At the same time, GIMP is remarkably not-geared at serious designers/non-codey folk. A simple fix would be to ask professionals using the Adobe suite what they

At the same time, GIMP is remarkably not-geared at serious designers/non-codey folk. A simple fix would be to ask professionals using the Adobe suite what they would like in an open source tool that could get them to switch. Viewed at from outside, Adobe may appear like a multi-billion dollar moat of focus on prosumer products. Viewer from as a user, Adobe's software has bugs and inefficiencies that would get the average open source product shredded in the comments. It is ludicrous that Adobe still charges for such bad Ux. Of the top of my head, I'd say GIMP could get a headstart on Adobe if its builders added: - n00b user Ux option - Single panel modes for color correction with all settings in the form of a list of sliders (like lightroom) - Seamless vector/PDF editing so you don't need to bounce between 3 different softwares - Good UI for an InDesign competitor (this is a moat that Canva could easily crush if it added a few more options - but it's still worth building). Automatic layout (would really only need to follow a few simple rules - don't overhang text, match formatting, worship whitespace so the user doesn't have to break everything to add it back in).