Is it a "loss" if your users have to sign in to use your product, to get monetized indirectly?
Canva’s affinity strategy: Normies over power users
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Re: Canva’s affinity strategy: Normies over power users
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GIMP has been in development since 1996, and still can't handle basic features like CMYK; meaning any attempt to reproduce colors on a professional printer is doomed. We're not even talking Pantone yet.
People whined about CMYK until it became irrelevant (print died). I'd argue that GIMP was forward-looking by being digital-first. The reality is all those GIMP haters can either get over it or enjoy paying increasingly high subscription fees for their increasingly enshittified creative suite subscription.
Well it has non-destructive editing finally this year, for all the claims that it was powerful that I had heard through the years, without it the Gimp was a wimp
I may have to give it a go, is drawing a rectangle still a transformation done on a rectangular selection?
Re: Canva’s affinity strategy: Normies over power users
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i honestly don't care if someone gets scared away by too many buttons. might be better for them since GIMP contains a lot more confusing buttons. photo-editing software will never be mainstream. I expect a person that works with media to be capable of picking the right download.
Photo-editing software is mainstream, except it's done by non-professionsls on phones.
Or the phone just does "good enough" processing on its own without the user having to do anything else.
I personally use Lightroom and have Photoshop as part of the same subscription but rarely use it. (And Lightroom can do most of what I need without a lot of intervention other than some cropping on my part.)
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IMO FOSS "lost the plot" when we accepted the false argument that source code sharing was purely an engineering issue rather than an ethics issue.
Re: Canva’s affinity strategy: Normies over power users
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
GIMP has been in development since 1996, and still can't handle basic features like CMYK; meaning any attempt to reproduce colors on a professional printer is doomed. We're not even talking Pantone yet.
People whined about CMYK until it became irrelevant (print died). I'd argue that GIMP was forward-looking by being digital-first. The reality is all those GIMP haters can either get over it or enjoy paying increasingly high subscription fees for their increasingly enshittified creative suite subscription.
So because I need professional print features, I’m a GIMP hater?
It’s fine if you don’t want GIMP to change to meet the needs of a different group (after all these years I suppose the GIMP team agrees). But to people who want to be paid for their product, this is valuable feedback.
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I'm not a FOSS advocate, but I think that's a bit strong. I think it's more a case that they recognized the need for a good user experience, but that never hit a threshold which would move the needle for change to happen with the most popular FOSS. Darktable is probably one of the exceptions here.
I really like Darktable, and it's my go to photo editor, but the user interface really isn't intuitive on first look compared to something like Lightroom. The design choice that editing modules should be ordered by their place in the pixel pipeline is logical and sometimes useful, but it ends up with a lot of the controls being in rather weird places. The customisable quick controls palette would help, if it weren't that simple things like cropping can't be added to it (at least, last time I investigated this - perhaps it's changed now?)
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Re: Canva’s affinity strategy: Normies over power users
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Atleast for the photo/image editing part, GIMP is FOSS and, while it definitely has a learning curve compared to some other software, does a pretty reasonable job
GIMP is a perfect example of how the plot has been lost. Go to the download page: https://www.gimp.org/downloads/ - A mac user has FOUR equal priority download buttons to decide between, depending on chips and whether you want direct or torrent downloads. That is an absurd decision to put in front of 99% of computer users. For power users, no problem. But if the objective was ever to be mainstream, this is among the…
Sounds like an apple issue, there's only three for windows, one being the MS store and most people are used to the idea of app stores thanks to phones.
(I agree it's probably best to deemphasise the bittorrent button though)
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Not FOSS, the OSS community. Very different breed.
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It's almost always the case with the old-school gnu mindset, aka gimp. There are exceptions though, like blender and gnome.