The Photoshop clone that hurts GIMP

https://en.andros.dev/blog/b31f82ad/the-photoshop-clone-that-hurts-gimp/

3•andros•1h ago

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spottedmarley•40m ago

Nonsense. GIMP can only hurt itself by not being as good as other free alternatives. I've tried PhotoCraft and, if you ask me, Krita is the superior application and so I still use Krita. All these options are now on a level playing field and must be chosen on merit rather than cost.

herbst•23m ago

I didn't ask you, nobody asked me either. But I do think the UI of Photoshop is horrible and gimp is very easy and clean product I like to use that hasn't drastically changed 3 times since I learned using it.

joegibbs•16m ago

Gimp is quite terrible to use, it feels janky. It feels like more of a software project for the sake of being something to work on, rather than producing something that people would prefer to Photoshop.

Even after almost thirty years it’s still not user-friendly. Imagine if it had been developed like Blender: today not only would there not be AI Photoshop clones, there probably wouldn’t be Photoshop either, or it would be reduced to a niche product for corporate like Maya or 3ds Max.