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This was posted to reddit a couple weeks back, and I'll repeat the same comment I made there. "I spend about 90% of my time in Lightroom and only 10% in Photos

• BashiBazouk 13y ago
  Worse, lightroom is an adobe application. I no longer use Photoshop because I use another Adobe tool more often... Makes the switch to GIMP kind of pointless. Not that I should talk, I hardly use Photoshop any more either, but that's because I live in Illustrator. My problem with open source graphic tools remains the same. I'm in the print world, either it supports Pantone or it's not that useful of a tool.
• jordigh 13y ago
  I hear this stuff all the time. So this is my own canned response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6675258 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6675258 > it has a ways to go before it will actually be a competitor. And it doesn't have a few features that I find incredibly invaluable as an Evernote user: [list of features snipped out] As an Octave developer, I frequently hear exactly the same things about Octave vs Matlab, and if I listen too closely, I find it disheartening. Why work on something that will forever suck and not be a competitor, and can't implement the full list of features because we don't have the giant budget of our non-free competitor? But then I remember that people are typically more flexible than they appear to be when they write these lists, and you'll discover that they may do without some of the features that they list, at least in some circumstances. And that there exist many other people with different lists of sine qua nons who will use the free as in freedom alternative you're working on because they have different needs. So, to the OpenNote developers and to anyone else implementing a FAIF replacement I say this: don't let these giant lists of features and suggestions about how you'll never be competitive grind you down. There are many people out there who will appreciate your work, sometimes even the people who compiled these lists. Look at the lists, see what you can implement, and don't be disheartened by the parts that seem impossible to implement. Who knows, maybe some day someone will come along and help you implement the parts that seem so hopeless to you. Keep your chin up, free software devs!
  • elsamuko 13y ago
    Octave is awesome! Keep up the good work. At university everyone was begging for Matlab instances from the licence server, while I had 6 instances of Octave open :)
  • SiVal 13y ago
    Instead of the GIMP limping along behind PhotoShop, both dragging their decades-old legacy baggage, monolithic architectures, 1990s pricing models, etc., into the foreseeable future, I wish we had something more like Octave, SQLite, or Python: a powerful, faceless dev platform on which to build graphics-processing apps. Basically, a runtime that holds a GPU-optimal image model (raster layers, vector layers, non-destructive edit management, multi-session undo, etc.), a set of APIs for sending memory-protected commands to the model, and a growing standard library of routines that have proven useful (network comms for offloading some processes or results to "the cloud", input/output codecs, CSS3, whatever). It would have a relatively easy to use scripting language with some built-in data types such as layer, region, vectorPolygon, gradient, font, etc., plus the usual lists, dicts, first-class functions, etc. Scripts that get a lot of use could be reimplemented in C, etc. Developers could wrap whatever GUIs they wanted around this engine, creating easy consumer apps such as a slideshow or a camera-to-computer file importer with a magnifying glass and a keep/delete shortcut, all the way up to building clones of PhotoShop, Illustrator, resurrecting Fireworks, and so on. Maybe someone would build a GUI builder for it that let you drag image rectangles and buttons into a window and script the whole thing, so non-programmers could create lens comparison apps, blink comparators for comet hunting.... I'd so much rather have a platform like this, where the hardest part--the image engine--would be done by experts, and the apps themselves, the feature sets, the UIs, could then be built by hordes of amateurs.
• copergi 13y ago
  >He isn't using the functionality that Photoshop provides And since that is the same for the vast majority of photoshop users, he provided a super helpful guide for them. It does not say "how everyone can switch to gimp".
  • eropple 13y ago
    You have a long road to hoe before you claim so emphatically that that's true for the "vast majority" of Photoshop users. Photoshop is the 90/10 app to end all 90/10 apps. I do very straightforward digital art and manipulation and I'd put my head in an oven before trying to do it in GIMP, and I am not using anything complex.
    • copergi 13y ago
      I didn't say you would want to switch. I said most people use little photoshop functionality. If you think that is controversial, then I think you are delusional.
      • eropple 13y ago
        GIMP doesn't support all of most people's ten percent, almost regardless of involvement. That is very far from delusional.