GIMP is great but it definitely needs its own Blender 3.0 moment where they just completely overhaul the UI.

I've used it as my primary raster app so I'm way used to it now, but I totally understand the people who just never even bother to learn it because they are so turned off by the absolutely bonkers design decisions.

Whilst Gimp is technically powerful, you can really tell it's made by programmers. I cannot stand the UI and shortcut defaults, but maybe I'm damaged from having used Photoshop a couple times.

Man... I probably would be able to crack String theory before I'd be able to learn Gimp

Sometime in the 90s:

"What are we gonna call it?"

"GNU Image Manipulation Program/GIMP. Huehuehuehue. trollface

"Yeah sure, whatever, it's not like millions are going to end up using this thing."

I prefer Krita

make_meme_with_imagemagick.sh --text "How CLI memers look at GUI memers" --template twilight-snobs | upload_meme_to_lemmy.sh

Lots of people who wanted to have photoshop for free salty about the menu layout being different in GIMP.

The gimp's sleeping ...

The ONE program I miss from Windows is paint․net.

With recent Affinity acquisition by Canva, I wish more and more people try GIMP. But GIMP developer should match their UI layout to industry standard.

People from Photoshop, Affinity Photo, CSP, and other tools are confused with non vertical tool box.

I recommend Lazpaint if you want something that's significantly faster and lighter, though not as feature rich and nothing like Photoshop, interface wise.

Every goddamn time I try to use GIMP I end up making a series of stupid minor errors because it uses non-standard keybosrd shortcuts (why is the default DESELECT hotkey not CTRL+D like in every other program with selection tools) or some other esoteric decision of hiding something in 3 menus or calling a tool by a different name to everyone else, then end up re-pirating Photoshop, not needing either for a while, deleting Photoshop cuz "well I'll learn GIMP eventually", repeat

Always found a bit weird the way gimp saves images. "Export" makes sense somehow but still feels weird, like if it didn't want to hear about the thing you've created anymore ever.

Gimp 3 is around the corner

I haven't used Photoshop; learned basic photo editing in GIMP (as a poor student, I appreciated a powerful, free editor). So, no complaints about the UI from me. If anything, I'd probably bitch about the Photoshop UI if I ever used it.

One thing that concerns me a little, however, is the third-party integration with Nik Collection. The second version, which I'm still using, was provided for free by Google. They later sold the software, and the new company commercialized it. I found it difficult to track down the v2 installer, so I'm now keeping it on multiple backups, in multiple locations, as one of my most treasured software possessions.