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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I think GIMP is fantastic but when I bring it up I always get comments from people saying the UI "sucks", "makes no sense", is "backwards" etc. But they never say why. Is it the menu layout or something? I'm genuinely curious. I used Photoshop for many, many years before learning GIMP and I did find it confusing to begin with but it's a different piece of software. I had to learn Photoshop when I started using that too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You answered your own question. That learning curve, that confusion, you got over it because you're likely more technically minded and appreciate that new software requires learning new skills. Other people find that more frustrating than you and cannot get over it. This is especially true for people that don't use photo editing software all the time

And to be fair to them, GIMP deliberately tries to differentiate itself from Photoshop. It is not at all concerned with helping people make that transition. Some people will make it, some people won't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I hate Gimp with passion not only because it has a clunky interface that never got better, but because it's unreliable with big files. I lost many hours of work when trying to do the incredibly complex act of choosing a different font, only to see it crash and burn and lose all the changes.