Why do people even use GIMP? What can it do that Photoshop can't? (Aside from being freeware or whatever)
>>55581486
being freeware and running on things that aren't OSX/Windows are its biggest draws
there really isn't anything it can do over PS, particularly due to the wide industry (and fuck, hobbyist) support for PS
>>55581486
gimp takes less resources
its free
better for batch processes
you can skin gimp to look like ps
its easier than ps
open source means easy modding.
Everything adobe does is retarded. PDFs and Creative Suite are shitty in 2016.
>>55581486
Nothing honestly. It's scripting is neat, though.
Anything GIMP has going for it is quickly fucked into submission by Photoshop's GPU acceleration.
It's free.
http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/creative-software/adobe-denies-free-cs2-downloads-are-giveaway/
>>55581486
>Paying for making dank frog memes
Nah, jamal
Just use krita already
>>55581486
Why would you pay a monthly fee to rent (not own) a piece of software?
Holy shit, I'm just looking this up now, 240 American dollars per year?
To rent a license to use software?
Even if photoshop is better than GIMP, are you really creating such wonderful, complex pieces of artwork that you can justify that kind of cost? For software you don't even own a copy of?
>GIMP is free as in I am poor
Just steal Photoshop.
>GIMP is free as in I am paranoid
Just curb your autism. Stop following in the footsteps of retards.
>Green Is My Pepper
>>55581986
>implying non-pro owns a license
>>55581486
photoshop, I have to pirate it, because there's still not free as in freedom alternative that can compete.
gimp is a pos of shit for hobbyists, though if all you want to do is create dank memes I guess gimp would be for you
>>55581486
Please don't use the term “freeware” as a synonym for “free software.” The term “freeware” was used often in the 1980s for programs released only as executables, with source code not available. Today it has no particular agreed-on definition.
>>55582063
>pos of shit
>>55581986
Unless you're a freelance Art Director/Graphic Designer it's entirely paid for by work. The basis of the creative cloud subscription model was to rope companies into becoming dependant on them and encouraging the use of Premiere Pro and After Effects alongside the likes of Photoshop and Illustrator in studios in order to kill off FCP, Avid, Nuke and Flame. A software license centralized workplace that is set up so that if someone would to use a program outside of the Adobe lexicon it basically inconveniences everyone else along the way and ends up costing money.
>>55581486
>freeware
Are you stupid OP?
>What can it do that Photoshop can't?
Everything you want since it's free software.
Scripting.
I haven't used Photoshop in almost 10 years. I refuse to rent software and pirating only gives these people an audience. Adobe needs to rot.
>>55582203
Just pirate it you fat pussy
Nobody buys that shit but apple users
>>55581486
it's free and pretty capable once you spend time with it. a torrent of photoshop is just as nice.
>>55581486
> krita
even once anon?
>>55581986
>paying for software in 2016
>>55581486
I haven't use GIMP in a huge amount of time, don't even think I have the patience to learn it, last I remembered it was hella bad with an awful GUI ( or maybe I wasn't use to it )
>>55581603
its not freeware, it's "free software". major difference
>>55581486
Gimp cant CYMK nativly.
That's it
gimp can open pictures of money
>>55581692
pixlr.com
A javascript application is 1000x better than that pile of pigshit gimp.
>>55582044
Go back to India, Rajeesh.
How shit am i if i prefer Paint.Net over GIMP?
>>55582911
no Pantone™ either
>>55581486
Gimp is a fucking joke, a hobbist project, photoshop is faster and more powerful.
I like gimp. It is quite good if you are not some retard that wants it to be exactly like babbies first image editor.
I use gimp for editing, krita for drawing, inkscape for vector and blender for 3d and video.
The only real issue gimp has is the colour depth but it's not like some gaymen childen, codemonkeys or actual shills on /g/ would even give it a real try. The amount of hate it gets around here is not reasonable all.
t. Someone who used Photoshop for ~10 years and had no major problems switching to a set of other programs.
