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this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
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Gimp is a shame, they really had something to begin with. I use Krita now which is way more like you would expect a FOSS image editor to be. Much more similar to Photoshop if you came from there.
At work, we use gimp headless though. The scripting capabilities are great!
I feel like you replied to someone else's comment?
Gimp feels just like Photoshop before Creative Suite editions...
Everything that's not MS Paint, feels like a huge upgrade to me. On Windows, I open
Paint.NET
as often as any other image editor, just because I don't need more than that for most copy\paste\crop\color tasks.I haven't done any illustration or background\logo art in about 20 years. I'm not even sure what features are considered most defining, for a good image editor these days?
Yes that was the wrong comment. Hmm. Someone said they don't use some of the FOSS tools because they are so bad.
I think the main complaint with Gimp is that it is way more complex than the simpler editors, without actually being excellent for experienced users, like Photoshop is. Photoshop is also simpler to use for beginners to Gimp really missed both targets.
Krita is simpler than Photoshop and Gimp but much more powerful than n base level like Paint.
I'd say layers and masks (and operations that go with that) are the main step up from entry level.
Edit: fix typo