But it is very difficult to make professional grade designs/templates/mockups with gimp (i would venture impossible but im sure someone could do it given enough discipline just as someone could build a httpserver in pure x86 if they really wanted to)
source: long time Gimp and Photoshop user, have worked professionally as a UX/UI/Graphic designer and software developer, and have really tried to get on board with gimp bc its open source, saves $50 monthly, and is hackable all unlike ps, it even has a lisp scripting language! I couldnt do it even with that much goodwill so i honestly cant see any less motivated designer using it.
EDIT: of course designers or a ps alternative might not be gimps market at all, and instead just normal end users, in which case gimp should definitely not be criticized. I think people (unjustly perhaps) want gimp to be a ps alternative for designers, its not. plain and simple.
You mean something like this? http://asm32.info/index.cgi?page=content/0_MiniMagAsm/index....
EDIT: Scratch that, it's just a CGI application and not an HTTP server on its own. Still, I think it's pretty neat :)
Glad to see you are back to GIMP for the first time since 1998.
And also to be fair, from my perspective that leaves GIMP only a few years behind other packages.
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=37912655f207306...
:)
I admit I use GIMP all the time, and have for years. It has a scripting language (ok just Lisp but with image-processing primitives) that I use to generate hundreds of images for card games. Photoshop has some arcane scripting ability but they sell it. My game club didn't want to pay, which is reasonable. So GIMP has been useful to me for years.
> I can't even begin to use GIMP unless my investment is preserved.
Now:
> I admit I use GIMP all the time, and have for years.
Huh?
That's quite all right. I'm not perfect either :)
> Gotta wonder why though, with a 'flatten' option already there, there's need for two versions of 'Open File', one that screws you and one that works
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that. Open File opennns files as new images. Open as Layer appends an image to an already opened one. Or am I reading you wrong?
On my windows 10 machine, I hope I'll be able to run Gimp. I don't know if the Linux Subsystem makes it possible. https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/4ea4w4/fyi_you_c...
That's not a complaint, I've no right to complain as I've not documented and raised the bugs.[1] I've just worked around them, which I appreciate is selfish.
But it works just as well/badly on 7, 8.1u1, and 10 in my experience. And it's still my go-to image editor for anything that Irfanview can't do.
[1]https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRME...
In an ideal world, gimp is retired and Krita becomes the Photoshop alternative and the community can focus on really getting behind Krita.
I've also used Krita of late, and that too is a very good piece of software worth checking out if you want to do photo-editing and digital painting.