2026-10-21 08:27 UTC
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@Blaad@europe.pub 2026-10-21 08:52
Ngl gimp never took off because it’s UX is terrible, plus it’s far from feature complete. It’s like freecadbin that regard, it exists, it’s foss, but it’s massively inferior to the paid options because UX is horrible and it breaks in weird ways. Foss can be as good or better than non foss, just look at blender or Kicad, but these two aren’t it.
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@Balldowern@lemmy.world 2026-10-22 01:51
GIMP is good for most people. The clone is not guaranteed to be maintained.
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@rabber@lemmy.ca 2026-10-22 00:48
Gimp isn’t good enough for pro level work.
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@gilokee@lemmy.world 2026-10-21 11:31
gimp fucking sucks though.
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@Krudler@lemmy.world 2026-10-21 17:20
To me the funny thing about these online squabbles is the people insisting gimp is somehow good. It is not, it has never been - it is an appalling embarrassment of a tool. Sure, a programmer who doesn’t really know anything about professional imaging can use it to make a couple icons, but if you want to do any form of professional work, for-fucking-get it. It’s a joke and it always has been a joke. I was a professional game developer/producer for over 20+ years and gimp has ALWAYS been the laughing stock.
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@ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-22 01:23
Gimp 3 came out this past year and I feel made massive improvements that I use often for my little simple projects but I think everyone still complaining about Gimp 2 because they tried it many years ago and said it sucks and went back to paying adobe.
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@magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-21 11:10
Hell hath no fury like a photographer told to use UX that isn’t literally an 1:1 exact clone of Photoshop UX. What babies.
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@fisch@lemmy.world 2026-10-22 09:05
I’ve been using GIMP for 15 years and it’s a great tool for image editing. It doesn’t have the cool AI functions that Photoshop had even before generative AI became a thing, but for most common and advanced image editing needs, it’s a perfectly suitable tool.