GNU Image Manipulation Programme

Paint.NET is pretty good.

Also Krita.

>>61523861
It's not bad, learn how to use it.

>>61523974
Bad advice, learning how to use it is how people realize it sucks.

>>61524082
You've probably never used GIMP seriously other than opening it up once and being upset that it doesn't look exactly like Photoshop.

>But I need X

Unless you're a professional, no you probably don't.

Photoshop is not a good enough reason to install wine, never mind windows.

As a professional graphic artist who has a lot of clients in the agricultural sector, I often need a quick and easy way to draw green peppers.
Should I consider purchasing a photoshop license for this purpose?

green is my pepper

>>61524725
>You've probably never used GIMP seriously
No, I know GIMP quite well, have used it extensively for quite a while and it has several serious issues.

- I can't select multiple layers, or use a transparent color for the grid
- frequent unexpected crashes with work loss because no auto save
- no way to adjust curves for multiple layers simultaneously
- no united transform tool
- have I mentioned how layer management is shit already?
- float selection - boom, it becomes its own layer! but not really (and information around the edges of selection is lost)...
- brush and gradient editor are useless
- no way to tell what the hell's going on when rotating a layer on top of something complex
- etc...

Also non-functional issues:

- development is slow and inefficient with retarded multi-year release cycles
- this GEGL thing has been going on for ages and never gets anywhere[
- filing bugs is extremely hard (you have to document everything, explain the issues, figure out how much of it is localized to your build, how much of it is already fixed in the dev version, wade through a bunch of questions about which version you're using or discussions about how it isn't reproducible or arguments about how you should build again with different dependencies...)
- even harder to fork because it's such a convoluted poorly documented spaghetti code mess (two forks have failed already that I know of, namely CinePaint and GimpShop, and when your project is harder to fork than an entire office suite, it's usually a terrible sign)

>you don't really need X
It's not up to you to decide, it's up to me.

>>61523861
>remap keyboard shortcuts to mimic Photoshops
>Follow GIMP tutorials
>???
>Profit

not that hard anon. If you're not using keyboard shortcuts you're a brainlet who isn't working as well as they could even if they use photoshop.

>>61523861
Photoshop is, was, and will forever be free if you know how ;)

>>61525717
Just donate more shekels, goy.

But seriously, donation money made Krita a sweet piece of software, though desu I don't have a lot of confidence GIMP could achieve similar results with the same amount of money.

>>61525922
he didn't mean free beer
He meant free speech

>>61525922
Lightroom nigga, do you speak it?

>>61526316
This. GIMP is only remotably usable for photography anyway, it's a non-option for design. It doesn't even compete with Photoshop, if anything it only (barely) competes with Lightroom.