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this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2024
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I will take a look on it when release. As a graphic designer, try to use gimp is a real pain, but I'm desperate of stop using adobe right now.
I'm not a designer (I have spared the world from my designs) but I think the Affinity suite is pretty good. It's not as feature complete as Photoshop but it's fairly close and the UI is also fairly close.
Ye, im aware of it. Will be awesome if it runs in linux
The UI is such a shame. Inkscape and Krita's UI are so intuitive too
Inkscape is great! That one I actually use it more that illus to do vector things.
start using it for cropping and basic things and it'll be easier later to increase usage
How about Krita? I am not a graphic designer but I thought it's easier to adopt for adobe users. And I use it sometimes.
I understanded krita more like a artist tool for draw than a photo editor.
That's how it started, as more of a replacement for Corel Painter, but today it's a very competent photo editor too, personally I find it much better than GIMP.
It's not free of pain points though - text editing sucks compared to Photoshop, (it's similar but better than GIMP though, both input text into dialog prompt then render it, GIMP is one and done, you need do it again if you want to edit, Krita lets you edit) no WYSIWYG on the canvas.
Also getting used to the UI will take a bit from PS.
It can do a lot, for example some people use it as a PDF editor.
i wish someone can fork it and improve it there was a attempt but it is outdated and discontinued.
I'm not a graphics designer, I just occasionally dabble in GIMP. Is it really that bad or is it just different from Adobe? I've had some issues at first because the GUI is not intuitive in the slightest but I kind of enjoy the workflow now.
Although the most complicated thing I've ever done was recreating an AI generated logo with actual symmetry, logic and around 20 layers.
I find it great and in fact I prefer some things to photoshop, like the default keyboard shortcuts, saves as a project file, better filters, amazing plugins, full control over preferences and scriptability. I also prefer the foreground select tool and unified transform tool. There are a few things that PS does better though, like its warp tool and custom print settings, plus obviously nondestructive editing (coming in next GIMP release). People shit on GIMP way more than it deserves. I put it down to a) sunk costs in learning Photoshop b) slow development in the past and c) groupthink/fashionable.
As a 10+ year GIMP user, yes it's that bad.
I still use it because it's the only relatively full featured photo editor that works on all my platforms, but... Yea.
It's bad because it's full-featured?
Well, i feel like gimp only have like the 40% of the funcitons and some of the dont work so well. Just starting with no CMYK mode, so I can't work with printables.
If you're doing serious printing you need to convert to the printer profile before printing anyway.
Fair enough, I'm far from an expert when it comes to working with these tools.
For professionals used to Photoshop, yes it is that bad. People want what's familiar because they're used to it and they're busy or lazy. They don't want to learn something new.
If GIMP wanted to increase their userbase by a million overnight, they would make it look more like Photoshop.
The problem is they and many current users are huge FOSS zealots and see this kind of thing akin to selling your soul to the devil.
To me Adobe has very bad UI, I did try to use it, and first time was awful. Freehand was a lot more intuitive, but when Macromedia was bought, was killed.
I get, that a lot of people did learn to use Adobe UI, and of course they want the same because they're used to, but doesn't make it better.
Affinity is more friendlier that PS to me.
I'm not saying that GIMP UI is perfect or good, but right now, to my casual use case, is not bad. Obviously can be better, and get some ideas from other UIs.