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[–] [email protected] 96 points 5 days ago (40 children)

Blender is fantastic

GIMP needs a total overhaul by designers. The image processing is fine, plugin ecosystem is good too, but the interface needs to be updated to include concepts that have changed.

For example you can’t add an outline around text, it’s very much a raster editor with layers, when most workflows benefit from vector concepts.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago (13 children)

GIMP needs a total overhaul by designers.

Isn't that what GIMP 3.0 is going for? It's not out yet, but it is a big overhaul.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago (11 children)

I’m not sure, but that’s exciting if so

GIMP UI as is hasn’t changed much in 20 years.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I remember GIMPshop being a thing back in the day. It was much easier for me, but it was abandoned ages ago. PhotoGIMP is fine, but it's missing a lot of the QoL stuff that makes Photoshop better.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah

And that’s not to say GIMP is bad software, it’s competing with a design app that’s almost a monopoly worth billions of dollars. That’s a high bar to beat for free.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Oh, no kidding! I have nothing but love for it. I'm just over here musing about it. The fact that it can do so much and get that close is damned amazing.

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