You can't "draw" circles with GIMP
>>55585021
First of all: yes you can
Second: there are programs specifically made for drawing things that obviously are better suited for drawing.
>>55585059
>yes you can
No you can't.
Drawing circle involve selecting an area, then filling it with color.
Drawing means creating a layer with an object that can be adjusted later.
>>55585091
You are asking for vector editing.
Why aren't there more paint programs? Why is it just PS and GIMP?
>>55585154
There are a metric fuckton of them. Try krita if you want to draw/paint.
photoshop = paid for, police approved software
gimp = magical sex mask...
it really doesn't matter who's side you're on. what matters is the value of your result...
Is there anyway to change GIMP GUI to more user friendly?
>>55585221
But that's used for something different from PS and GIMP and PAINT.NET is garbage and for Windows.
>>55585439
A lot. Single window view, a theme, changes to the layout, real modding...
>>55581486
People do use GIMP? I have yet to see somebody doing it sans freetards on the Internet.
If you can pirate Photoshop, why not pirate it? It's the industry standard. Anyone that's actually used Photoshop knows it's second to none.
GIMP is a fine software but unless you have an issue with pirating Photoshop then you may as well just pirate the real deal.
Is there any clean photoshop and illustrator torrents out there?
I tried 6 different ones, two were in Russian, one didn't work, and the rest had rootkits and rats in them (one had rootkits in the .dlls)
>>55585950
industry what?!
fool
the whole point of avoiding photoshop, is because it is the standard
fuck the system
>>55585132
What do you think the circle-selector in GIMP is? a scaled GIF? All selection tools and drawing tools use vectors which are then mapped to the pixel grid. Dayum son.
>>55585520
Affinity Suite for mac. 50 bucks a pop, and worth it. (or torrent it, but what: are you poor?)
>>55586012
Ching Liu's always worked fine for me.
>>55586012
>(one had rootkits in the .dlls)
That's always on with Windows.
>>55583003
That shit uses flash.
>not using Pixelmator or Affinity Photo or Acorn
They're like photoshop, but better
>>55586109
maximum edgelord
>>55586109
>industry what?!
I love free software and absolutely _hate_ motherfucking Adobe, but what most freetards fail to realize is that Adobe software is the standard not because of its ability to arrange pixels or bezier curves in some amazing way, but because of its support for all kinds of industrial printing processes: ICC profiles management, plates separation, trapping, overprints, dot gains, all that shit. Free software will _never_ match decades of development done with close support from the pre-press and printing industry.
>>55581486
Photoshop:
-Smart objects
-Layer effects
-Many third-party plugins
GIMP:
-GPL (if you are a neckbeard that cares about that shit)
-Better scripting
-Cross-platform
>>55581486
GIMP is free. If Photoshop was free, exclude pirating, people wouldn't think twice about Photoshop vs GIMP.
>>55581976
Personally I use Krita. I like it but it's kinda confusing. Pleb drawfag here btw
>>55584942
>t. Someone who used Photoshop for ~10 years and had no major problems switching to a set of other programs.
t. liar
If you know how to use both then they are literally the same thing, no competition.
>>55581486
runs on linux
just does what i need
i'm not a professional photographer, i just want to edit things from time to time
Literally the best. For anything SAI doesn't do, Clipstudio does.
GIMP is lightweight, free, open source, and can do anything photoshop can.
I have a pirated version of Photoshop CC 2015. GIMP is better.
>>55587243
:^)
>>55583112
Baby duck most likely
>>55581692
GIMP is pure shit
>>55587028
You forgot 3D in Photoshop
>>55587748
>anything Photoshop can
3D? CMYK support? GPU accelerated display?
>>55581692
gimp runs like garbage
>>55582888
>mfw 90% of people who use GIMP don't know about pressing Tab to hide the panels
>>55588360
on windows or your shit machine maybe.
>>55588431
>have quad-core i5
>try to rotate a picture 22° in photoshop
>it gets rotated instantly
>try the same in GIMP
>takes 4 seconds to do the same thing.
