If you haven’t used it in a while (1y+) don’t even bother with the 2.10.xx – I use Krita, GIMP, Inkscape – did some image editing in GIMP yesterday and it went good.
Since the latter 2.99.xx releases my position & criticisms have changed. New UX, Non-destructive Layer Filters and the workflow has improved the software a lot. There is a ton of activity on their gitlab.
Its still not perfect but easily beats Photoshop Wine at all basic operations.
And since this post is about Photoshop. Don’t pirate it. Be the change in the world you want to see. Let Adobe Rot in Pieces for decades of being anti Linux and anti FOSS despite popular demand and big Hollywood bucks.
Make them a relic of a long forgotten decade. The sooner we can move on the better.
I actually haven’t used Gimp for at least 2 years so I might try it again. My work gives me adobe CC so I use it there. I wouldn’t mind trying it again for personal.
I know adobe is the devil, but you simply can’t beat PS for UX and UI. Even their hot keying is far better than GIMP(back in the day, maybe).
Yeah I totally agree, I love Photoshop UX colors and general function. It’s been a while though.
On the other hand GIMP has a HUD command palette with hotkey / and you can search for all image functions which is fine with me as I use my keeb a lot.
And I did import PS hotkeys to go with my many years of memory and it helped me feel at home much better.
I have used many image editors over the years and I can at least say for basic functions, cropping, scaling, art it opens fast compared to wine and the pre 3.x UI is so much nicer to use.
I would definitely not recommend a cold switch for anyone at a job, the transition would be frustrating and problematic. But learning the “life raft” as a backup seems sensible.
It was a hard hit to my ego going from a PS God back to a peasant in terms of output, but I’d say the last few years the tooling has improved tremendously and I can say I’m a novice or mid tier photo editor in GIMP.
The text tool is nowhere as robust as PS, I felt like PS was a all in one printer one stop shop. But then there’s Inkscape so I am okay with dividing my functions up among a few tools instead of only 1.
I’ve designed concepts for houses in GIMP as weird as that may seem.
God do I hate 2.8 and 2.10 UX it was soo bad in terms of getting out of my way and an embarrassment at work, 2.99.xx thankfully is light years apart.
Edit: Also the GEGL non destructive fx stuff is really interesting and G’MIC Qt addon filters
I’ll def give it a try again. I manage website performance and run AB tests and have to chop my own images. So it’s not terribly demanding. So maybe it can help me transition
I used to feel that way about it 10+ years.
If you haven’t used it in a while (1y+) don’t even bother with the 2.10.xx – I use Krita, GIMP, Inkscape – did some image editing in GIMP yesterday and it went good.
Since the latter 2.99.xx releases my position & criticisms have changed. New UX, Non-destructive Layer Filters and the workflow has improved the software a lot. There is a ton of activity on their gitlab.
Its still not perfect but easily beats Photoshop Wine at all basic operations.
https://www.gimp.org/news/2024/02/21/gimp-2-99-18-released/
And since this post is about Photoshop. Don’t pirate it. Be the change in the world you want to see. Let Adobe Rot in Pieces for decades of being anti Linux and anti FOSS despite popular demand and big Hollywood bucks.
Make them a relic of a long forgotten decade. The sooner we can move on the better.
I actually haven’t used Gimp for at least 2 years so I might try it again. My work gives me adobe CC so I use it there. I wouldn’t mind trying it again for personal.
I know adobe is the devil, but you simply can’t beat PS for UX and UI. Even their hot keying is far better than GIMP(back in the day, maybe).
Yeah I totally agree, I love Photoshop UX colors and general function. It’s been a while though.
On the other hand GIMP has a HUD command palette with hotkey
/and you can search for all image functions which is fine with me as I use my keeb a lot.And I did import PS hotkeys to go with my many years of memory and it helped me feel at home much better.
I have used many image editors over the years and I can at least say for basic functions, cropping, scaling, art it opens fast compared to wine and the pre 3.x UI is so much nicer to use.
I would definitely not recommend a cold switch for anyone at a job, the transition would be frustrating and problematic. But learning the “life raft” as a backup seems sensible.
It was a hard hit to my ego going from a PS God back to a peasant in terms of output, but I’d say the last few years the tooling has improved tremendously and I can say I’m a novice or mid tier photo editor in GIMP.
The text tool is nowhere as robust as PS, I felt like PS was a all in one printer one stop shop. But then there’s Inkscape so I am okay with dividing my functions up among a few tools instead of only 1.
I’ve designed concepts for houses in GIMP as weird as that may seem.
God do I hate 2.8 and 2.10 UX it was soo bad in terms of getting out of my way and an embarrassment at work, 2.99.xx thankfully is light years apart.
Edit: Also the GEGL non destructive fx stuff is really interesting and G’MIC Qt addon filters
I’ll def give it a try again. I manage website performance and run AB tests and have to chop my own images. So it’s not terribly demanding. So maybe it can help me transition