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I was somewhat of a power user of Photoshop which I pirated throughout my youth. When I grew too old for that sort of thing, it seems that my need for editing i

I was somewhat of a power user of Photoshop which I pirated throughout my youth. When I grew too old for that sort of thing, it seems that my need for editing images just kind of disappeared. I am not sure why, really. Every now and then, I need to edit some image though. I tried using Gimp a number of times but it always rubbed me the wrong way. Paint.net was fine on Windows though it felt a bit limited (at the time. I am sure it's great now). However, when I discovered https://www.photopea.com/ https://www.photopea.com/ I felt straight at home. It runs in the browser and it's free. Amazing! I still don't use it often but when I do, I love it.

Tagbert 5y ago
I wanted to like Gimp but could never get over the UI. I found Affinity Photo and that has been fantastic.
anonymousab 5y ago
> I tried using Gimp a number of times but it always rubbed me the wrong way Same here. For a while, I thought it was just my over-familiarity and reliance on Photoshop and mspaint. And to some extent, it certainly was, and is. But over time, I eventually tried out Affinity, Krita, Pixelmator, photopea, and a few others. And they just worked; the UI just felt "right". The icons, shortcuts and menu and window layouts made sense and were intuitive even for the tools I hadn't used before. So I've wrapped back around to thinking, nah, maybe GIMP's UX direction is just plain bad. Or bad for me, at least. It could be the case of some things having become a de facto standard that GIMP willfully eschews, but I have tried to go pure GIMP for long stretches and always walk away with a unique sense of pure frustration.
- touggourt 5y ago
  For a very long time there were not enough developers to deal with Gimp problems on macOS. Things have changed recently with Lukas Oberhuber who work on macOS's Gimp, and the upcoming Gimp 3.0 version is expected to have much better UI.

Tagbert 5y ago

I wanted to like Gimp but could never get over the UI. I found Affinity Photo and that has been fantastic.

anonymousab 5y ago

> I tried using Gimp a number of times but it always rubbed me the wrong way Same here. For a while, I thought it was just my over-familiarity and reliance on Photoshop and mspaint. And to some extent, it certainly was, and is. But over time, I eventually tried out Affinity, Krita, Pixelmator, photopea, and a few others. And they just worked; the UI just felt "right". The icons, shortcuts and menu and window layouts made sense and were intuitive even for the tools I hadn't used before. So I've wrapped back around to thinking, nah, maybe GIMP's UX direction is just plain bad. Or bad for me, at least. It could be the case of some things having become a de facto standard that GIMP willfully eschews, but I have tried to go pure GIMP for long stretches and always walk away with a unique sense of pure frustration.

touggourt 5y ago
For a very long time there were not enough developers to deal with Gimp problems on macOS. Things have changed recently with Lukas Oberhuber who work on macOS's Gimp, and the upcoming Gimp 3.0 version is expected to have much better UI.