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    [–] ian@feddit.uk 15 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Gimp isn't perfect. But neither is Photoshop. In fact Lightroom users grizzle that Photoshop is so much harder to use than Lightroom. It's a different animal.

    I use Pinta or Paint.Net when I want a quick edit. But Gimp has the tools for serious editing. More tools, more hard to use.

    Some Gimp things, yes! should be improved. And other things are being improved as we speak. And some things can be done on a photo much easier in Inkscape.

    I hope the whiners donated to Gimp development? No? Then just please step back, and think for a bit. If thinking is too hard, then just take a deep breath.

    [–] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    Donating to GIMP will not likely make it user-friendly enough to make me use it unless absolutely forced to. I would much rather donate to Pinta or Paint.NET or something where development would actually benefit me.

    [–] ian@feddit.uk 2 points 6 months ago

    Yes. Pinta and Paint.net are often the best solution for lots of tasks. They will need help too.

    GIMP has come from nothing just on donations. As I can get results as good as PS very quickly, that is quite a feat. And soon v3 will be out with more goodies.

    [–] Dkarma@lemmy.world -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    This is always funny to me. I used it just fine for developing all the graphics for literally 5 mobile games on nothing but gimp

    [–] lemmynparty@lemmings.world 10 points 6 months ago

    Congratulations! I literally used gimp to draw at least 20 smiley faces so I have no idea what people are complaining about.

    [–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Coming from Paint.NET, I first tried Photoshop and I felt its controls to be non-intuitive, so I reverted to Paint.NET.
    Later, I started using GIMP and coming from someone with no experience in either of them, GIMP and Photoshop are equally non-intuitive, so whenever someone complaining about GIMP, feels like they are coming from Photoshop, I just discount their rating.

    Inkscape is a vector graphics editor, which is different from GIMP.

    [–] ian@feddit.uk 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Some were complaining GIMPs text and shapes were hard to use. I put text on images in Inkscape. Inkscape is ideal for that, having all the tools to use on top of a pasted image.

    [–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 0 points 6 months ago

    Right.
    I feel like the text part is something GIMP should actually make an overlapping feature. That and basic shapes, which would make it much more useful for basic stuff.

    But then, I'm neither a GIMP dev nor a heavy user and I have no idea of their target audience.

    If you are making memes, Inkscape is what you are using most of the times. Though the lack of 2 click and 1 drag cropping, makes me feel a bit frustrated (still, you can crop).

    [–] almostmedieval@feddit.de 1 points 6 months ago

    Thanks. Pinta looks promising. I was searching an alternative for gimp on linux, just for a quick edit.