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Re: GIMP 3.0 is on the way

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Post by 0points »

joaomacp wrote: post #22

I use Gimp from time to time, and often get frustrated with its... unique UI. It's nice to see they're hearing feedback and working on it :D A tip for others that feel the same: if you've used Photoshop before and are used to its UI, try the free Photopea website. It's a Photoshop "clone" that works really well in web (I believe it's a solo dev doing it too). It's replaced Gimp for me lately.

I would recommend Krita instead of a website.

Websites are not automatically free or opensource, they also require internet access and can sneakily copy the files you are working with.

If photopea is free today, it may cost money tomorrow.

Krita exists for Windows and macOS too nowadays.

https://krita.org/en/

Re: GIMP 3.0 is on the way

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Post by cameronh90 »

pessimizer wrote: post #40
rkharsan64 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does this change include any UX improvements? The article only mentions updated visuals and theming. From the discussions I've read, it's the UX of GIMP that holds it back.

It's just Photoshop addicts needing the UI to be identical to Photoshop because when they use GIMP their muscle memory is broken. To be fair, though, all industry professionals are forced to be Photoshop addicts. But Photoshop's UI is objectively awful; it's the 10,000 hours you spent in it that makes it seem sane. You could have learned Thai in 10,000 hours, too. The real weaknesses in GIMP have been in its lack of…

Photoshop's UX is poor, but everyone is used to it. GIMP's UX is even worse, and nobody is used to it. And based on those screenshots in the article, it has, if anything, got even weirder and less intuitive.

I'd probably try and power through if there was even close to feature parity, but it's only just now catching up with where Photoshop was in 1994.

Re: GIMP 3.0 is on the way

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Post by martin_a »

glimshe wrote: post #37
martin_a wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Naaah... For better or worse we're all set up with our Adobe Creative Clouds...

The Affinity suite - now for $80 due to Black Friday - is a viable competitor to Photoshop for many applications. It's much better than Gimp.

That's true, I got one myself, but as everybody is educated and trained on Adobe products switching is not that easy.

Re: GIMP 3.0 is on the way

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Post by sam_lowry_ »

joaomacp wrote: post #22

I use Gimp from time to time, and often get frustrated with its... unique UI. It's nice to see they're hearing feedback and working on it :D A tip for others that feel the same: if you've used Photoshop before and are used to its UI, try the free Photopea website. It's a Photoshop "clone" that works really well in web (I believe it's a solo dev doing it too). It's replaced Gimp for me lately.

> frustrated with its... unique UI

It's a matter of habits. For me, Gimp is the primary image editing tool and all others feel alien.

Re: GIMP 3.0 is on the way

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Post by Sloowms »

joaomacp wrote: post #22

I use Gimp from time to time, and often get frustrated with its... unique UI. It's nice to see they're hearing feedback and working on it :D A tip for others that feel the same: if you've used Photoshop before and are used to its UI, try the free Photopea website. It's a Photoshop "clone" that works really well in web (I believe it's a solo dev doing it too). It's replaced Gimp for me lately.

I don't use any photo editing tool but I know there is photogimp which makes gimp look like photoshop.

Re: GIMP 3.0 is on the way

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Post by porridgeraisin »

0points wrote: post #51
joaomacp wrote: post #22

I use Gimp from time to time, and often get frustrated with its... unique UI. It's nice to see they're hearing feedback and working on it :D A tip for others that feel the same: if you've used Photoshop before and are used to its UI, try the free Photopea website. It's a Photoshop "clone" that works really well in web (I believe it's a solo dev doing it too). It's replaced Gimp for me lately.

I would recommend Krita instead of a website. Websites are not automatically free or opensource, they also require internet access and can sneakily copy the files you are working with. If photopea is free today, it may cost money tomorrow. Krita exists for Windows and macOS too nowadays. https://krita.org/en/

> require internet access It's a PWA and works offline perfectly.

Re: GIMP 3.0 is on the way

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Post by teleforce »

soulofmischief wrote: post #15

I started using GIMP around 2003 as a small child, and I remember being hyped for 3.0 and non-destructive editing even back then. I'm in my thirties now. Slow and steady wins the race. Congrats to the GIMP team, can't imagine the catharsis they will experience when 3.0 officially drops.

> Congrats to the GIMP team, can't imagine the catharsis they will experience when 3.0 officially drops.

Thanks for the catharsis word, I have to look it up for the meaning.

20 years or equivalent to 5 times Olympics games, is a very long time to develop and improve a software. It's now comparable to the real-time Linux kernel, another open-source software albeit it's a kernel not a user application [1].

Any other open-source software that has a comparable development time that I'm not aware of? But as the old adage says it is better to be a tortoise than a hare, as long you're winning the game.

[1] 20 years later, real-time Linux makes it to the kernel:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41584907

[2] The Tortoise and the Hare:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare

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