I can rarely say I hate using a piece of software but I really hate Gimp.
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I can rarely say I hate using a piece of software but I really hate Gimp.
Here's the thing; I can use #Photoshop like a pro with my eyes closed. I know all the keyboard shortcuts and understand what everything does.
Same with #Figma. And those skills are transferable to other apps. If I open #Sketch I can pretty much understand everything with ease, even though its not my daily driver.
Then I open #Gimp. And I understand nothing. Nothing works as I would expect. It's wild.
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I can rarely say I hate using a piece of software but I really hate Gimp.
Here's the thing; I can use #Photoshop like a pro with my eyes closed. I know all the keyboard shortcuts and understand what everything does.
Same with #Figma. And those skills are transferable to other apps. If I open #Sketch I can pretty much understand everything with ease, even though its not my daily driver.
Then I open #Gimp. And I understand nothing. Nothing works as I would expect. It's wild.
Gimp has always felt to me like "A design tool by developers for developers"
And I don't mean that in an insulting way to developers. Just that it feels like a FOSS project that the design community chose to ignore and so developers just did their best effort at making a design tool without any input from actual designers.
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I can rarely say I hate using a piece of software but I really hate Gimp.
Here's the thing; I can use #Photoshop like a pro with my eyes closed. I know all the keyboard shortcuts and understand what everything does.
Same with #Figma. And those skills are transferable to other apps. If I open #Sketch I can pretty much understand everything with ease, even though its not my daily driver.
Then I open #Gimp. And I understand nothing. Nothing works as I would expect. It's wild.
@matt I had the same. I liked using photoshop (don't think I would now, fucking AI coming out the walls) but gimp felt like it was... Made out of Lego or something. In a bad way.
