Please help finance GIMP, Inkscape and Krita instead of spending your money on trying to get Claude to make you a Photoshop clone.

[aruban35mm@mastodon.social]

@Sylvhem and Darktable/Ansel/vkdt

[kleines_z@queer.group]

@Purple @Sylvhem
I can relate to that. I quickly gave up on using GIMP because I couldn't even understand how to downsize an image there. It looks to me like something for professional use that to me isn't worth learning to deal with because I only want something that helps me fix when a photo is too big to upload or send, when the light could be a bit brighter and the contrast a bit higher. I don't feel like putting lots of time and energy into learning how to do that with GIMP.

[forpeterssake@mastodon.xyz]

@tito_swineflu @mjibrower @Sylvhem
Correct, along with iOS. And Affinity it was purchased by Canva a couple years ago and went "freemium," which I see as a bad sign for its long-term viability.

[noracodes@tenforward.social]

@tragivictoria @Sylvhem I believe so, but it was years ago.

[tragivictoria@mastodon.com.pl]

@noracodes @Sylvhem i hope that person got banned then

[rey@toot.cat]

@Sylvhem the GNU Image Manipulation Program assholes can go fuck themselves, but yeah, support the other two for sure

[fandasin@social.linux.pizza]

@tusharhero @Purple @Sylvhem

Right?
I've started with GIMP years ago and I find Photoshop UI unintuitive.

[davidm_yeg@beige.party]

@tito_swineflu @Sylvhem

You’ve just proved the OPs point: if it needs to look nice do some designing for them or give them some money

[tito_swineflu@sfba.social]

@DavidM_yeg @Sylvhem Sure, but renaming and fixing the design are two things that the gimp world has been firmly against, whether or not they get money or design support. I regularly give money to open source projects.

[georgengelmann@graz.social]

@Sylvhem
Just pledged €5 per week to GIMP.

I hope this helps.

[georgengelmann@graz.social]

@Purple @Sylvhem

I wish I could pledge money specifically to make #FOSS projects user-friendly.

[wizardofdocs@wandering.shop]

@Sylvhem best case scenario: the slop kills Adobe and then dies shortly thereafter, leaving the better options as the only options

[karel_kosnar@mastodonczech.cz]

@Sylvhem GIMP and inkscape are good and I use them, but there is no good enough acrobat alternative. All pdf viewer/creator on Linux miss something, some feature (e.g. form filling, portable annotation)

[ftg@mastodon.radio]

@Sylvhem
And we had a perfectly working Photoshop clone for those who like the workflow and that's Photopea.

When the ArtCraft folks slopped up an Excel clone I knew they were just doing it for the lolz. What a waste.

[denisbloodnok@mendeddrum.org]

@FandaSin @tusharhero @Purple @Sylvhem And, ofc, the £250/year Photoshop lightens your wallet by might be thought of as switching to GIMP paying you £250/year to learn it...

[tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz]

@denisbloodnok @FandaSin @Purple @Sylvhem I don't think discarding our experience is helping. Many peoole just go with GIMP because it's much accessible (as in to get your hands on) than adobe.

[clouderst@abc.clouderst.xyz]

@ohir @Sylvhem @Purple well design consistency issues are to be expected, gimp has a perfectly serviceable interface - if users expect a photoshop interface they can continue paying adobe or sailing the high seas.

or of course use the vibe coded trash that struggles with moving layers

and i don't think it's an issue with oh developers don't care about users. as i've said it again, gimp has a perfectly usable interface but because nobody has the time or will to relearn how to use a new program we are suddenly hit with oh but it's too hard, oh it's not intuitive, which is a big misconception imo

[escgoat@mastodon.social]

@Sylvhem Going to mention Scribus, because print-layout software is also important

https://www.scribus.net

[illybytes@shrimp.imsofucking.gay]

@Sylvhem @Purple i wonder, did you install the PhotoGimp UI patch for gimp? cus by default Gimp looks nothing like photoshop at all