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Kid: "I want Photoshop!" Dad: "We already have a Photoshop at home!" Photoshop at home: GIMP And what a great name for this program. We're always looking to r
by coolhand2120 6y ago
Kid: "I want Photoshop!"
Dad: "We already have a Photoshop at home!"
Photoshop at home: GIMP
And what a great name for this program.
We're always looking to replace Photoshop with a non subscription program, and I've tried to use GIMP many times. Every time I remind myself that GIMP is a worthless heap of garbage. For a FOSS program to have such design problems for as long as it has shows that the people in charge of the project are overly opinionated about how THEY think a Photoshop clone should be.
GIMP can only be a Photoshop clone. To the extent it is like Photoshop it wins. It is however nothing like Photoshop. They go far out of their way to make it not like Photoshop. Even when every other ANYTHING editing program UX uses the same behaviors, GIMP manages to invent some new totally stupid UX. And I do not use the S word there lightly. It's almost as if they had a meeting to determine what the worst UX was and picked that one.
GIMP is an example of how FOSS can fail and be worse than useless to the rest of the open source community. We would likely have some sort of FOSS Photoshop clone if GIMP wasn't there. If there was a worldwide vote to end a single FOSS project, I suspect GIMP would be in the top 5 list.
- arendtio 6y agoRespectfully, I have to disagree. Yes, the modern Photoshop is miles away from GIMP, but there was a time when the gap wasn't so large. Given how much money was poured into the development of Photoshop, that should wonder nobody. Developing a software for 25 years is in itself an achievement. As a user I think it developed quite nicely and added cool features every now and then. Calling GIMP 'a worthless heap of garbage' is neither polite nor warranted.
- prokoudine 6y ago> They go far out of their way to make it not like Photoshop. That is some serious analytical thinking on your part. Congrats! :D