I mean, sure. But on the other hand:
- Paint is not only free but built-in
- Paint.net is free and covers most of what I'd need to do
- GIMP is free. Cumbersome, but if I need to do any batch operations that's when I bring out a full suite.
If I only need to do a quick edit for some hobby thing, I'm not frought for options.
>but it's just annoying to not be able to use the same software as my artists
So you are a professional? If you have artists at your beck and call and it's not a forboding deadline, I don't know why you wouldn't ask the artist to make the edit.
There's definitely a debate to be had about proprietary file formats (I work in games, so I completely understand that with its 3d equivalent that is the FBX format... thankfully there are very slow moves to cast that away), but I'm not sure I have a good solution. I don't necessarily think a company should be forced to open source/spec its own tooling.
- Paint is not only free but built-in
- Paint.net is free and covers most of what I'd need to do
- GIMP is free. Cumbersome, but if I need to do any batch operations that's when I bring out a full suite.
If I only need to do a quick edit for some hobby thing, I'm not frought for options.
>but it's just annoying to not be able to use the same software as my artists
So you are a professional? If you have artists at your beck and call and it's not a forboding deadline, I don't know why you wouldn't ask the artist to make the edit.
There's definitely a debate to be had about proprietary file formats (I work in games, so I completely understand that with its 3d equivalent that is the FBX format... thankfully there are very slow moves to cast that away), but I'm not sure I have a good solution. I don't necessarily think a company should be forced to open source/spec its own tooling.