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No. Gimp recently - or by now some time ago - defined their target group and work with a HCI-expert to get the software in shape for them. The target users are

by onli 14y ago

No. Gimp recently - or by now some time ago - defined their target group and work with a HCI-expert to get the software in shape for them. The target users are pretty much professional users (or "for intense use", like they put it), see http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/User_Scenarios http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/User_Scenarios and http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Vision_briefing http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Vision_briefing. Casual users are no longer the target.

bwanab 14y ago
Target or not, that's what I am and I've been using Gimp for all my photo work for over 10 years.
coffeeaddicted 14y ago
Thanks, I had not heard about that before. Although a little sad, as I know a lot of casual users using it right now (even including some young kids). But I guess at least the "Creating Original Art" can be seen as targeting people like game developers.
- bitwize 14y ago
  Casual users (including kids) have been creating art with Photoshop for some time now. At any rate, there are multiple free software packages that can do the "creating art" job at least as acceptably as GIMP. Consider MyPaint or Krita.
  - wollw 14y ago
    MyPaint and Krita are actually both great programs for digital painting. David Revoy is an artist who uses both (and also created one of the brush sets for MyPaint) and his work is worth looking at: http://www.davidrevoy.com/2-portfolio.html http://www.davidrevoy.com/2-portfolio.html He has a number of tutorials available on his site too: http://www.davidrevoy.com/4-tutorials.html http://www.davidrevoy.com/4-tutorials.html I believe he also uses Gimp with the Gimp Paint Studio presets for some things: http://code.google.com/p/gps-gimp-paint-studio/ http://code.google.com/p/gps-gimp-paint-studio/
dirkk0 14y ago
This might be true, but my daughter (13) uses Gimp to draw. But then again, she might be an expert because she is recording a 'Lets draw Mangas' thread on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhMwfWFG5GI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhMwfWFG5GI
- onli 14y ago
  She might very well be. Using Gimp for content creation for some time could make her an expert (especially a fast learning and seemingly quite intelligent kid). Though painting itself isn't the main usecase gimp seems to want to support. Though like so often: Only because a software wants to support a specific target doesn't mean it will be completely unusable for doing everything else.
- wazoox 14y ago
  Funny, my daughter's 13 too and constantly drawing manga characters with Gimp (http://julieflorac78.deviantart.com/gallery/ http://julieflorac78.deviantart.com/gallery/). I've just bought her a wacom tablet, that's much easier.
  - dirkk0 14y ago
    funny^2 - she just got a wacom tablet for christmas :-). did you get the wheel to work with gimp?
    - wazoox 14y ago
      No, but AFAIK it doesn't work yet with Linux. The other buttons work out of the box, though.
      - dirkk0 14y ago
        Ah ok - she is on win7. doesn't work either, though.
- aw3c2 14y ago
  let her try mypaint! it is made for drawing and rocks.

by onli 14y ago

bwanab 14y ago

Target or not, that's what I am and I've been using Gimp for all my photo work for over 10 years.

coffeeaddicted 14y ago

Thanks, I had not heard about that before. Although a little sad, as I know a lot of casual users using it right now (even including some young kids). But I guess at least the "Creating Original Art" can be seen as targeting people like game developers.

bitwize 14y ago
Casual users (including kids) have been creating art with Photoshop for some time now. At any rate, there are multiple free software packages that can do the "creating art" job at least as acceptably as GIMP. Consider MyPaint or Krita.
- wollw 14y ago
  MyPaint and Krita are actually both great programs for digital painting. David Revoy is an artist who uses both (and also created one of the brush sets for MyPaint) and his work is worth looking at: http://www.davidrevoy.com/2-portfolio.html http://www.davidrevoy.com/2-portfolio.html He has a number of tutorials available on his site too: http://www.davidrevoy.com/4-tutorials.html http://www.davidrevoy.com/4-tutorials.html I believe he also uses Gimp with the Gimp Paint Studio presets for some things: http://code.google.com/p/gps-gimp-paint-studio/ http://code.google.com/p/gps-gimp-paint-studio/

dirkk0 14y ago

This might be true, but my daughter (13) uses Gimp to draw. But then again, she might be an expert because she is recording a 'Lets draw Mangas' thread on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhMwfWFG5GI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhMwfWFG5GI

onli 14y ago
She might very well be. Using Gimp for content creation for some time could make her an expert (especially a fast learning and seemingly quite intelligent kid). Though painting itself isn't the main usecase gimp seems to want to support. Though like so often: Only because a software wants to support a specific target doesn't mean it will be completely unusable for doing everything else.
wazoox 14y ago
Funny, my daughter's 13 too and constantly drawing manga characters with Gimp (http://julieflorac78.deviantart.com/gallery/ http://julieflorac78.deviantart.com/gallery/). I've just bought her a wacom tablet, that's much easier.
- dirkk0 14y ago
  funny^2 - she just got a wacom tablet for christmas :-). did you get the wheel to work with gimp?
  - wazoox 14y ago
    No, but AFAIK it doesn't work yet with Linux. The other buttons work out of the box, though.
    - dirkk0 14y ago
      Ah ok - she is on win7. doesn't work either, though.
aw3c2 14y ago
let her try mypaint! it is made for drawing and rocks.