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Not sure why you're being downvoted. This is a legitimate question. Although my sibling comment might offer an explanation to your downvotes. Edit: HN's real

Not sure why you're being downvoted. This is a legitimate question. Although my sibling comment might offer an explanation to your downvotes. Edit: HN's really gone downhill. I thought we didn't downvote with feelings around here? All I did was point out that it's a legitimate question for people who don't have much experience with Photoshop, GIMP, etc.

folkhack 7y ago
People downvote when they disagree - plain and simple. If you're suggesting GIMP and Inkscape to someone coming from a pro-level career/background it shows complete ignorance on the topic. Lots of the time I see this sort of brazen opensource can replace anything/everything attitude - it's simply not true + very idealist. It's likely a ton of pros who use graphics software are coming through and expressing similar thoughts through the downvote button... which in some ways is a "don't take this seriously" button. Anywho - I agree that the parent comment shouldn't be downvoted, it's a legitimate question to ask if you have no experience in graphics.
asark 7y ago
They're miserable to use. Sincerely, Person who has spent ~2-3x as much time in The Gimp as in Photoshop, and first learned image editing on Paint Shop Pro, not Photoshop, but would still choose PS if you told me to edit some images and my life depended on it, especially if I also couldn't use Google to look up how to do basic freakin' things.
- stOneskull 7y ago
  i haven't thought about paint shop pro for a long time. fond memories. i might try and run that in wine.
wmil 7y ago
Inkscape just released their 1.0alpha. You can argue about naming conventions all you want but here's the reality. It is just not a mature professional product in the same category as Illustrator. Similarly GIMP has a lot of oddities that Adobe would have found unacceptable in Photoshop versions released 25 years ago. You can do real work in GIMP, but the polish just isn't there.

folkhack 7y ago

People downvote when they disagree - plain and simple. If you're suggesting GIMP and Inkscape to someone coming from a pro-level career/background it shows complete ignorance on the topic. Lots of the time I see this sort of brazen opensource can replace anything/everything attitude - it's simply not true + very idealist. It's likely a ton of pros who use graphics software are coming through and expressing similar thoughts through the downvote button... which in some ways is a "don't take this seriously" button. Anywho - I agree that the parent comment shouldn't be downvoted, it's a legitimate question to ask if you have no experience in graphics.

asark 7y ago

They're miserable to use. Sincerely, Person who has spent ~2-3x as much time in The Gimp as in Photoshop, and first learned image editing on Paint Shop Pro, not Photoshop, but would still choose PS if you told me to edit some images and my life depended on it, especially if I also couldn't use Google to look up how to do basic freakin' things.

stOneskull 7y ago
i haven't thought about paint shop pro for a long time. fond memories. i might try and run that in wine.

wmil 7y ago

Inkscape just released their 1.0alpha. You can argue about naming conventions all you want but here's the reality. It is just not a mature professional product in the same category as Illustrator. Similarly GIMP has a lot of oddities that Adobe would have found unacceptable in Photoshop versions released 25 years ago. You can do real work in GIMP, but the polish just isn't there.