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GIMP Turns 27

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Post by colordrops »

jhoechtl wrote: post #201
colordrops wrote: post #200

It seems for years in every thread about Gimp I've seen, people are shitting on it. I don't get it. I suppose that it's from people comparing it to Photoshop? I've never been a heavy Photoshop user though, and Gimp has been perfect for all my basic non-pro-level needs over the years. I'm sure this is true for many others as well. Just wanted to say thank you to the devs in case you are here.

> It seems for years in every thread about Gimp I've seen, people are shitting on it. What is hard to understand? Gimp promised since ages CMYK editing or non-destructive overlays, nothing materialized or as a shit-show (CMYK can be exported but not edited)

It's FREE.

Re: GIMP Turns 27

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Post by [deleted] »

tredre3 wrote: post #101
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.

FYI GIMP's bitcoin donation wallet currently contains 362K USD. It peaked at about 1.2M USD a few months ago (yay btc volatility). Funding isn't what's holding GIMP back. Leadership is. Edit: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1NVMCeoBfTAJQ1qwX2Dx1... They also accept a dozen other donation methods.

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Re: GIMP Turns 27

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Post by macksd »

Cyberdog wrote: post #138
macksd wrote: post #102

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"You know what? I would steal a car. If it was as easy as, like, touching the car and then 30 seconds later I own the car. And like, I would steal a car if by stealing the car, the person who owned the car they got to keep the car. And uh, I would also steal a car if no one I had ever met had ever bought a car before in their whole lives." -- Mindy Kaling

I had no idea who this person was so I searched her name. Apparently she grew up in Massachusetts, went to elite private schools, and became a Hollywood actress and writer. Somehow I have a hard time believing she had to pirate Photoshop just to barely scrape by at any point in her life.

She also works for media studios who would see themselves as the poor victims of digital piracy. Instead of dismissing her viewpoint based on her status, maybe try addressing the point that stealing a car is actually not at all the same as copying software or digital media, and arguments that they really are equivalent miss the point and lead to pretty dumb laws.

Her most famous role was on The Office, which constituted a significant portion of Netflix's bandwidth (7% is one hand-wavy estimate based on related data), and Netflix has been estimated to have been an even more significant portion of worldwide Internet traffic (25% - 35% in some data). They're hand-wavy numbers but I would be confident that the show Mindy Kaling is best known for having written and acted in has easily made up over 1-2% of global Internet traffic at times. I wouldn't say she's entirely divorced from the issue of digital media piracy.

Also it's from a stand up comedy routine. It's okay to laugh in life.

Re: GIMP Turns 27

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Post by hallarempt »

lmm wrote: post #174
RubyRidgeRandy wrote: post #170

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I've never looked at Krita because it's always been referenced to me as a painting application primarily and not an image editing / photo manipulation tool. I understand there may be some cross over in functionality, but aren't they essentially built for different purposes?

I don't know; a lot of people say something like that but they never seem to give a concrete example of what the different things they need are. Krita has always been able to do all the photo editing I ever wanted to.

We have eight sponsored developers and about six million users. I don't think we're gonna asphyxiate any time soon :-)

Re: GIMP Turns 27

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Post by [deleted] »

Smithalicious wrote: post #257
anigbrowl wrote: post #65

> To celebrate [...] this nice birthday illustration (fully drawn within GIMP [...] There's some sort of weird inferiority complex when your graphics software is 27 years old and you're still saying 'look we used it for one of our website assets.' It's like telling people at the birthday party that you dressed yourself. I find it equally strange that there are almost no screenshots on the website, outside of the docs…

Are they the ones with a weird complex, or are you? Your post suggests that you feel like GIMP has something to prove much more than the four word throwaway line you're criticizing to me.

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Re: GIMP Turns 27

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Post by hitekker »

Smithalicious wrote: post #257
anigbrowl wrote: post #65

> To celebrate [...] this nice birthday illustration (fully drawn within GIMP [...] There's some sort of weird inferiority complex when your graphics software is 27 years old and you're still saying 'look we used it for one of our website assets.' It's like telling people at the birthday party that you dressed yourself. I find it equally strange that there are almost no screenshots on the website, outside of the docs…

Are they the ones with a weird complex, or are you? Your post suggests that you feel like GIMP has something to prove much more than the four word throwaway line you're criticizing to me.

Nah, it's them. The drawing in the blogpost just looks bad compared to what you can do in Krita.

Anyone aware of GIMP's history can figure out why the project goes in circles. History like how their developers "accidentally" deleted their entire roadmap a few months ago.

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Post by pwinnski »

colordrops wrote: post #291
jhoechtl wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It seems for years in every thread about Gimp I've seen, people are shitting on it. What is hard to understand? Gimp promised since ages CMYK editing or non-destructive overlays, nothing materialized or as a shit-show (CMYK can be exported but not edited)

It's FREE.

If no criticism of the product is allowed because "It's FREE," then why post anything about it? Why be proud of existing for 27 years if its best or only feature is "It's FREE?"

"I don't understand why people don't like it."

"It sucks in these specific ways."

"It's FREE."

Literal feces is free also, but most people aren't excited to receive it as a gift.

GIMP is considerably better than literal feces, but there are alternatives to GIMP in both FOSS and no-cost web-based form that are objectively better and also free, and have taken less than 27 years to get where they are.

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Post by anigbrowl »

Smithalicious wrote: post #257
anigbrowl wrote: post #65

> To celebrate [...] this nice birthday illustration (fully drawn within GIMP [...] There's some sort of weird inferiority complex when your graphics software is 27 years old and you're still saying 'look we used it for one of our website assets.' It's like telling people at the birthday party that you dressed yourself. I find it equally strange that there are almost no screenshots on the website, outside of the docs…

Are they the ones with a weird complex, or are you? Your post suggests that you feel like GIMP has something to prove much more than the four word throwaway line you're criticizing to me.

This is literally ht e opposite of what I was saying. I am not a fan of Gimp but nor am I an anti-fan, it seems very capable if that's what you like. My point is that the website does a very poor job of selling the tool to potential users.

Re: GIMP Turns 27

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Post by wellanyway »

inktype wrote: post #221

In a past life, I grokked the gimp. I joined IRC to humbly propose a feature. "Why would anyone want that?" Not copying anything useful from Photoshop was a point of pride. Congratulations on 27 years of existence. Congratulations on regular GSoC acceptance since 2006.

> Not copying anything useful from Photoshop was a point of pride. Exactly. GIMP didn't have any actual improvements to offer, but they went out of their way to NOT make a PS clone, out of sheer pettiness and ego. Like, magic wand tool is called fuzzy selection or something? Why? Why introduce a point of possible confusion for no reason whatsoever?
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