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   Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 07-Aug-2025 10:55:38 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

   Have you all seen pixieditor? An open source image editor without a stubborn developer or a terrible name!

   I just became a supporting founder and it would be great to see this succeed.

   #opensource #libregraphics https://pixieditor.net/

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     Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 07-Aug-2025 11:04:28 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

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     • Ernie Smith

     I am very happy to see more projects make it clear they don’t use AI on the homepage.

     I started working on a new graphic for my website today, using Affinity Photo. I’m going to try and make it using this instead.

     Big thanks to @ernie for mentioning this in the latest https://tedium.co

     #opensource #libregraphics

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     freezr (freezr@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Aug-2025 12:28:01 JST freezr

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     @mattl

     The project looks cool, however I will never touch anything that is made with C# or .NET and Mono... 😖

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     Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 07-Aug-2025 12:46:05 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

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     I’m looking forward to making this a part of my workflow

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     Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 07-Aug-2025 13:32:06 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

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     For around $27 you can sponsor the project with a one time payment #opensource #libregraphics

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     Paul Sutton (zleap@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 07-Aug-2025 23:28:30 JST Paul Sutton

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     @mattl

     Cool, I will see if I can write a blog post about this.

     Good tools with a sensible name are much needed, most are named in such a way that the name has nothing to do with the use, and word association is usually a factor in remembering things.

     Great work.

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     Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 08-Aug-2025 00:23:33 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

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     • 🔻Fr∴ Haën🔻

     @HN414 the name isn’t (it’s an ableist slur) and attempts to get the developers to care about it have gone nowhere

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     🔻Fr∴ Haën🔻 (hn414@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Aug-2025 00:23:35 JST 🔻Fr∴ Haën🔻

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     @mattl Is Gimp not cool anymore?

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     Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 08-Aug-2025 07:23:32 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

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     https://social.coop/@mattl/114989773892172596

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     Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 09-Aug-2025 05:09:14 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

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     • Hraban (fiëé visuëlle)
     • Ernie Smith

     @fiee @ernie You could also consider hopping on their forum or filing some GitHub issues for the kinds of things you'd like to see.

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     Hraban (fiëé visuëlle) (fiee@literatur.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Aug-2025 05:09:16 JST Hraban (fiëé visuëlle)

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     • Ernie Smith

     @mattl @ernie
     Ok, just tried it. Not even simple resolution or color space changes, no filters, no gradation curves or other means of photo editing. In short: completely useless for my tasks. Let’s look at it again in v4.0…

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     Hraban (fiëé visuëlle) (fiee@literatur.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Aug-2025 05:09:17 JST Hraban (fiëé visuëlle)

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     • Ernie Smith

     @mattl @ernie
     Thanks for the link!
     I need something for prepress image editing, switched from Photoshop to Affinity Photo years ago, but won't replace my 2013 Mac when it breaks down. Can't cope with the GIMP, and Krita doesn't fit my needs. This one gives hope.

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     Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 09-Aug-2025 05:14:46 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

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     • Hraban (fiëé visuëlle)
     • Ernie Smith

     @fiee @ernie You don't think telling them what you just told us would help them at all?

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     Hraban (fiëé visuëlle) (fiee@literatur.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Aug-2025 05:14:48 JST Hraban (fiëé visuëlle)

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     • Ernie Smith

     @mattl @ernie
     Thank you, but I don’t think that makes sense – it’s a completely different direction that they’re seem to head.
     And I don’t trust that someone who doesn’t think about photo editing would know how to do it right. (Sorry, I only know how to use such a program, no sufficient skills in programming and nearly no in that non-trivial mathematics.)

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     Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com) (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 09-Aug-2025 06:35:29 JST Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

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     • Hraban (fiëé visuëlle)
     • Ernie Smith

     @fiee @ernie excellent!

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     Hraban (fiëé visuëlle) (fiee@literatur.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Aug-2025 06:35:31 JST Hraban (fiëé visuëlle)

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     • Ernie Smith

     @mattl @ernie
     https://forum.pixieditor.net/t/photo-editing/320

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Aug-2025 15:48:44 JST 翠星石

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     • tyil
     @tyil @mattl >"open source"
     >Look inside.
     >C#
     >Lesser GPLv3 dumped in the root (the LGPLv3 is in fact a free software license), but no license headers nor statement as to the license, therefore there is no license and the copy of the LGPLv3 is just there to trick the user; https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#NoLicense
     >Proprietary CoC.
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     tyil (tyil@fedi.tyil.nl)'s status on Sunday, 10-Aug-2025 15:48:46 JST tyil

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     @mattl@social.coop Horrible CoC though, written in C#, and built on .NET.