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 @Sylvhem
GIMP is trash.
Its designed by software engineers interested in graphics programming, not artists or creators. They take no input from anyone who uses their product seriously or casually - none. They are incredibly defensive of their inappropriate name.
Ill never give them a nickel.
@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?
@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.
@jonathankoren Thank you for this very useful comment.
@Sylvhem you’re more than welcome.
@Sylvhem best case scenario: the slop kills Adobe and then dies shortly thereafter, leaving the better options as the only options