>>55588459
>i don't understand how metadata rotation vs. pixel perfect rotation works
one of them will be no problem with your cpu, the other works faster with gpu acceleration.
quad core i5 doesn't actually tell that much about the performance since there are a lot of them in varying speeds, i would suggest you to lurk moar, post less and learn to give clear info on your system.
>>55588526
Of course I know the difference.
In PS I used the free transform tool to perform the rotation, in GIMP the rotate tool.
And any non-straight angle rotation requires recalculating all pixels.
(GPU acceleration in PS was disabled)
>Why do people even use GIMP?
In my experience a lot of GIMP users are poor or suffer from varying degrees of retardation.
>>55588564
Forgot to say the picture was the same, a 12MP image from my camera.
>>55583003
You're baiting, right?
>Flash
>Requires you to be connected to the internet to use it
>No plug-ins
>Slows browser window to a crawl
>>55581486
color to alpha
Its a great feature that gimp has had forever but photoshop has never ripped off for some reason. You can get the same end result in ps but its a pain in the ass, or you can use plugins/actions that are also a pain in the ass.
A big advantage of Adobe products is their integration. They work well with each other which helps your workflow immensely.
Free software will in most cases always lag in this regard.
That said, there are far better alternatives to Photoshop other than GIMP. Pixelmator, Affinity Photo and now Sketch for UI work. I'm afraid free software lags far behind proprietary ones. The ability to modify it to your needs has not proven very helpful since most people who use it do not have the skills to modify it, do not have the resources to hire someone to do it for them. It is far easier to go for a proprietary solution.
GIMP doesn't develop quick enough or with enough input from artists and designers unlike say Krita. By the way, the people mentioning Krita as an alternative for GIMP or PS either have not used it or are unaware of the main focus of either software.
>>55581986
I make 80 dollars an hour as a graphic designer and video editor (and a lot of other graphic things) so paying 54 dollars a month for all the software I need plus a bunch of extra web hosting shit pays for itself in 45 minutes of use.
Also I'm a good goy that has this crazy idea that people who make tools that make me money deserve to get paid.
Finally gimp is a piece of shit. Photoshop, not even talking about all the other amazing software that's in my CC subscription too, is MILES ahead of it. Gimp can only catch up so far before being an outright illegal copy of photoshop.
>>55588411
Okay, i'm honest. I didn't know that, thanks anon.
>>55588646
It seems to me that is the same as selecting a color in PS and making a mask, which creates an alpha layer. Am I missing something?
>>55581486
It's scriptable
>>55588689
>4K
>spikes
well
>>55586146
lol nigga that's not vector drawing
>>55588689
Inkscape master race
>>55588689
if i was u making 80 dollars by hour doing photoshop, i would be rich.
>>55583003
>>55581986
>he doesn't pirate software
Good goy :^)
>>55582044
>GIMP is free as in i have the freedom to use it on Linux
What's going on today? There are literally ten or more threads bashing Linux and blatantly shilling Microsoft.
>>55581486
because adobe is trash.
They ass-fuck anyone who buys the non-subscription product, pay over a hundred dollars and don't get updates from adobe without a subscription.
The only patched photoshop is $1080 per decade and full of DRM garbage.
There's zero justification for the subscription model at all. Adobe just has a monopoly due to purchasing technology/patents from other companies so that they can abuse their customers.
Are you guys seriously this dense? You can easily just torrent photoshop. Which means it's all about preference.
>>55590965
You can torrent as many copies of Photoshop as you want, it's still only going to run on OS X and Wangblows
>>55581486
>Why do people even use GIMP?
Free software
Can run on GNU/Linux
Does not have an extremely shitty png extractor
Green is my pepper
>Aside from being freeware or whatever
Trolling confirmed
GIMP is not freeware, it is free software (free as in freedom)
>>55591018
In which case you can either virtualise windows or install it on a machine without access to Internet.
