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

[purple@woof.tech]

@Sylvhem

I think this issue with software like GIMP (or well, GIMP specifically as I've tried it before) is that it just doesn't work intuitively.

GIMP imo is one of the most frustrating pieces of software to exist, where nothing ends up working the way you expect it to, or want it to. I don't mean this to be disrespectful to the people who work on it, it probably works wonderful for them and that's awesome, but not for a large group of people.

Why these AI clones are getting popular instead is because they basically look and work exactly like software people already know how to use. It's slop, but it's the slop they know.

[sylvhem@eldritch.cafe]

@Purple I honestly don’t understand that complaint, when the GIMP’s interface pretty much looks like the one from Photoshop CS5.
But I’m neither an expert on design, nor on interfaces so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@Purple @Sylvhem I also despise GIMP's user experience. Mostly just because it's different and abstruse compared to what adobe has made me expect.

[ohir@social.vivaldi.net]

@Purple
> GIMP ... is that it just doesn't work intuitively.

After using GIMP for 20 years on I'd say that the issue with software like Photoshop (or well, Photoshop specifically as I've tried it before) is that it just doesn't work intuitively.

It is not that GIMP or Inkscape is not intuitive, it is – just Photoshop user intuition was trained against the GIMP UX. The same with LO, Inkscape and almost any other FLOSS software.

@Sylvhem

[ohir@social.vivaldi.net]

@Sylvhem
> I honestly don’t understand that complaint

I do, having experience with switching users to FLOSS. Their muscle memory is working against them. Like 'the blur dialog has default slider not how it should be'. It pains them the more, the more they have been using the other side professionally.

@Purple

[usul@piaille.fr]

@Sylvhem add dark table

[doctormo@floss.social]

@Sylvhem @star

I agree. It's constantly being piled on by bots.
- Website administrator

[sylvhem@eldritch.cafe]

@doctormo Oh no, so that’s what is happening :(.

@star

[starlily@mastodon.social]

@Purple @Sylvhem
GIMP is trash.

Its designed by software engineers interested in graphics programming, not artists or creators. They take no input from anyone who uses their product seriously or casually - none. They are incredibly defensive of their inappropriate name.

Ill never give them a nickel.

[noracodes@tenforward.social]

@Sylvhem Remember when GIMP devs called a Black GNOME contributor a monkey? I remember. They're also the reason a certain infamous gangstalking forum has a thread on me.

Krita rocks though.

[tito_swineflu@sfba.social]

@Sylvhem i love inkscape and gimp, but can we all agree that gimp needs to change its name and get a real designer to make new tool icons?

[sylvhem@eldritch.cafe]

@starlily Good for you!

@Purple

[sylvhem@eldritch.cafe]

@noracodes Wow, I didn’t know that !

[mjibrower@social.vivaldi.net]

@tito_swineflu @Sylvhem I mean, we can agree all we want (and I do), but time and again they’ve said they aren’t going to change the name. Better just to use a different product. Krita and Affinity are both free, and so much better.

[jonathankoren@sfba.social]

@Sylvhem gimp is trash. It literally hasn’t changed in any meaningful way in 26 years. It is lightyears behind every photo editing software. Decades ago it was a credible alternative, but today it’s worthless. They should just shutdown that project.

[sylvhem@eldritch.cafe]

@jonathankoren Thank you for this very useful comment.

[jonathankoren@sfba.social]

@starlily @Purple @Sylvhem yup. The spend all their time on color space theory and smart select is still using pixel value similarity algorithms from the 1980s.

Fucking hell.

[jonathankoren@sfba.social]

@Sylvhem you’re more than welcome.

[timrosu@toot.si]

@Netraven @Purple @Sylvhem I loved gimp for simple cropping and drawing tasks, because it opened so fast (0.5 seconds). The new version 3 takes 4 times that to open... I guess they now matched opening speed on windows and linux

[jrdepriest@infosec.exchange]

@Sylvhem

There's also Paint.NET for Windows users. You can support the free app by buying a copy from the Microsoft store or donating directly.