PSA: Photopea is a gamechanger if you are used to scrapping with Adobe

Thanks Justine @bellbird for adding this here! Great alternative and fantastic write up and tut!

 

Ooh I might be intrigued to try it cause there's just no money in the piggy bank for any upgraded software.

 

Off to read, thanks Justine! I have looked at this, but only at work... I need to try it out at home! Perfect reminder!

 

How dare they mock my Gimp lol

 

Intriguing! I would find it hard to get rid of photoshop but I also hate the subscription model.

 

I'm still limping along with CS5. I did purchase the Affinity Suite a few years ago when it was on sale during their Black Friday specials (I think). I've done a few layouts with it, but I'm so used to Photoshop, I always fall back on my old habits. At least I've got Plan B purchased and available when CS5 is put to rest...

@bellbird I had attempted Photopea a while ago, but there was no browser mode that I knew of. Glad to hear it. Thanks for all of your information and screenshots. I am also not a fan of subscriptions.

 

I checked out your post and Photopea is SO much like PS, my lawyer self wonders how they get away with that.

 

Wow! Great blog post! It seems so similar to PSE also. I may check it out. I have PSE 2024 so just before the change to the 3 year subscription.

 

Wow, it does look a lot like Photoshop. Glad there are becoming more options now. I gave up on them long ago after they went to the whole “renting” model. I have been using Affinity photo for so long now on my iPad that I don’t think I could ever go back to photoshop. It was a pain in the beginning when I had to google how to do everything but after years with it now my brain can’t figure out simple functions in photoshop any more. It’s funny how we get used to things. Thank you for sharing your in depth trial run with this new program.

 

That looks like a great option. Thanks for your time in playing and sharing. I have PSE 2022 and I won't be moving to a subscription, so it's good to know there is something else out there.

 

I played with Photopea a few years ago but found that it is very memory intensive for my browser and then saved file was huge. I had thought to use it on my work laptop for those days when I was bored at work with nothing to do, but then felt guilty about the size of the file to "download and save". Being a browser based software and with out iffy loadshedding power issues we had that also didn't work as when there was no power and no internet I couldn't scrap!

Since then I bought the Affinity suite and am loving using that... a once off price with all the functionality I need was a much better option me.

BUT if I ever got stuck I would definitely fall back to photopea as it seemed so easy to use... great tutorial on the blog too

 

@bellbird I found Affinity Photo very easy to get used to I guess as I wasn't inbedded in photoshop/photopea and so it was just one program to learn. i followed some photoshop tutorials and then just figured out how to do it in affinity. The affinity tutorials from @Angela Toucan are also a really good help whenever I get stuck.

I had used CorelDraw many years ago so had a basic knowledge of how to do things... and having scrapped in an android app (Pixellab) for my first few years, going to desktop was so much easier. I haven't looked back! I do wish though that Affinity Photo was available on android... that would really be nice!

 

I'm glad you are finding the tutorials helpful @CathQuillScrap