How is gimp?

it's much much worse than photoshop

It does everything you need it to, as long as you aren't an artist.

Its great if you never used Photoshop but if you did it'll be hard to get used to

>>62049687
What would an artist be using a computer for, anyway?

>>62049700
inkscape

You can actually make pretty decent art with just a mouse now. Though mostly cartoon art. But as a bonus you can scale it to any resolution without distortion or loss of detail.

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>>62049700
Yeah, why would anyone use a very powerful tool to make art ?

>>62049672
>indian.jpg
>shit
hmmmmm

>>62049672
Depends on what you need it for. You can setup it to be a quite powerful tool to retouch some photos and make some dank memes. But nobody uses it for professional work cuz Adobe got a monopoly in everything related to graphic design, retouch, publishing, etc.

GIMP makes technical tasks easy and creative tasks impossible. It's basically designed from a programmer's perspective, which makes it unpopular.
It's supposedly very easy to script though.

>>62049672
I have used it for more than 8 years to do basic shit. Never had any problems or never found anything that it could do but photoshop could. Sure some things takes (a lot) more time to get done with gimp.

gimp can do everything photoshop can do and more
the training wheels are off

>>62049858
mspaint can do everything gimp can and more
the training wheels are off

>>62049672
It's good, but not as good as the webcrawler adobe uses to scour the internet for references to gimp so their paid shills can respond in timely fashion.

it's garbage

>>62049700
Are you retarded?

>>62049858
they both manipulate pixels, so yeah, in that sense GIMP can do everyhing PS can do but so is >>62049876

GIMP is and always will be inferior to Photoshop. There is literally no way for them to even catch up -- as far as capabilities go -- without serious funding and a dedicated staff.

>>62049672
I prefer PDN, but if you're an open-source autist, GIMP is fine.

>>62049723
Inkscape to illustrator isn't nearly as embarrassing as gimp to photoshop, but it's still not as good.

>>62051687
shilling.

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>>62049672
Have you ever used corn holders to scrape out your eyes, OP? It's kinda like that, only worse.

>>62049672
Usability and user experience is bad, lotsa counter intuitive controls, magic keyboard shortcuts and functions dug somewhere behind the rainbow. GIMP still fucks up my window- and tool dialog-arrangements every now and then. But if you're patient and willing to learn a lot of special UI ideas, you'll get a lot of manipulation tools and fx, even 16 bit color precision per channel.

>>62049672
it's not a photoshop replacement but it is a pretty decent alternative with a few addons, there's definitely a few niche areas where photoshop is your only choice however

>>62052154
>even 16 bit
this isn't something special for a dedicated tool like that, it's expected.
the 'competition' does 32 bits

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The only question you need to ask yourself is, "If gimp is so bad, why does adobe pay so many shills to attack it?"

>>62051693
>want to do something simple in pdn
>google how to do it
>well you can't do that but this addon might be able to do it

every god damn time

>>62052256
wait, people will pay me to shit on gimp?

>>62052271
no, and this is why photoshop is superior, serious funding and a dedicated staff are superior to a minority autistic volunteer shilling force

>>62049672
Is this a boy or a girl? I really cannot tell.

>>62052258
>he hasn't installed the entire PDN addon library

>>62049672

I've been finding GIMP a perfectly good program. I can understand the argument that Photoshop is more feature rich and will always be better, but I think in most cases PS is overkill for what the average user would like to use it for. That is, seamlessly composing portions of one image into another, basic meme tropes, etc.

GIMP difficult to pick up at first, but I eventually realised that I needed to learn certain usage patterns that are unique to the program - in particular, getting used to 'floating' and 'anchoring' layers,

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>>62049686
fpbp

>>62049672
It's like Sony Vegas : Good for little shitposts, god awful for actual professional work.

>>62049672
It's good shit.

>>62049672
paint.net with plugins is the real kino

>>62049672
it is ...
wait for it ...
Gimped
HAHAHA rofl LMAO i totally memed you

>>62052316
Me neither

>>62052234
gimp latest can do 64 bit floats.

>>62054520
o no u dint

>>62049672
I use GIMP when I'm editing textures for feminine penises because it's only 250 MB compared to however many GB photoshop is now. It seems like it would be harder to make something from scratch in it though.

>>62049700
Do you think all your hentai is hand drawn?

>>62049788
>art

Not art

>>62049672
It's both shit and good.

>free
>runs on 10 year old hardware with no issues
>available on all major platforms
>clean install and uninstall, no bullshit cloud connections or anything like that, no sign in

however
>limited automation, no easy mode for effects
>missing simple convenience features like visible guide in iwarp tool
>photoshop and light room are magnitudes better when you get into deeper and more complex effects

>>62049700
Are you fucking joking?

>>62049672
If you want free shit and don't wanna torrent shit (like everyone else), get paint.net.

>>62049788
>Using a graphics design tablet for drawing

That's a waste, you aren't making art if you draw on a computer retard, it's just a trashy line of ones and zeros that try to emulate art, poorly

>>62049672
It's alright. It can do some things that Photoshop can, though in a more convoluted way.

However, when you consider that it's free and open source (FOSS), and it work as well as it does, it's pretty fucking awesome.

>>62049672
i have experience on photoshop, i can say you cannot compare. i use gimp for simpler pieces and colouring

>>62049672
It's shit right now but has a lot of potential

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>>62049700
I agree.

>>62049672
are you using it professionally?

if yes then yeah it's going to be bad.

if no then yeah it's pretty good for what it is.

like most free software, it's only good for personal use. libreoffice is another good example of this. only the libreofficer writer is somewhat decent but even then there are better alternatives.

i use gimp to make renders of my cute 2d anime girls. although it's still pretty annoying because you have to go through a whole lot of trouble when you export it because gimp can't into compression.

>>62049693
I'm finding this to be true. Got a fresh OS install, and on this go around I'm tryna keep proprietary shit to a minimum. Installed Gimp and I'm having a tough time getting used to it. Though, granted I only use it once or twice a week. I imagine if you used it daily you'd get it down pretty quick, even if you've used PS before.

>>62051664
Different anon here. Genuinely interested.. can you link me to something that Gimp can't do? I'm >>62059427 and curious.

>>62049814
It makes technical tasks retardedly impossible, too. Maybe when it has adjustment layers and doesn't autoclear any portion of any layer which leaves the base canvas.

>>62059435
>>62060135

Also, it can't use CMYK colorspace, which is necessary for any "real" printing. Anything edited in GIMP is guaranteed to come out a different color than specified.

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Consider the following:
>http://www.clipstudio.net/en

Krita

>gimp isn't as good as photoshop
no shit dummy, it's free

>>62056869
Said shitty oil painters to skillful and fast acrylic painters.
Art can be anything as long as society perceives it as art. Sadly this applies to FP and it's disgusting. But even the nazis called it "entartete Kunst" (degenerate art).