My main issue with Gimp was and still is the user experience. Every year I try and get back to using it, and every year I realize it doesn't compare to things like Sketch, Acorn or Adobe's suite. That's honestly the only reason I am still using MacOS.
Gimp 2.9.2 Released
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Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released
#22On that topic I would be curious what people use on mac other than photoshop for both Gimp and Inkscape. The best I found so far is Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer but while they are superior than Gimp and Inkscape in many regards, they are also lacking in others :(
Not quite a replacement but I use Sketch for Mac. I really like it.
Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released
#23On that topic I would be curious what people use on mac other than photoshop for both Gimp and Inkscape. The best I found so far is Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer but while they are superior than Gimp and Inkscape in many regards, they are also lacking in others :(
Check out Acorn. Been using it for a few years now.
Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released
#24On that topic I would be curious what people use on mac other than photoshop for both Gimp and Inkscape. The best I found so far is Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer but while they are superior than Gimp and Inkscape in many regards, they are also lacking in others :(
Not quite a replacement but I use Sketch for Mac. I really like it.
Same - recently began using using Sketch & would recommend it highly
Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can use Gimp and Inkscape on a Mac too. Gimp works very well with it. Inkscape isn't quite as good as it runs with Ctrl-based bindings under X11.
The experience of both is abysmal. Especially Inkscape is absolutely terrible and makes me angry every time I use it.
I have Sketch and Affinity designer, and both are very good programs, but for raw SVG-ing (where I want full compatibility or anything similar) I still use Inkscape. It works, and works well, I'm not sure what your issues may be but I've been using it for, like, 8 years already (on Mac, I mean) and the latest versions are the best so far. Same for Gimp. I usually use Pixelmator, but Gimp is my second option (and depending on what I want to do, first option.)
Keep in mind there are "native" apps now for both Gimp and Inkscape (i.e. no longer requiring X11 open and using C- bindings, I'm not sure if for Inkscape it's a fork or what, though, been a long time since I installed it). This has made working with them much better for me.
Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released
#26On that topic I would be curious what people use on mac other than photoshop for both Gimp and Inkscape. The best I found so far is Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer but while they are superior than Gimp and Inkscape in many regards, they are also lacking in others :(
Pixelmator [1] for rasters (though it does have some vector support) and Sketch [2] for vectors are popular alternatives.
Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released
#27My main issue with Gimp was and still is the user experience. Every year I try and get back to using it, and every year I realize it doesn't compare to things like Sketch, Acorn or Adobe's suite. That's honestly the only reason I am still using MacOS.
Try Krita, friend
Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can use Gimp and Inkscape on a Mac too. Gimp works very well with it. Inkscape isn't quite as good as it runs with Ctrl-based bindings under X11.
AFAIK, Gimp and Inkscape (like most gfx software from Linux) doesn't support retina resolutions either (on Mac OS X at least), leading to all kinds of problems.
There is a gtk3 branch of gimp which brings HiDPI support. I still need to land the new frame clock (for vblank sync) for the gtk quartz backend though.
Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can use Gimp and Inkscape on a Mac too. Gimp works very well with it. Inkscape isn't quite as good as it runs with Ctrl-based bindings under X11.
The experience of both is abysmal. Especially Inkscape is absolutely terrible and makes me angry every time I use it.
I love Inkscape on Linux (and it worked well on Windows for me in the past), but it's close to unusable on OSX.
This is one of the biggest reasons I could never use OSX as my OS.
Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released
#30good support for 16 bit editing, finally! Maybe I should try to come to terms with Gimp's GUI again...
This really is an amazing milestone. Almost a decade of work getting up to here!
Well done Gimp devs, and everyone involved.