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

[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.

[tito_swineflu@sfba.social]

@mjibrower @Sylvhem affinity seems to only work on mac and windows, right?

[albinanigans@blackqueer.life]

@Sylvhem

EDIT: well maybe not GIMP actually

[albinanigans@blackqueer.life]

@tito_swineflu @mjibrower @Sylvhem

I think it does.

And the now-free Affinity has Canva/AI slop options embedded in the thing, so unless you can get your hands on Versions 1 or 2 I don't recommend it anymore.

[tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz]

@Purple @Sylvhem I learnt GIMP directly. So it feels natural to me. I think "GIMP is unintuitive" complaints are mostly "GIMP is unfamiliar".

[cmik@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Sylvhem I learned how to use GIMP over time but it feels backwards even without any experience with photoshop. It improved a lot when they docked its windows by default. But layers, selections, gui layouts on highres screen, that all can be improved a lot.

[eingemaischt@chaos.social]

@Sylvhem As long as all "practical tests" are on how similar alternatives are to photoshop this is quite hard.... ( https://www.golem.de/news/photoshop-geklont-kann-adobe-einpacken-2610-214045-3.html )

[codl@chitter.xyz]

@Sylvhem what's the context here? what's the piece of software mentioned?

[siph@meemu.org]

@codl @Sylvhem pretty sure it's this https://bsky.app/profile/jamesomalley.co.uk/post/3mxbl36nkms2q