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In my high school photography class ~12 years ago, everyone was using Photoshop. But I used GIMP instead. I remember everyone being so impressed - wow, there's

In my high school photography class ~12 years ago, everyone was using Photoshop. But I used GIMP instead. I remember everyone being so impressed - wow, there's this free tool that does pretty much everything Photoshop does? But I feel like the software has barely changed since then. Photoshop has HEAPS of new features, and it's faster. And of course I don't expect GIMP to keep up with that. But even the basics, it feels just super slow and clunky. I wonder if they fully take advantage of the GPU? Also yeah, as people have already mentioned, sometimes the UX is a bit confusing. Every time I use the alignment tool, I have to Google how to use it again. A lot of the tools are like that. Has development slowed down over the past few years? I'm curious. Is there a lack of contributors? Or is the port to Gtk3 so overwhelmingly that it has taken up all their time/effort?

soared 5y ago
>The issue is that Gimp lost its primary contributor a few years ago (don't know why, he just disappeared), and nobody has really stepped up since. >Like, that guy was the only one working on the gtk3 port. The gtk3 port is right now basically in the same state it was in 2018 or 2019, whenever that contributor left. >So, the reason gimp is bad is mostly because very few people work on gimp, and it's a big software. https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/u5m7xo/why_is_gimp_still_so_bad/i54fjjq/ https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/u5m7xo/why_is_gimp_s...
nullc 5y ago
> But I feel like the software has barely changed since then. Really? High bit depth images are a big change! There have been lots of other improvements too.