Wrong, the latest version of Gimp has major UI improvements. There are still some focus glitches and so on, but if you want to do serious image editing you eith

Wrong, the latest version of Gimp has major UI improvements. There are still some focus glitches and so on, but if you want to do serious image editing you either pay for Photoshop or use GIMP, it's that simple. Paint.net and the like are amateur tools, they're not even playing in the same category. Pixelmator has a nice UI but is still underfeatured and so is Acorn. Inkscape is a vector tool.