I don’t think anyone should hate gimp, even if they dislike using it. When a shitty subscription based service is the only game in town, you’ve gotta root for the free and open source underdog.
Reserve your hate for Photoshop, the monthly subscription that is so overpriced they force $300-400 cancellation fees to keep them addicted. They are the only product in this space that deserves hate.
no he’s definitely right. there is a reason affinity suit has been successful and it isn’t because its commercially available, it’s because it actually works as an adobe replacement whereas gimp, inkacape, scribus - does not, and its largely because of UI.
now that affinity has sold to canva and shut down sale and there is a clear concern over the future of affinity, people won’t be moving to gimp, which has had what, two decades to fix their stuff? no, they’ll be moving to photopea, again, for the same reasons. graphite.rs likewise is more at odds of potentially replacing illustrator/designer than inkscape has managed for over a decade.
i hate that i can’t use gimp, inkacape, and scribus professionally. and not for a lack of trying, giving them a few months every few years. but, its what it is.
As a user of gimp for years and Photoshop and way back when misc other photo editing software (does Deluxe Paint count? ok joking, I meant like Corel), I am a bit confused when everyone complains so much about gimp.
I can’t decide if it is just habits that people can’t get away from or if there really is some kind of issue. In the past I know layers themselves where the issue, but is that still the case now?
I remember a short video series that was like: you do this in Photoshop so just do this in gimp and it all made sense to me.
So is there a current video that says here is what I can’t do in gimp, and only in Photoshop and its all the UIs fault?
you forgot paint shop pro! but yeah you illustrate a good point; gimp is at least 10 years behind adobe/affinity/photopea. i’m honestly not sure if the things i need can be done in gimp because tutorial content is few and far between. there are probably no comparison videos because few professionals if any are willing to stick around gimp long enough to master it on such a level that they could put together a video that is honest or correct, and they would probably not want to make a video showing how gimp is crap as that is usually the opposite of a goal post here; i mean, absolutely no one likes Adobe and mostly everyone actually wish gimp was a replacement that could become a new industry standard because fuck Adobe.
Thank you, this is exactly my thought. I really want to use GIMP, i just literally can’t. I even managed to get used to Inkscape as an ex Illustrator user. I would say I can use any random graphics designer tool after roughly 20 minutes of getting used to the UI, since most of the workflows are copied from others. GIMP always wanted to be different. And that’s the reason it never got popular and it will stay like that, unless something changes.
Maybe, someone will be able to use the GIMP core and put a revamped UI on top of it. Call it LIMP to minimize anger from GIMP evangelists.
After using so many different tools, on all platforms, with great or shitty UI, I have seen it all — I still hate GIMP.
I don’t think anyone should hate gimp, even if they dislike using it. When a shitty subscription based service is the only game in town, you’ve gotta root for the free and open source underdog.
Reserve your hate for Photoshop, the monthly subscription that is so overpriced they force $300-400 cancellation fees to keep them addicted. They are the only product in this space that deserves hate.
Disagree. The product is awesome. The commercialization not. I beg to differ.
The UI of GIMP sucked and still sucks. Nothing is going to change that.
PhotoGIMP
https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP
Oh. Thanks for sharing!
no he’s definitely right. there is a reason affinity suit has been successful and it isn’t because its commercially available, it’s because it actually works as an adobe replacement whereas gimp, inkacape, scribus - does not, and its largely because of UI.
now that affinity has sold to canva and shut down sale and there is a clear concern over the future of affinity, people won’t be moving to gimp, which has had what, two decades to fix their stuff? no, they’ll be moving to photopea, again, for the same reasons. graphite.rs likewise is more at odds of potentially replacing illustrator/designer than inkscape has managed for over a decade.
i hate that i can’t use gimp, inkacape, and scribus professionally. and not for a lack of trying, giving them a few months every few years. but, its what it is.
i hope gimp becomes great one day.
As a user of gimp for years and Photoshop and way back when misc other photo editing software (does Deluxe Paint count? ok joking, I meant like Corel), I am a bit confused when everyone complains so much about gimp.
I can’t decide if it is just habits that people can’t get away from or if there really is some kind of issue. In the past I know layers themselves where the issue, but is that still the case now?
I remember a short video series that was like: you do this in Photoshop so just do this in gimp and it all made sense to me.
So is there a current video that says here is what I can’t do in gimp, and only in Photoshop and its all the UIs fault?
you forgot paint shop pro! but yeah you illustrate a good point; gimp is at least 10 years behind adobe/affinity/photopea. i’m honestly not sure if the things i need can be done in gimp because tutorial content is few and far between. there are probably no comparison videos because few professionals if any are willing to stick around gimp long enough to master it on such a level that they could put together a video that is honest or correct, and they would probably not want to make a video showing how gimp is crap as that is usually the opposite of a goal post here; i mean, absolutely no one likes Adobe and mostly everyone actually wish gimp was a replacement that could become a new industry standard because fuck Adobe.
Thank you, this is exactly my thought. I really want to use GIMP, i just literally can’t. I even managed to get used to Inkscape as an ex Illustrator user. I would say I can use any random graphics designer tool after roughly 20 minutes of getting used to the UI, since most of the workflows are copied from others. GIMP always wanted to be different. And that’s the reason it never got popular and it will stay like that, unless something changes.
Maybe, someone will be able to use the GIMP core and put a revamped UI on top of it. Call it LIMP to minimize anger from GIMP evangelists.
See PhotoGIMP above
i think professionals just aren’t the target demography for the gimp contributors.
Constructive criticism is good. I hope you reported bugs. Just saying you hate it, or it sucks, says more about you than the software.
Ok buddy
The UI got an overhaul with 3.0 it’s prettier now, it’s a bit of a learning curve but its worth it, even if just for the smug satisfaction
You can always reprogram keyboard shortcuts