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BroBot9000@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Fuck these guys, just use gimp.
I get where you’re coming from, but GIMP honestly just kinda sucks from a UX perspective nowadays. The core of the app seems to be fine, but it’s just not particularly intuitive to use compared to the commercial offerings.
Maybe that’ll change one day, but it really does feel like the interface has been the same for the past 15 years at least.
Are you sure intuitive or is it just “previously learned behaviour”?
I’ve used both Photoshop and GIMP, in fact I used GIMP first and that’s what I learned on. Then I tried Photoshop and it was immediately way more intuitive as to where things are and how the UI works, same with Affinity based on my little experience with it.
Older FOSS stuff tends to struggle quite a bit with UX, which makes sense cause it’s mostly programmers and not UI designers working on it.
Honest question. When you learned on GIMP. Was the palette, the tool options, and the drawing area all separate windows? Because the Photoshop UI and layout has been default for a long time now.
🏴☠️ Adobe over using this “free” trap and data mining scam.
Do you mean GIMP? Citation needed.
Oh for sure, I’m never paying Adobe anything. More just speaking on some frustration that GIMP seems to be sitting in the exact same location it has been for so long.
Or Krita
Why?
Okay.
SW42@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Tried using GIMP and Gimpshop (I don’t know if it’s still a thing) and never really got warm with it. Not for a lack of trying. I just use Affinity designer 2 and Photo 2 along with Inkscape (from which GIMP could learn a thing or two in terms of usability IMO).
Eldritch@piefed.world 5 months ago
The GIMP shop interface has been the default and iterated on for the better part of a decade, If not longer. This is what I always wonder about people who claim that GIMP is somehow less usable. Have they used it much since 3.0? It's 4.X now BTW.
I know my experience personally isn't going to be universal. I first used Photoshop version 2. First version I bought was 3.5. I remember downloading and compiling pre-1.0 unstable binaries of GIMP on Debian back in the 90s. It was wildly awkward back then and for the next couple of versions as someone coming from Photoshop. That hasn't been the case for a long, long time. Honestly, it reminds me so much of the Photoshop I grew up using at this point.
leftascenter@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 5 months ago
3.0.6 stable, 3.1.x beta. No 4.x.
And the bigger change was passing from 2.10 to 3.0 last March.
victorz@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Amazing to hear. Thanks for sharing your experience! I don’t edit images much at all but that’s warming to hear.