Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

GIMP Turns 27

gimp.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

91–100 of 310 posts

Re: GIMP Turns 27

#91

Post by Waterluvian »

jraph wrote: post #69
Waterluvian wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I appreciate what you’re saying. Do you mind if I dig into something a wee bit? Because us engineering types are often a bit communicatively tone deaf. What specifically in the comment suggests a sense of entitlement? For me, I see none. I see a, “as an expert user, it’s surprising that such an important feature has been missing forever and I would like to criticize that.” Edit: I’m not allowed to reply to your respo…

Whoops, I edited to state that OP didn't feel entitled to me in the meantime. Sorry for this. It's more the "surprise about some obviously, severely underfunded project missing features is not very impressive" part. To be clear, I'm almost 100% sure the OP comment was written with good intent. I don't work on the Gimp, I've read developers working on it at length, I think as a developer reading this comment I would b…

Holy cow. I’ve been on HN forever and I assumed when the reply button disappears it’s because they don’t want flamewars or whatever. Thanks!!!

Re: GIMP Turns 27

#92

Post by [deleted] »

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.

[deleted]

Re: GIMP Turns 27

#93

Post by jraph »

Waterluvian wrote: post #91
jraph wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whoops, I edited to state that OP didn't feel entitled to me in the meantime. Sorry for this. It's more the "surprise about some obviously, severely underfunded project missing features is not very impressive" part. To be clear, I'm almost 100% sure the OP comment was written with good intent. I don't work on the Gimp, I've read developers working on it at length, I think as a developer reading this comment I would b…

Holy cow. I’ve been on HN forever and I assumed when the reply button disappears it’s because they don’t want flamewars or whatever. Thanks!!!

I think you are right, but there's a bypass for us to use wisely :-)

Re: GIMP Turns 27

#94

Post by ravenstine »

I get why people take issue with GIMP, but I'm glad that it exists and has existed. Back in the day I got a lot done with GIMP for both fun and school work, and it was great that it worked both on Windows and Linux. Better tools are around now, and GIMP has failed to live up to a lot of its promises, but I don't get why people need to shit all over it. No one is making you use GIMP. It's honestly amazing that people can even come close to making this kind of software as FOSS and keep it going for this long.

Re: GIMP Turns 27

#95

Post by forgotpwd16 »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #50
forgotpwd16 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.

Lol this is an obvious lie. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9urjmg/i_made_a_free_... It was a serious Photoshop competitor before it made a single cent.

What the link you gave is supposed to show?

>It was a serious Photoshop competitor before it made a single cent.

Can you provide an actual reference of this? The AMA you gave explicitly says Photopea is making a revenue.

Re: GIMP Turns 27

#96

Post by anigbrowl »

danuker wrote: post #73
323 wrote: post #11

If they would just copy Photoshop... Even the 2000 version of Photoshop.

There is a fork called Glimpse. https://glimpse-editor.org/

That's a useful tip. I note the Glimpse people also have the marketing skills to put multiple pictures of the software on the landing page. Sadly Glimpse is on a development hiatus, according to the FAQ.

Re: GIMP Turns 27

#97

Post by nullpilot »

I've been using GIMP for over a decade for a good chunk of my image manipulation needs, from quickly cropping screenshots, creating the occasional image macro, prototyping logos before opening Inkscape and editing pictures to creating whacky abstract stuff[1].

Thank you to the creators and maintainers.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/45mTATy

Re: GIMP Turns 27

#98

Post by guntherhermann »

Cyberdog wrote: post #53
guntherhermann wrote: post #17

GIMP 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.

> One of the first FOSS projects I ever used. I pirated Photoshop soon after trying it. Oh… okay. Did you also steal a car right after you learned how to drive?

No, stealing cars and trying to drive them was how we learnt to drive. Driving lessons aren't cheap!

Re: GIMP Turns 27

#99

Post by Gigachad »

wankle wrote: post #80
Nition wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In some ways the de facto standard now is http://www.photopea.com in a browser.

GIMP I've used for years and years, never heard of photopea, was the comment a SPAM Ad spot?

Photopea is almost more well known than gimp these days.

Re: GIMP Turns 27

#100

Post by Gigachad »

anigbrowl wrote: post #96
danuker wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a fork called Glimpse. https://glimpse-editor.org/

That's a useful tip. I note the Glimpse people also have the marketing skills to put multiple pictures of the software on the landing page. Sadly Glimpse is on a development hiatus, according to the FAQ.

They try to hide this fact but the entire purpose of the Glimpse fork was the forker was upset about the name GIMP and wanted to rename it. No one cared and the years moved on so it's not surprising it's abandoned. See how they never mention GIMP by name and have a code of conduct as one of the nav bar links.
Post reply on HN