> We really need an open source alternative to Photoshop. I just don’t know if gimp will ever be it. I guess it depends on what you need it for. As someone who

> We really need an open source alternative to Photoshop. I just don’t know if gimp will ever be it. I guess it depends on what you need it for. As someone who's a software developer and occasionally dabbles in video game development or some very basic design, GIMP is perfectly suitable for what I need. I actually haven't used Photoshop in years and don't really feel like anything at all is missing for my use cases. Things like sometimes creating images for my blog posts, or favicons for my sites. Or touching up photos or removing some details, or maybe creating some textures for a video game/visualization. GIMP is just there and works well enough. For even more basic (or batch) processing, I'd also recommend XnView: https://www.xnview.com/en/ https://www.xnview.com/en/ or IrfanView: https://www.irfanview.com/ https://www.irfanview.com/ That said, the quality of FOSS software is all over the place: * since the UI/UX revamp, I'd say that Blender is one of the better and more high quality packages out there, what FOSS *should* be like * software like GIMP, LibreOffice and Kdenlive take a middle spot: fully functional, decent quality, good enough to be a daily driver * software like Inkscape and OpenShot are at the bottom of the barrel: only workable if there are no alternatives, bad performance and unstable, bad UI/UX and so on