<story><title>GIMP development - What’s the point?</title><url>https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2016-September/msg00019.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomtomtom777</author><text>For professional use, how &lt;i&gt;does&lt;/i&gt; modern GIMP compare to modern PS?</text></item><item><author>pmoriarty</author><text>People whining about GIMP not being as good as PS don&amp;#x27;t appreciate what life was like on Linux before GIMP existed, or how primitive GIMP was when it first came out.&lt;p&gt;GIMP has advanced leaps and bound over what it once was.&lt;p&gt;I remember for ages PS fans were complaining about how GIMP had a multiple window layout, and how unnecessarily complex that was, and they wanted a single window layout.  So the &lt;i&gt;volunteers&lt;/i&gt; who work on GIMP eventually came out with a single window layout.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not a PS user, but I heard that around that time PS changed to a multi-window layout.  Whether that&amp;#x27;s true or not, now I hear complaints from some users that GIMP is not any good because it doesn&amp;#x27;t have a multi-window layout (not realizing that changing it to multi-window layout is as simple as unchecking &amp;quot;Single-window mode&amp;quot; under the &amp;quot;Windows&amp;quot; menu).  Give me a break!&lt;p&gt;Some people will never be satisfied and will never appreciate the hundreds or thousands of man hours of &lt;i&gt;free&lt;/i&gt; work that GIMP developers have poured in to this product.&lt;p&gt;Could it be improved?  Of course!  Anything can.  Should they strive to make it better?  Yes.  Feature requests and help are great.  But indignant insults coming from people who didn&amp;#x27;t pay for the development of the product, who don&amp;#x27;t contribute any of their own time to make it better, and who clearly don&amp;#x27;t appreciate the massive achievement that GIMP is just take the cake.  GIMP developers must have skins of steel to put up with this crap year in and year out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>legitster</author><text>Not even close. GIMP was actually the first editor I learned on. But the minute you start using Photoshop it&amp;#x27;s pretty apparent that you can never go back.&lt;p&gt;On paper they may look similar, but GIMP in no way touches the amount of options and features available to a designer out of the box in a pro software. Even just manipulating a single asset seems to take twice the work in GIMP. Imagine a PS file that is hundreds of layers deep.&lt;p&gt;And last I used it, support for anything print related was abysmal in GIMP. I don&amp;#x27;t even have to think about color profiles in Photoshop, but GIMP gave me the sense I had to build everything myself.&lt;p&gt;GIMP is kind of in this ugly duckling space where I feel the feature set is not acceptable for a professional designer, but the UI is too overwhelming for a non-designer. And you can tell by the quality of work that the average user is either pretty amateurish, or who design is the second thought.</text></comment>
<story><title>GIMP development - What’s the point?</title><url>https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2016-September/msg00019.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomtomtom777</author><text>For professional use, how &lt;i&gt;does&lt;/i&gt; modern GIMP compare to modern PS?</text></item><item><author>pmoriarty</author><text>People whining about GIMP not being as good as PS don&amp;#x27;t appreciate what life was like on Linux before GIMP existed, or how primitive GIMP was when it first came out.&lt;p&gt;GIMP has advanced leaps and bound over what it once was.&lt;p&gt;I remember for ages PS fans were complaining about how GIMP had a multiple window layout, and how unnecessarily complex that was, and they wanted a single window layout.  So the &lt;i&gt;volunteers&lt;/i&gt; who work on GIMP eventually came out with a single window layout.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not a PS user, but I heard that around that time PS changed to a multi-window layout.  Whether that&amp;#x27;s true or not, now I hear complaints from some users that GIMP is not any good because it doesn&amp;#x27;t have a multi-window layout (not realizing that changing it to multi-window layout is as simple as unchecking &amp;quot;Single-window mode&amp;quot; under the &amp;quot;Windows&amp;quot; menu).  Give me a break!&lt;p&gt;Some people will never be satisfied and will never appreciate the hundreds or thousands of man hours of &lt;i&gt;free&lt;/i&gt; work that GIMP developers have poured in to this product.&lt;p&gt;Could it be improved?  Of course!  Anything can.  Should they strive to make it better?  Yes.  Feature requests and help are great.  But indignant insults coming from people who didn&amp;#x27;t pay for the development of the product, who don&amp;#x27;t contribute any of their own time to make it better, and who clearly don&amp;#x27;t appreciate the massive achievement that GIMP is just take the cake.  GIMP developers must have skins of steel to put up with this crap year in and year out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PeCaN</author><text>It doesn&amp;#x27;t. GIMP&amp;#x27;s support for nondestructive editing is very primitive, which might be the biggest issue. In terms of tools PS is far more comprehensive and flexible.&lt;p&gt;GIMP is more like Paint.NET than Photoshop.</text></comment>