Fuck AI

I actually don't do much real photo editing (I sketch and use Krita for such) but doesn't GIMP have cosmetic pack plugins that change the UI significantly if you desire? (It's been a minute since I perused the plugin library) ((RIP Glimpse for attempting to change the name from GIMP for those who wanted to use it around prudes))

The thing that I think always bugged me personally trying to use it in comparison to something like Krita or Paint net is the lack of a dedicated shape tool. I see the various methods mentioned about shape tools, let's be realistic, people want to have adjustable shapes [squares/rectangles, diamonds, arrows, circles] and the select tool is a bit out of step for User eXperience usage.

Also the quality of brushes in GIMP bugged me as well, but that can again be arguably fixed by plugins, but again if you're doing detailed sketches you probably want Krita or PaintToolSai.

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.

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 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

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

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

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?

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.

You named it GIMP. It's a joke to YOU, too.

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

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.