> From what I understood about GIMPs development is that they have to purposefully make things "different" from photoshop so as to not get sued. I don't know h

> From what I understood about GIMPs development is that they have to purposefully make things "different" from photoshop so as to not get sued. I don't know how these rumours get started but that is simply not true. GIMP does some things differently and then it does some things the same (because it's just how this type of features work). And then some things were purposefully verbatim-copied from Photoshop (think Heal tool and Perspective Clone tool) because they looked like a good idea. Personally, I find it incredibly frustrating that this type of conversation always boils down to "If you are asking for explanation why copying Photoshop is good, then you are flat-out refusing to change UI and purposefully making things different".