No, it can’t do half the things MS Paint can, either. If anything, what it compares most closely to are older versions of JASC Paint Shop Pro. But since my image editing requirements are fairly basic, GIMP is actually pretty good for my usage.
I never understood when people say gimp is an alternative to Photoshop. Gimp is closer to MS paint than Photoshop.
EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 week ago
GIMP is still really resource intensive. I run LogoMotion (proprietary 2004 Windows software) or IrfanView for jobs like ones I’d use MS Paint for.
nforminvasion@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah I absolutely love FOSS and we should support it and use it, but also let’s not lie and glaze (albeit great) projects into something they’re not, or at least are not yet. Because then it becomes this weird circlejerk of implying that it’s just a skill issue actually, if you can’t manage to move your entire workflow to x Foss project.
This is especially true when talking to creative professionals who have been pigeonholed into a certain software or system of apps. And to pretend that this is just an individual issue is extremely dense, this is another example of capitalism providing “so much freedom and choice” and meanwhile, there’s very clear monopolies that are reinforced by industry standards, advertising, and public opinion being swayed by said advertising and conditioning.
df0@leminal.space 1 week ago
I don’t know who’s saying those things. I certainly am not.
nforminvasion@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Many people in YouTube comments, which sure I’m sure that a good number of them are bots. But even if only 20% are people, that’s still a good number of people saying this rhetoric.
Also the person above did not implicate that either. I was just talking generally.
df0@leminal.space 1 week ago
Got it, my bad, I misunderstood. And yeah I agree, it can be extremely hard and in lots of cases even impossible to leave adobe for FOSS alternatives as a professional.