RE: https://mograph.social/@dilmandila/117432072219819451
Please help finance GIMP, Inkscape and Krita instead of spending your money on trying to get Claude to make you a Photoshop clone.
https://www.gimp.org/donating/
https://inkscape.org/support-us/donate/
https://krita.org/fr/donations/
I think this issue with software like GIMP (or well, GIMP specifically as I've tried it before) is that it just doesn't work intuitively.
GIMP imo is one of the most frustrating pieces of software to exist, where nothing ends up working the way you expect it to, or want it to. I don't mean this to be disrespectful to the people who work on it, it probably works wonderful for them and that's awesome, but not for a large group of people.
Why these AI clones are getting popular instead is because they basically look and work exactly like software people already know how to use. It's slop, but it's the slop they know.
@Purple
> GIMP ... is that it just doesn't work intuitively.
After using GIMP for 20 years on I'd say that the issue with software like Photoshop (or well, Photoshop specifically as I've tried it before) is that it just doesn't work intuitively.
It is not that GIMP or Inkscape is not intuitive, it is – just Photoshop user intuition was trained against the GIMP UX. The same with LO, Inkscape and almost any other FLOSS software.
@tusharhero @Purple @Sylvhem Years ago, I learned (in Byte or Dr. Dobbs, probably the latter) of the psychological term "baby duck syndrome" which explains a lot about switching apps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_(psychology)#Baby_duck_syndrome
Oct 13, 2026, 4:09 PM@Sylvhem add dark table
@Sylvhem Remember when GIMP devs called a Black GNOME contributor a monkey? I remember. They're also the reason a certain infamous gangstalking forum has a thread on me.
Krita rocks though.
@Sylvhem i love inkscape and gimp, but can we all agree that gimp needs to change its name and get a real designer to make new tool icons?
@tito_swineflu @Sylvhem I mean, we can agree all we want (and I do), but time and again they’ve said they aren’t going to change the name. Better just to use a different product. Krita and Affinity are both free, and so much better.
@mjibrower @Sylvhem affinity seems to only work on mac and windows, right?
@tito_swineflu @mjibrower @Sylvhem
Correct, along with iOS. And Affinity it was purchased by Canva a couple years ago and went "freemium," which I see as a bad sign for its long-term viability.
@Sylvhem gimp is trash. It literally hasn’t changed in any meaningful way in 26 years. It is lightyears behind every photo editing software. Decades ago it was a credible alternative, but today it’s worthless. They should just shutdown that project.
Oct 13, 2026, 10:54 PM