• JayleneSlide@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Inkscape is for vectors and handles rasters poorly. I love Inkscape, but it boots slowly. Paint.NET is fast and light. Perfect for marking up screenshots for technical documentation. Pinta does okay in this role, but it’s no Paint.NET.

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      19 hours ago

      Wild concept here. Raster as background and marking up as vector graphics on an overlay. Or use gwenview which is designed exactly for that.

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        14 hours ago

        Gwenview is a new one on me. Thanks for the tip! Downloading it now.

        Raster as background and marking up as vector graphics on an overlay.

        There are lots of use cases for exactly that, like certain graphics tasks my partner does for her employer (flyers, t-shirt designs). with an existing raster image as background in Inkscape. For what I do, that workflow would be serious overkill.