>>55584233
>photoshop is faster
kek
>>55590965
kys
>>55591115
>being mad for no reason
>>55591146
I have a reason.
>>55591160
>still not giving a reason
What are you, a woman? Raging randomly without giving any reason accomplishes nothing.
>>55591174
>>still not giving a reason
I would if you asked for it.
>Raging
I do not think you know what raging means
>>55588708
Yes
Selecting a color in ps doesnt work the same and you'll have to use several steps to get the same result
https://www.photoshopgurus.com/forum/gimp-plus/49089-photoshop-substitute-process-gimps-color-alpha-function.html
>>55591214
I'll bite. What is the reason?
>>55591315
Photoshop is not free software.
>>55583003
BTFO
>>55591339
>torrent
It was implied you can get it for free?
>>55591387
You don't belong on /g/ or on 4chan in general if you do not know what free software means. Free software is about freedom, not price.
>>55591018
>what is wine
>>55591396
You have the freedom to use it even if you pirate it.
>>55582044
>Just steal Photoshop.
This. You literally have no excuse if you're a Windows/Mac user.
>b-but muh letter--
VPN's. Get one.
>>55591430
I fail to see what this has anything to do with what I said. You still do not have its source, freedom to modify it and freedom to distribute it.
>>55587243
BTFO by
>>55587978
>>55591452
As if 80% of /g/, or 90% of photoshop users would know what to do with its source. I'm not saying I disagree, but it gets the job done for most people with no drawbacks other than closed source.
>>55591612
>nobody's gonna know what to do with the source anyway!
>>55591612
the most important thing that could result is it being ported
Honestly, this is probably the biggest tangible benefit -- free software means you can bring software to platforms the author never considered.
Instead of having to emulate a copy of Windows and install PS in there, you can run it natively on whatever the fuck OS you want.
GIMP's source is a clusterfuck and no one wants to/knows how to really touch it too much either (otherwise, a lot of the glaringly retarded issues it has would be dealt with already), but it builds and runs on any system that anyone's cared to look at recently.
>>55591314
>https://www.photoshopgurus.com/forum/gimp-plus/49089-photoshop-substitute-process-gimps-color-alpha-function.html
that's just a halfass blending mode operation
>>55582906
No, it's not a "major differnce" you retard, unless you want to modify GIMP itself. Which doesn't matter for 99.999999% of all GIMP users.
>if my Ganooh overlord said so, it's important
>>55581486
I've tried to use gimp, but holy fuck I hate everything it does or rather tries to do.
gimps biggest problem is an awful UI, its next biggest problem is lack of support from 3rd party tools/plugins.
Everyone makes shit to work in photoshop, not gimp.
>>55591655
>>55591982
But where's the profit then? If free software was that good we'd be living under communism.
>>55592024
Multiple steps in ps vs one step in gimp
>>55592112
This is more a matter of Baby Duck Syndrome..
If you're used to Photoshop, you'll find GIMP wierd, but if you take your time to learn it, it's not inferior to PS for many tasks. Just different.
Also it's free.. Nobody thinks GIMO is superior to PS, but it's good enough for a lot of stuff. Most people won't use the full potential of GIMP.
>>55581486
I use GIMP to descreen scans from album covers using FFT
The PS plugin costs money, and even though GIMP is limited to process 8 bit images it's still good enough
>NOBODY USES PINTA
REEEEEEEEEEEEE
USE PINTA YOU FAGGOTS
OR GWENVIEW
>>55585365
jesus fuck, you opened my eyes
>>55592135
You can charge for free software. Some examples off the top of my head are Synergy and Red Hat.
>>55588588
lotta ignorance and incompetence.
But it's more GIMP's fault for being so unintuitive.
>>55581486
>freeware or whatever
fuck off
>>55581692
Literally none of that is true. GIMP runs like it was intentionally designed to be awful.
>>55595705
GIMP only sucks because it makes even the simplest tasks like cutting something out of an image extremely difficult. Improve the user experience and people will stop whining about it.
the cancer of /g/:
>gimp sucks
>computer science is dead (lets not improve gimp or anything)
>give up
>use photoshop
>complain about being cucked by adobe licensing
Life is what you make it.
