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Maybe someday the gIMP will be even close to Photoshop. Heck, maybe it is for some people's needs. But, I'm not even an artist and the gIMP doesn't come close to meeting my needs. "No decent OpenType typography, no layer styles, no smart objects, no dice." (from the comments on the OP) If all I need to do is crop or scale an image than sure, I might get by with gIMP though in that case I'd arguably get by better with…
I haven't tried it myself so can't vouch for it but GimpShop ( http://www.gimpshop.com/ ) fills a similar niche.
Krita may have a different aim on paper, but that just looks like a way to avoid conflict with the GIMP devs until it's clear to absolutely everyone that they've replaced it. One of the real shockers with the GIMP is how badly it plays with Ubuntu's Unity, where the menubar will get emptied whenever you change something in a non-image editor window.
Maybe someday the gIMP will be even close to Photoshop. Heck, maybe it is for some people's needs. But, I'm not even an artist and the gIMP doesn't come close to meeting my needs. "No decent OpenType typography, no layer styles, no smart objects, no dice." (from the comments on the OP) If all I need to do is crop or scale an image than sure, I might get by with gIMP though in that case I'd arguably get by better with…
> But, I actually use vector layers with layer styles ALL THE TIME. I actually use text layers with layer styles ALL THE TIME. I actually use non destructive adjustment layers ALL THE TIME. Just use Inkscape and call it a day?
Apart from that, Inkscape seems to be a good solution for pure vectorial work. But my non-techies friends hate the UI. It is not that it is different of Illustrator, they just found it ugly and unpractical.
My problems with GIMP were the CMYK stuff and a few terminology issues. I really love the GIMP interface, and I'm not the only person who finds the Photoshop interface awful.
I think that people just hate to have to learn anything new, and are willing to pay rents for the rest of their lives to fend that moment away where they might have to spend up to a week or more working in something that they're unfamiliar with. It's a bit like the fortune web developers pay to not have to figure out unix, or Apache.
Or like using a guitar tuner to tune each string separately. Maybe I'm just an angry guy:)
If you use Windows, consider Paint.NET ( http://www.getpaint.net ) instead of GIMP. It's much quicker (particularly the 4.0 beta builds) and has a much more Photoshop-like UI out of the box.
They do the vast majority of what most people need in a simple photo editor.
Maybe someday the gIMP will be even close to Photoshop. Heck, maybe it is for some people's needs. But, I'm not even an artist and the gIMP doesn't come close to meeting my needs. "No decent OpenType typography, no layer styles, no smart objects, no dice." (from the comments on the OP) If all I need to do is crop or scale an image than sure, I might get by with gIMP though in that case I'd arguably get by better with…
The new single-window mode helps a lot.
I haven't tried it myself so can't vouch for it but GimpShop ( http://www.gimpshop.com/ ) fills a similar niche.
This is like using Vim-mode to switch to Emacs, or installing Lindows. If people could accept the trivial conventions of the software you're moving to ("How can I use GIMP? The hotkeys are different!") and stop treating it like a free badly-executed Photoshop clone, they might realize that it's really nice to work in. My problems with GIMP were the CMYK stuff and a few terminology issues. I really love the GIMP inter…
