been trying to excise adobe products from my life & i don't think one photoshop alternative really covers all bases but maybe between affinity photo for conventional photo editing and krita for more arty shit i can get by. i have used krita for (abortive attempts at) drawing before but i didn't really consider it for image editing. but ofc you can do that too. why not. i just did this with it

oh i found another feature affinity doesn't have that i actually do use regularly for conventional photo editing.....
i want to be able to apply auto levels to a photo in a way that's non-destructive and lets me see what it actually did. like applying it to an adjustment layer. photoshop had that, affinity doesn't. bleh

i hate the software industry sometimes. adobe spent decades building photoshop so of course they're way ahead of everyone else. and then after 25 years of development they took what they'd made and locked it away behind an extortionately priced subscription package and apparently have barely even improved the fucking software since they did that

wait so krita actually can do non destructive post editable auto levels as well
is the drawing program secretly better at photo editing than the photo editing program or what