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After all these years GIMP still sucks. They waste time on developing features of low importance, while critical ones are still not solved. Prime case: opening
by imaginenore 10y ago
After all these years GIMP still sucks. They waste time on developing features of low importance, while critical ones are still not solved.
Prime case: opening RAW files. The current suggested workflow is to use a 3rd party plugin UFRaw. Would you like to see the process of installing it on Windows?
http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/Install.html http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/Install.html
(Ctlr+F for "MS-Windows for geeks")
And then I see arrogant posts like that, claiming that GIMP is perfectly capable. It absolutely is not. GIMP will become popular when GIMP developers start thinking about the modern photographer's workflow. Till then people will keep pirating Photoshop.
- vidarh 10y agoWhat is critical to you is not to me, and vice versa. E.g. I have never in my life needed to work with RAW files. I have also never in my life needed to manipulate graphics on Windows. I understand that is frustrating, but this is one of the challenges of open source - the contributors can make choices without caring about attracting customers.
- pwinnski 10y agoWhich is absolutely their right--but then they don't get to post smug messages about how people are just too dumb to understand how great their project is. I see a lot of messages justifying why GIMP meets the needs of so very few, but none of that changes the fact that GIMP seems to meet the needs of very few.
- executesorder66 10y ago> GIMP will become popular when GIMP developers start thinking about the modern photographer's workflow. GIMP is for image editing. Not for photography. Use darktable if you want a FOSS application for a photography workflow. (it can open RAW files) Similarly Krita is for creating digital art. It's main goal is not to be an image editor.