Sidebar, it's been interesting to watch the contrast between gimp and blender or even Krita which are truly industry competitive if not industry leaders.

GIMP is good for most people. The clone is not guaranteed to be maintained.

I've been using GIMP for 15 years and it's a great tool for image editing. It doesn't have the cool AI functions that Photoshop had even before generative AI became a thing, but for most common and advanced image editing needs, it's a perfectly suitable tool.

Am I a joke to you?

YES

Gimp 3 came out this past year and I feel made massive improvements that I use often for my little simple projects but I think everyone still complaining about Gimp 2 because they tried it many years ago and said it sucks and went back to paying adobe.

I started with GIMP, and I've stuck with it and enjoyed it for all my use cases for over a decade.

I tried Photoshop a few times and hated it every time.

I love GIMP

Ngl gimp never took off because it's UX is terrible, plus it's far from feature complete.

It's like freecad in that regard, it exists, it's foss, but it's massively inferior to the paid options because UX is horrible and it breaks in weird ways.

Foss can be as good or better than non foss, just look at blender or Kicad, but these two aren't it.

Been using GIMP since it got too hard to find an updated cracked warez zip file of Photoshop from Limewire.

Hell hath no fury like a photographer told to use UX that isn't literally an 1:1 exact clone of Photoshop UX.

What babies.

I've used GIMP many times. Every time I do, I fight with it for hours, try looking up tutorials for how to do things only to find out that everything is different in the tutorial compared to what is happening in my version of the program, and then I rage quit and use something else.

Sorry but I do not find GIMP usable. Not that I have any interest in the ai clone either. I've heard good things about Krita, so next time I need to edit something I'll be spending some hours learning how to use that.

Yep. I hate Adobe, but Photoshop and Lightroom really are excellent products.

I love FOSS suites. I generally use Inkscape over Illustrator when I can, even though I have a full Creative Cloud license. I use QGIS frequently over ArcGIS even though I have ESRI. I use stone tablets and my own blood over Word because fuck Word.

But GIMP just doesn't do it.

If GIMP would just eat the complaints of their small, dedicated users, and make the UI more like Photoshop, they'd grow their userbase much faster.

Maybe, that's why they don't do it?

I think the trouble with art software is that Photoshop is the biggest over-complicated unwieldy piece of shit ever made, and everybody has to ape it because "it's what artists know".

Bring back Deluxe Paint.

is this some kind of AI upscale of the meme? His skin has a fabric-like texture, uncanny 👀

So meta: the original meme was a blurry photo of a tv broadcast, now it's an ai upscale in the fuck_ai community

it doesn't seem's a screencap from that youtuber that paid like $1000 to purchase the full dvd set from the african broacaster, then watched hundreds of episodes to find it => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP2wiN7aW4U