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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Adobe may be a shit company but Photoshop's user interface is far better than GIMP

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

Photoshop has a nice looking UI but there are some very subtle but really useful things GIMP does that Photoshop doesn't. For example when drawing with the Rectangle/Ellipse tool GIMP doesn't immediately lock in the selection but gives me handles I can use to perfectly fine tune the selection down to the pixel, especially for the ellipse tool. I don't get that level of control over the marquee tool in Photoshop.

I can also freely scroll and zoom while using the lasso tool in GIMP and it can go between free draw lasso and poly draw lasso by clicking and dragging or just clicking to establish new lasso nodes. And I can just undo any of those nodes by hitting backspace.

The only tool I really miss in GIMP is the magnetic lasso but needing to drag the cursor all the way to the edge of the screen just to scroll somewhere else on an image makes the tool so much worse.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't think that's nearly enough to make it better.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If I had to use GIMP again I'd just kill myself.

Then again, I sure wouldn't pay for photoshop, either.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

While we're making unpopular statements about free software: Audacity is the GIMP of the audio-editing world. REAPER is where it's at.