If they would just copy Photoshop... Even the 2000 version of Photoshop.
GIMP Turns 27
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#12Still no adjustment layers, still no layer styles. It’s so easy to just critique away…but really? Really? Those are just absolutely essential image editing software features. What have they been prioritizing ahead of that?
And no macOS native gui ;_; It’s almost unusable in OSX because of that.
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#13There are some free software projects with bigger legacy then commonly realized. Gimp for sure is one of them, KHTML another.
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#14For it to have such a bad UX after 27 years is a feat in itself.
I can't fathom that to this day people present it as an alternative to Photoshop where it's little more than an unusable Paint.
I mean, photopea.com is free, developed by a single guy, and runs in the browser, and it's light years ahead of Gimp.
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#15Still no adjustment layers, still no layer styles. It’s so easy to just critique away…but really? Really? Those are just absolutely essential image editing software features. What have they been prioritizing ahead of that?
Its open source, so feel free to prioritise your own workload into making this feature.
Unless you are ideologically inclined, it would be a better use of your resources to just pay for photoshop. As much as it angers people on this website, the subscription model provides a constant stream of funding that has gone in to keeping the tool the best on the market and for anyone using it professionally, it delivers far more value than it's cost.
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#16If they would just copy Photoshop... Even the 2000 version of Photoshop.
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#17GIMP is legendary. One of the first FOSS projects I ever used. I pirated Photoshop soon after trying it.
Krita (https://github.com/KDE/krita | https://krita.org/en/) is a more intuitive UX imo.
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#18Still no adjustment layers, still no layer styles. It’s so easy to just critique away…but really? Really? Those are just absolutely essential image editing software features. What have they been prioritizing ahead of that?
> What have they been prioritizing ahead of that? There are very few active maintainers, what few there are have been scratching their own itches.
That's evident. I've used the tool periodically and I can't think of anything that's improved in the last 10 years. I think it actually got worse when they made all the icons greyscale and hid some under others. You still have 3 different tools for moving, resizing, and rotating when every other program has them all in one.
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#19The biggest stain on FOSS, with the worst apologists, 27 years strong! Try drawing a circle, in the year 2022.
select with a circle shape -> draw selection. Not as straightforward as possible, but still quite easy.
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#20Still no adjustment layers, still no layer styles. It’s so easy to just critique away…but really? Really? Those are just absolutely essential image editing software features. What have they been prioritizing ahead of that?
Its open source, so feel free to prioritise your own workload into making this feature.
I don’t understand this recurring retort.
Does it mean that to use a tool you must be capable of building it?
Does it mean that to share criticism you must be able to build it? I’m thinking about applying this logic to the rest of life and it’s rather amusing to imagine the silence. Hmm, maybe that wouldn’t be so bad.
I think one could more fairly say, “offer up money for someone to build the features you need” but I think that’s also a very difficult proposition given the logistics of the matter.