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I'm relatively a power user and can mostly work my way through most any software and regularly help people with software I've never used before, but I just can'

I'm relatively a power user and can mostly work my way through most any software and regularly help people with software I've never used before, but I just can't wrap my head around Gimp for some reason, everything seems way too complicated. When I Google the solution to something I can do in 3 minutes in Paint.NET, it often turns out to require lots of unintuitive steps, I hit edge cases, look up bug reports and feature requests and then just decide to use Pinta instead. And other people seem to work fine with it, so it must be that people are just wired differntly or something.

AsyncAwait 7y ago
Counterpoint; I suck at Photoshop, but for some reason Gimp has resonated with me and I reach for it over PS even if PS is technically more capable.
- Valgrim 7y ago
  Gimp is also technically very capable, especially when combined with G'mic plugins. I've used both software for different projects and I think I could switch permanently to Gimp if it could get better in two ways: - Non-destructive filters, AKA "layer effects" or "smart filters" (I've read it's supposed do come in some distant future when the GEGL overhaul is finished). A node-based nondestructive filter system would be awesome - Smarter selection tools. Current tools create little to no gradient in the mask they create, and it's a pain to refine a selection after creating it. Sure there are workarounds, but it feels repetitive and inefficient. Sure the interface is a bit all over the place but it's not so bad, and it's free!
- shawnz 7y ago
  Same here - Photoshop is full of confusing idioms that make it hard for me to get things done, whereas I find Gimp is simple and straightforward. I suspect a lot of people who think Gimp is hard to use haven't used it in the last 5-10 years (it's been improved significantly in that time).

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I'm relatively a power user and can mostly work my way through most any software and regularly help people with software I've never used before, but I just can'

by bonoboTP 7y ago

AsyncAwait 7y ago
Counterpoint; I suck at Photoshop, but for some reason Gimp has resonated with me and I reach for it over PS even if PS is technically more capable.
- Valgrim 7y ago
  Gimp is also technically very capable, especially when combined with G'mic plugins. I've used both software for different projects and I think I could switch permanently to Gimp if it could get better in two ways: - Non-destructive filters, AKA "layer effects" or "smart filters" (I've read it's supposed do come in some distant future when the GEGL overhaul is finished). A node-based nondestructive filter system would be awesome - Smarter selection tools. Current tools create little to no gradient in the mask they create, and it's a pain to refine a selection after creating it. Sure there are workarounds, but it feels repetitive and inefficient. Sure the interface is a bit all over the place but it's not so bad, and it's free!
- shawnz 7y ago
  Same here - Photoshop is full of confusing idioms that make it hard for me to get things done, whereas I find Gimp is simple and straightforward. I suspect a lot of people who think Gimp is hard to use haven't used it in the last 5-10 years (it's been improved significantly in that time).