GIMP Turns 27 • Hacker News Board

Re: GIMP Turns 27

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Post by kevin_thibedeau » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 10:42 PM UTC

Waterluvian wrote: post #20

failedartifact wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It means check ones entitlement at the door and put up or shut up. People writing free software without compensation owe nothing to anyone.

Re: GIMP Turns 27

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Post by t-writescode » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 10:42 PM UTC

Congrats Gimp! I imagine your devs come over here to read sometimes.

You've provided a solid picture editor for in-a-pinch and free-out-of-the-box usage; and, while I've since moved on to usually use paid tools like ProCreate and Affinity's software, you have facilitated by artistic work for decades!

Thanks for your amazing work!

Re: GIMP Turns 27

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Post by arunc » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 10:43 PM UTC

GIMP was the birth place of GTK, which was later renamed to GTK+ after it was rewritten to be object oriented. GNOME desktop environment still uses GTK+

Re: GIMP Turns 27

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Post by gryf » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 10:43 PM UTC

Daub wrote: post #25

gryf wrote: post #4

I congratulate them but after 27 years I'm still using and paying for Photoshop.

I recently made the move to Affinity Photo. The latest version gives me all I need. Muscle memory is still with Potatoshop, but I’m slowly transferring.

I have been contemplating this move as well and nearly bought the whole Serif package on sale but I am Adobe's bitch and getting too old not to just pay for the problem to go away.

Re: GIMP Turns 27

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Post by forgotpwd16 » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 10:44 PM UTC

iLoveOncall wrote: post #14

For 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.

>and it's light years ahead of Gimp.

Photopea makes millions. Maybe if people donated to support Gimp's development it wouldn't be that behind.

Re: GIMP Turns 27

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Post by danuker » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 10:45 PM UTC

jraph wrote: post #19

DIARRHEA_xd wrote: post #7

The 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.

Alternatively, if you want a circle and not a disk, after filling the circular selection, shrink it by whatever thickness, and then delete.

But I have felt no need for drawing circles. Those should be done in Inkscape. I am not sure they should be in a photo processing app.

Re: GIMP Turns 27

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Post by macrolime » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 10:45 PM UTC

They used to sell Gimp on CDs back in the days to sponsor development. I think I still have one from the late 90s laying around somewhere.

Re: GIMP Turns 27

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 10:46 PM UTC

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #31

Waterluvian wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It means check ones entitlement at the door and put up or shut up. People writing free software without compensation owe nothing to anyone.

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Re: GIMP Turns 27

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Post by bergenty » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 10:48 PM UTC

Proves the value of managers breathing down everyone’s necks. It’s a good tool but hasn’t achieved all that much over 27 years.

Re: GIMP Turns 27

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Post by iLoveOncall » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 10:48 PM UTC

MilStdJunkie wrote: post #26

iLoveOncall wrote: post #14

For 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.

Running in the browser is a no-go for lots of organizations, and Gimp runs in portable mode for those that can't install anything on their workstation. Yeah, it's not amazing, but Gimp is light years from Paint. Just removing background on stuff, crap like that, 80% of the graphics stuff people ask me for at work. It's not PS, it's not even Blender-levels of OSS, but it works alright. Now, compositing and actual chal…

I said that as "it is way better despite having more limited resources". You can even download the files of photopea.com locally and use it offline but that wasn't my point.