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    [–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (29 children)

    Under the hood I actually really like GIMP. I'm also not too bothered by there being no circle tool. My problem with GIMP is that if there were a circle tool in it, its a little too difficult to find it if it does exist.

    If they had some front end re-write eventually where they just moved some stuff around and better organized the front end of the application, I think a lot more people would use it. UX/UI is really important, and I'm sure the contributors of GIMP know this as they seem to have done well to try to make the interface feel straightforward by putting stuff under menu's and whatnot, but the location of things just seems unintuitive/non-standard compared to what every other application does.

    The other issue I have with GIMP is just that its development cycle takes forever compared to most every other open source application I have seen.

    Not to say there is a great answer to any of this, image manipulation/animation software is not an easy thing to program by any means so I understand why it can take forever, but I just wish there was a real answer.

    In the mean time, I've just been trying to get by with krita, though krita really seems geared toward digital painting specifically.

    [–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    People who complain about GIMP have never had to use Inkscape. Now THAT is one horribly unintuitive UI.

    [–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 5 points 2 months ago

    I've never been into vector graphics, but I had reason to use Inkscape recently, and I was actually surprised by how easy to use it was and how much the UI made sense.

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