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GIMP? I shudder when I think about GIMP

agumonkey 11y ago
I feel happier editing imaging through imagemagick rather than with GIMP.
dTal 11y ago
As someone who's never used Photoshop, I don't understand the GIMP hate. I use it all the time for a variety of imaging tasks, and it rarely surprises me - everything's discoverable, you don't need to memorise weird shortcuts, and the single-window mode in 2.8 removes the biggest pain point people were complaining about. The interface is also extensively configurable, with pretty much anything dockable into anything else (not that I use this feature much). Blender on the other hand...
- blt 11y ago
  Doubtlessly many GIMP haters, myself included, are frustrated because GIMP made many UI decisions that are incompatible with Photoshop without offering any compelling improvement. For example, zoom in PS is ctrl-minus and ctrl-equals, whereas in GIMP it is minus (no ctrl) and plus (aka shift-equals). This change is very annoying because zooming is one of the most common actions in photo editing and becomes part of your muscle memory. This design choice, and many others in keyboard shortcuts, menu layouts, etc. contribute to a feeling that GIMP tried to break compatibility with Photoshop on purpose for no reason. It feels like GIMP is actively hostile to Photoshop users. It also feels like the GIMP developers were very arrogant to think that following their design whims was more worthwhile than being compatible with a well-loved industry standard program. For serious photo editing, GIMP is completely useless because it lacks the Adjustment Layers feature that is critical for non-destructive editing, and it did not even support 16-bit color until a few months ago. GIMP is one of the huge failures in open-source software IMO. They should have just made a Photoshop clone.
  - anotheryou 11y ago
    my favorite is mirroring: mirror horizontally/vertically does tho opposite in PS and gimp. (mirroring over the said axis and mirroring said axis).
- agumonkey 11y ago
  Nothing makes sense for me in GIMP. Don't call me grumpy too fast, I used almost every computer graphics related programs and none gave me this level of frustration. Be it 80s dos painting programs, x11 image viewers, windows node based compositing, 3d animation packages, even illustrator (which has some odd ui abstractions sometimes). I thought blender changed dramatically in term of UI / ergonomy. I used to say that blender is the GIMP of 3D. But I came with a strong Maya/Houdini superiority complex.
- jordache 11y ago
  GIMP needs to stop making itself unique from Photoshop and try to emulate it as much as possible. There are way more photoshop users in the world than fresh users going into GIMP.

I feel happier editing imaging through imagemagick rather than with GIMP.

dTal 11y ago

As someone who's never used Photoshop, I don't understand the GIMP hate. I use it all the time for a variety of imaging tasks, and it rarely surprises me - everything's discoverable, you don't need to memorise weird shortcuts, and the single-window mode in 2.8 removes the biggest pain point people were complaining about. The interface is also extensively configurable, with pretty much anything dockable into anything else (not that I use this feature much). Blender on the other hand...

blt 11y ago
Doubtlessly many GIMP haters, myself included, are frustrated because GIMP made many UI decisions that are incompatible with Photoshop without offering any compelling improvement. For example, zoom in PS is ctrl-minus and ctrl-equals, whereas in GIMP it is minus (no ctrl) and plus (aka shift-equals). This change is very annoying because zooming is one of the most common actions in photo editing and becomes part of your muscle memory. This design choice, and many others in keyboard shortcuts, menu layouts, etc. contribute to a feeling that GIMP tried to break compatibility with Photoshop on purpose for no reason. It feels like GIMP is actively hostile to Photoshop users. It also feels like the GIMP developers were very arrogant to think that following their design whims was more worthwhile than being compatible with a well-loved industry standard program. For serious photo editing, GIMP is completely useless because it lacks the Adjustment Layers feature that is critical for non-destructive editing, and it did not even support 16-bit color until a few months ago. GIMP is one of the huge failures in open-source software IMO. They should have just made a Photoshop clone.
- anotheryou 11y ago
  my favorite is mirroring: mirror horizontally/vertically does tho opposite in PS and gimp. (mirroring over the said axis and mirroring said axis).
agumonkey 11y ago
Nothing makes sense for me in GIMP. Don't call me grumpy too fast, I used almost every computer graphics related programs and none gave me this level of frustration. Be it 80s dos painting programs, x11 image viewers, windows node based compositing, 3d animation packages, even illustrator (which has some odd ui abstractions sometimes). I thought blender changed dramatically in term of UI / ergonomy. I used to say that blender is the GIMP of 3D. But I came with a strong Maya/Houdini superiority complex.
jordache 11y ago
GIMP needs to stop making itself unique from Photoshop and try to emulate it as much as possible. There are way more photoshop users in the world than fresh users going into GIMP.