>>55581486
>freeware
>>55592066
Whether you personally use it or not, it's still a major difference.
>>55595723
Empower yourself and value your Freedom and quit whining about life. Otherwise these threads are nothing but ESPN-tier shitposts.
>what can it do that Photoshop can't
be scripted in scheme
>>55581486
>Why do people even use Photoshop? What can it do that GIMP can't? (Aside from being industry standard or whatever)
>>55581486
anyone that says gimp is better is outright lying.
I get it if you use it because you support free software but the fact is, photoshop is the best.
Gimp respects your freedom
>>55595961
If only it respected my time and energy as well.
>>55595972
>i'm too lazy to learn different keyboard shortcuts cause i was raised by babby photoshop
ok
>>55581486
its in the name,so they can gimp themselves
as someone who's used gimp for actual work, it works well enough. I never noticed missing anything and being able to script it in scheme was nice. unfortunately there was a bug on the OSX version related to libpng that caused some issues but I worked around that. also an OSX specific file handle leak that caused it to not be able to create new files after a certain number of them. but that was also able to be worked around.
>>55595977
it's always surreal when people reply with this. it's like you don't understand the criticism. is that the issue?
>>55581486
You could use the free option but why would you want to GIMP yourself like that?
>>55595972
That's because you're too busy shitposting about it. Free software can be improved up to perfection. You'd prefer to talk shit over making it happen.
go look at the site or ask the people that work on it. ask how they do usability studies.
usability studies are an important component of shipping usable software. it's supposed to be part of design. not "design" in the "should we make this button shiny or flat" sense, but in the "does the interface allow the user to make a mental model of how this system works that's useful and not broken" sense.
GIMP's developers don't seem to understand any of that. open source developers don't seem to, either.
if someone can point to any GOMS or NASA-TLX or any sort of heuristic evaluations or like really anything that vaguely resembles standard UX testing in open source software, i'd really love to see it. i've interned at tech companies that produce proprietary software, and i can tell you they have teams that think about this shit. do OSS teams?
>>55596000
(I did submit bug reports for these by the way, didn't have the time to look into them myself though)
>>55591099
>>55581692
>samefag still with no proof that GIMP is less than shit and doesn't actually run like dogshit.
>>55583020
>Go back to India, Rajeesh
>implying Indians don't like using shitty knockoffs
They're the kings of low quality tech work, of course they'd love GIMP.
>>55596018
Ohhhhhh man, brutal! If only the developers would have seen it coming! Man they must feel so bad right now for choosing that name. You're such a savage!
>>55596060
Thanks buddy. All this effort is appreciated because it's a lot more work than what that majority will do.
>>55585154
There's lots, but, like the internet, in the late 90's/early 2000's the industry had a huge variety with lots of products all getting decent attention (Corel, PSP, PS, etc), then the industry started focusing on just two products, just like the internet is something ridiculous like 85% of ALL traffic between five companies.
PSP and Corel for instance are still around, but are certainly not nearly as popular as they were 15 years ago.
>>55596072
I think your confused. Dogshit is not a computer program.
>>55587028
>-Layer effects
I have been waiting fucking 20 fucking years for fucking layer effects in GIMP. Those stupid fucks. At least it only took like 15 years for window management to not be total shit, right?
>>55587748
>GIMP is lightweight, free, open source, and can do anything photoshop can.
Congratulations, you know how to draw a box and apply a filter.
Employed person here. I use GIMP for rescaling and cropping images. It does that well and it's FREE.
>>55588689
>MILES ahead of it.
You mean decades. Seriously. There's shit that photoshop did in the 90's that GIMP still doesn't do.
>>55589687
>if i was u making 80 dollars by hour doing photoshop, i would be rich.
You'd be surprised at how that's not true in many areas of the US.
Also it's a bit different when you're self-employed.
