> but I have a feeling that Gimp is getting more and more unintuitive nowadays (if it ever was intuitive). I want to love Gimp, its interface and window layout

> but I have a feeling that Gimp is getting more and more unintuitive nowadays (if it ever was intuitive). I want to love Gimp, its interface and window layout is aesthetically pleasing to me for a pro-level graphics program. But as a non-pro, I have to google how to do even simple stuff b/c it's not discoverable or obvious from the interface. Just the other day I had to google how to draw a circle around something in a digital photo, which is about the simplest operation you could want to do. You can't just circle something with the lasso/elliptical select tool, there's more to it. I can't fault Gimp too hard, though, it's aiming for pro's and power users, which I'm not. Frequent Gimp users will quickly learn Gimp's ways of doing simple things, and then move on to the harder stuff.