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GIMP only always remembers me how much I miss Paint.Net on my Mac. Just last week I had to do some image manipulation. Since pretty much all Paint derivatives f

• danieldk 9y ago
  On the Mac there is not particularly a shortage of good photo/image editors, from affordable to expensive. Acorn, Pixelmator, Affinity Photo, Photoshop.
  • Jdam 9y ago
    I’m not a professional and don’t want to learn Photoshop for ages. Also, oftentimes very basic ones are not sufficient, like most cheap ones from the AppStore. I haven’t found a proper substitute for this niche between super basic ones and Photoshop.
    • cweagans 9y ago
      Pixelmator is what you want. Seriously. It's really good.
      • h1d 9y ago
        It's even one of the most sold apps in the app store. Can't miss to find it.
• cptskippy 9y ago
  That's the one thing that has always bothered me about GIMP and I honestly don't find Photoshop to be all that much better. I had access to Corel Photopaint and Adobe Photoshop a decade ago and always preferred Corel over Adobe, the UI just seemed more intuitive. Then when Photoshop began to dominate, Corel transformed Photopaint into a me-too copy of Photoshop. I have Photoshop on my work laptop and I use it mainly out of convenience but don't enjoy it. I have actually tried to get all assets as SVG and stay in Inkscape if at all possible. Inkscape's UI isn't the best either , I'm not quite sure why I prefer it to Photoshop but I do.
• tomc1985 9y ago
  UX clusterfuck? How? So it's the same UI it's had for years. Just because it isn't modern and pretty doesn't mean it's a clusterfuck. I personally find Gimp easier to get started with than Photoshop, for one...
  • pmontra 9y ago
    If the benchmark is Paint maybe he means that GIMP is too complex for what he needs, so the UI is inevitably too complicated. Pinta [1] is a simpler alternative to GIMP on Ubuntu. I never used it (and where is the source code?) but it looks similar to how I remember MS Paint. GP was asking about Macs, sorry I don't know anything about them. [1] https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/ https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/
    • ZenoArrow 9y ago
      MS Paint and Paint.NET aren't the same app. Paint.NET is a mid-level image editing program, somewhere between MS Paint and Photoshop in features. https://www.getpaint.net/ https://www.getpaint.net/
  • Joeboy 9y ago
    > it's the same UI it's had for years. There have actually been some major improvements, notably single window mode. I believe they recently fixed the thing where the Tab key (Show / Hide Docks) does something unexpected if the last thing you clicked was a toolbox icon. These days it seems like the Gimp devs are a bit more tolerant of user feedback, which is one of the reasons I'll be making a small donation. > Just because it isn't modern and pretty The problem is not that it isn't modern and pretty. The problems, at least for me, are stupid blockages that Gimp tends to put in the way of getting things done, eg. the layer boundaries thing, or the fact the font box keeps the focus after you've selected a font. If you need to work efficiently these things quickly add up to major annoyance.
  • rocqua 9y ago
    I personally can't use GIMP for shit, but that is because I am used to photoshop. In any case, the value of UX isn't just about how well experienced users can use it, it's also about how well new users can learn. Blaming a tool for skewing to far towards the experienced users is a valid form of criticism. Moreover, it is easy to have the skew without noticing. After all, developers likely move in circles with many more experienced users. There is also the potential blowback from experienced users to any kind of change.
• mappu 9y ago
  Pinta is the FOSS version of Paint.NET, and it has a Mac version. https://pinta-project.com/ https://pinta-project.com/