Not that that kind of money is bad money, but it's not get-rich-instantly money.
>>55596051
>"does the interface allow the user to make a mental model of how this system works that's useful and not broken" sense
>>55596051
>i can tell you
>i've never worked a day in software development and am talking shit
>>55596072
>tech work
have you even read some code and wrote any valued report thereof?
>>55581486
>It's a /g/ defends an archaic, barely usable legacy code abortion just because it is "free" (as in "Freedom") episode
i've used both for the same shit everyone else on 4chan does
they're both fine
>>55588689
>Overpaid for worthless work thanks to the copyright scam
>Supports the copyright scam
No surprise here
>>55596385
>copyright scam
>people aren't entitled to intellectual property that they create
>>55596401
You're entitled to keep the only copy and sell it as a service.
You're not entitled to my copy just because you made the original. It's my property, keep your feelies off it.
If you need to ask "GIMP vs Photoshop" it's pretty clear you're not using either to make money which puts you well out of Adobe's intended market.
>>55588526
>lurk moar
Why do people say this? Its an anonymous image board, nothing matters here faggot
>>55582169
>>What can it do that Photoshop can't?
>Everything you want since it's free software.
>Scripting.
Oh great. I was just talking about how I'd love to have to learn how to use a new scripting environment just to apply masks to layer groups or to add a non-destructive outer stroke to a text layer.
>>55596428
Have fun finding a job in IT that doesn't, at least indirectly, profit off selling intellectual property. If your kind of asshole was running the world, we'd all be flipping burgers and coding shitty CLI software in our spare time in hope that GNU/Linux becomes barely usable a few centuries from now.
>>55596366
More like I don't like it when shills and retards unite and hate on community projects for no logical reason.
>>55596444
Board culture and lurking is important so that newfags don't shit up everything. The phrase lurk moar has been around for ages for a reason.
So which traditional professions don't make their own tools? Painters used to make their own paints and brushes, blacksmiths make their own anvils and hammers.
Hell, even modern scientists write their own data processing scripts and (real) programmers write a good portion of their own dev environment.
I guess most modern professionals buy a lot of things since it's impractical to make everything from scratch, but renting your tools? You're basically a prostitute getting half your pay docked for every customer.
>>55596131
>At least it only took like 15 years for window management to not be total shit, right?
You would get a heart attack if you checked Gnome/KDE/other open-sauce trackers.
There are patches on these trackers that implement major functions and they never get merged, or they get dropped because of dumb neckbeards.
It's a disgusting community/world.
gimp is good enough for me
i used photoshop for like 15 years
it makes me wonder why gimp developers and community doesn't do anything to switch at least casual users to gimp
casual users like photoshop just because it has way more tutorials
as usual everyone says gimp is shit and dont explain anything because they only crop pictures
>>55598564
than do so yourself
tell me why should I switch to gimp
>>55598618
it free and better than photo$hop
>>55598628
>photo$hop
haha holy shit that's so f*cking epic! lulz, gr8
>>55598628
>>55598564
>dont explain anything
How many Linux/Gimp users can honestly say they have used any PS since CS2 for more than 5 minutes and still actually prefer to use gimp?
I really mean actually prefer, not because bastardise server OS cant run it in wine so you are forced to use gimp.
>>55598618
1. Starting with the most obvious and possibly most important, GIMP is free. Yes free, no charge, nada, zip, zero.
2. GIMP is a much smaller install, about 20x smaller then Photoshop. Not only does the install go much quicker, but it takes up far less hard drive making it the perfect image editing software for laptops and netbooks where hard drive space may be at a premium.
3. Photoshop is extremely resource intensive, it will run on older hardware but it’s not optimized to and will be sluggish and slow. GIMP on the other hand is amazingly fast and stable. It will install on nearly any hardware running Mac, Windows or even Unix!
4. Gimp is more user friendly. Photoshop was actually created as a piece of software intended for graphics and photographic editing, never just digital photo editing. Because of this it’s bloated with features and functions most photographs don’t want or need.
