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Man, that's a rough entry point. I've been waiting for GIMP to get good for decades, and I've accepted now it's probably not gonna happen.
You're such a disappointment, GIMP. Blender is right there, why can't you be more like Blender?
Hah. Yeah, I guess it sucks having learned Photoshop before it was an outright scam, because there is no good alternative.
Let me caveat that: there's actually great art software that's either cheap or free and there are many basic quick photo editing apps. But broad image manipulation and in-depth photo editing? It's GIMP or nothing, and GIMP is definitely not it.
Not a graphic designer either, so I also use it for, say scanning documents and stuff like that. But I'll be honest, if it takes more than that I'll often just load into some mobile app meant for the edit I need to make just to avoid GIMP's backwards UI.
Yep. You either get the features but not the depth in mobile apps or the depth but not the features on GIMP.
It genuinely sucks. Because it's not that the technology is proprietary at Adobe and can't be replicated. Like I said, Blender holds up to the best of commercial software and it's just as free. It's that the GIMP guys haven't quite found their way to that qualitative jump Blender took.
Note that for vector graphics editing, Inkscape is really good. That doesn't help you if you need to edit photos, though.
Yeah, it's just that specific hole in the landscape where GIMP has become the default and nobody else is doing better despite being the part of the ecosystem that Adobe holds with the tightest grip. It's extremely annoying.
Yes, I've tried Krita. Krita is great. Go Krita. Krita is a painting program, though, not a full Photoshop replacement.
As, you know, we said in the post right above this one.
That was a different person
If you're still looking, try Krita, it's a polished and powerful open source image manipulation program.
I've tried Krita, but it's primarily a painting tool, not really a Photoshop alternative for other tasks. It's very solid for what it's meant to do, though.
Makes sense. I never used Photoshop, so I don't know how it compares. It's been good enough for my needs so far.