape user, but every time I open it for quick edits on macOS I am overwhelmed by performance issues and crashes. I resort to using Figma nowadays but it doesn’t work exactly like a vector graphics editor.
I hope the author pulls of the same black magic they did with Photopea.
Slightly off but Photopea is great even better than gimp imo when it come to psd compatibility. Inkscape is good for vector or ai files, will try this next time
Pretty good for a beta! I uploaded an SVG of my company logo, played around with the colours of the shapes, and exported as a large PNG file - it worked perfectly.
I'm genuinely excited for this.
Photopea is great. It's like 80% of the original's functionality.
I don't need to edit vectors illustrations often but when I do I've found it painful. Will definitely turn to this when that happens. (Haven't used product but have blind confidence based on Photopea).
Sometimes it's a question of accounting, depending on how the budgets are managed, it might be difficult to justify spending on something for 3 years later, if there's no real requirement to do so.
For some (family email, my email, super-vanity domain), I register them as far in advance as I can whenever they get close (ie <1y) to expiring. Just avoids hassles.
