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After 15 years, I'm just used to it. Gimp was _usable_ before the same-window toggle (introduced about 2010?), but when they added that I stopped looking at co

by Andrex 5y ago

After 15 years, I'm just used to it. Gimp was _usable_ before the same-window toggle (introduced about 2010?), but when they added that I stopped looking at competitors tbh. I wish certain things in Gimp weren't so kludgy (mainly basic stuff like dropdowns and dialogs), but Photoshop isn't perfect underneath its slick-looking UI either. That said, I use and kinda adore Premiere, so I'm losing the Adobe "synergy" by not using Photoshop. I still can do everything I want or need to do in Gimp, and I admittedly don't do anything advanced. Paint.NET sufficed for a little while but Gimp hits that great middle ground for me personally between too-simple and too-powerful. Gimp moves so slowly that I personally can't wait for downstream forks like PhotoGIMP to pick up updates, so I've always tried to stick to the latest official stable release. I love reading new updates hit the front of HN, usually means a meaty release. :)

franga2000 5y ago
> That said, I use and kinda adore Premiere, so I'm losing the Adobe "synergy" by not using Photoshop. GIMP and Krita getting better is what finally got me to dump the abusive relationship I had with Premiere Pro. Seriously, it has to be the most unpleasant software I've ever used. Like, it's good in theory, but then the most basic things just...don't work?? Dynamic link is cute in theory, but in practice there isn't much of a productivity loss with 1-click exports in both GIMP and Krita. [I cut out like 2 paragraphs of Premiere rant here, but if anyone is curious I'm happy to paste it back. I'm glad if PrPro works for you, but I personally can't stand it anymore]
- Andrex 5y ago
  I would love to hear your problems with Premiere haha. Definitely agreed on the lack of usefulness for dynamic linking. The most I've put Premiere through its paces was a 23-minute short film. I learned a bit of After Effects for it, and that integration was nice. Not sure if Krita is aiming to replace AE as well, and I imagine that's a much tougher job than just creating a nonlinear editor. I have a lot more problems with AE than Premiere, much of it comes down to Gimp-style UI kludginess.

by Andrex 5y ago

franga2000 5y ago

> That said, I use and kinda adore Premiere, so I'm losing the Adobe "synergy" by not using Photoshop. GIMP and Krita getting better is what finally got me to dump the abusive relationship I had with Premiere Pro. Seriously, it has to be the most unpleasant software I've ever used. Like, it's good in theory, but then the most basic things just...don't work?? Dynamic link is cute in theory, but in practice there isn't much of a productivity loss with 1-click exports in both GIMP and Krita. [I cut out like 2 paragraphs of Premiere rant here, but if anyone is curious I'm happy to paste it back. I'm glad if PrPro works for you, but I personally can't stand it anymore]

Andrex 5y ago
I would love to hear your problems with Premiere haha. Definitely agreed on the lack of usefulness for dynamic linking. The most I've put Premiere through its paces was a 23-minute short film. I learned a bit of After Effects for it, and that integration was nice. Not sure if Krita is aiming to replace AE as well, and I imagine that's a much tougher job than just creating a nonlinear editor. I have a lot more problems with AE than Premiere, much of it comes down to Gimp-style UI kludginess.