5. Open source architecture means anyone can modify the core code and develop plugins and new features, you don’t need to be approved by Adobes’ development team.
6. Batch processing through automated actions is far superior in GIMP. Because photographers often need to do repeatable actions to large groups of images, this feature alone is worth its weight in gold.
7. Open, edit and save Photoshop’s native PSD file format with GIMP. If you’re editing for someone else, it doesn’t matter if they’ve started the job in Photoshop because GIMP can handle the file format.
8. Free upgrades. Not only is GIMP free to download, install and use, upgrades are free! Photoshop upgrades, which happen on average every 12-18 months can cost as much as $200, on top of the original purchase price!
>>55598679
me at least, i enjoy installing it without hassle and works just fine
>>55598702
http://www.lightstalking.com/10-reasons-gimp-is-better-than-photoshop/
Nice job shilling your blog.
>>55582911
Actually, it's had this in its SVN tree for over two years now.
>>55598679
Did you know that some people actually prefer MS Paint over Photoshop?
Do you know why?
Because people have different needs for the image editing program.
If GIMP does everything I need... I can't think a single reason why I wouldn't use it over Photoshop.
>>55598702
>Starting with the most obvious and possibly most important, GIMP is free. Yes free, no charge, nada, zip, zero.
a. not everything has to be free
b. torrent
c. creative cloud
b. buy it
Not gonna bother with your copy/paste garbage.
>>55598769
>not everything has to be free
true but it doesnt hurt
>torrent
illegal
>c. creative cloud
costs money
>buy
costs money
>>55598733
you linked it, not me
>>55586782
Under-fucking-rated post.
Anyone claiming Gimp (or Inskape in the case of vector graphics) is "better" or even good enough has no clue about prepress and only thinks in terms of editing Pepe images for the web.
>>55598822
>illegal
>>55598880
if you don't have money to buy photoshop you don't probably need it
>>55598902
>>55598822
>torrent == illegal
>Microsoft taking your data with win10 == legal
Get yourself together
>>55598702
1. Torrent
2. Still isn't a problem for desktop users or anyone who doesn't have a shit-mid tier laptop
3. Agreed on the gimp part, but I had no problem running photoshop on ddr2 2GB RAM with integrated graphics, which means anything better than that will definitely run it well (literally anything made in the last 5 years)
4. But it still has all the features you might need. If you want just simple you can always use paint.NET
5. Open source severely harms financial gain of the company because it's competition can copy it. Although I still agree it's better, it's just not how capitalism works
6., 7. Agreed
8. Again, torrent, unless you live in Germany or any other country where ISP's are retards who charge you for torrenting. And even then you can actually still download, you're just forbidden to upload/seed. Or just use a VPN.
Photoshop works for a lot of people, so it's just a matter of preference.
>>55591314
Colour to Alpha is the only thing that I use GIMP for. For everything else, PS is necessary unless you're artistically retarded like /g/ and only need to draw a line.
>>55595661
On Windows. On Lunix it runs great.
>>55596011
You're not criticizing the software. You're just saying "herp derp different" because you learnt Photoshop before trying to learn Gimp.
>>55598855
yeah most people don't need anything more than that.
Side note, Paint.net is really good.
But lacks a blur tool or related functionality because they didn't realize how important that was like 10 years ago when they started writing it.
Tons of addons/plugins, it's fast and pretty light weight.
...aaaaand lacks a very important feature.
>>55598769
>>55598822
>>55598880
It's about freedom you niggers
>>55596401
Kill yourself and fuck off /g/
>>55599527
Blur is implemented as an effect. You have to select where you want to blur. It's true that a dedicated tool would be much easier, but the functionality isn't entirely missing.
http://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/EffectsBlursMenu.html
almost all my PCs belong to my company. I can't use pirated software on them and I wont pay for PS if I have to edit a few things a day.
Also I've used gimp for fifteen years now, it's rather good, few quirks here and there but good enough for me
