Comments on: Gimp Sucks.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:31:18 +0000

I’m trying to do the simplest tasks and they are nearly impossible in GIMP! It’s so frustrating!

By: Lachlan Phillips

Lachlan Phillips — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:36:09 +0000

Well put. If the Open Source community doesn’t fix these issues (and issues like them) then they don’t deserve widespread adoption.

This should be priority.

By: dave

dave — Tue, 31 May 2011 13:34:39 +0000

agreed, the annoyances in gimp are so many I will actually launch a VM just to use adobe products instead of this piece of shit software.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 29 May 2011 05:00:18 +0000

“Gimp is [...] easy on memory”

BAHAHAHAHA

Try having 50-100 layers. Then you’ll see how “easy” GIMP is.

By: Keegan

Keegan — Mon, 23 May 2011 23:43:17 +0000

I’m so glad that other people agree with me. I pretty much hate everything about GIMP.

By: Martian Warfare

Martian Warfare — Sun, 15 May 2011 09:56:28 +0000

Lately I found out things that are so horrible and stupid in GIMP, it’s unbearable. I hope that someday the not so expensive PSE will have Paths included, then I will immediately invest my money there.

By: Martian Warfare

Martian Warfare — Thu, 12 May 2011 20:37:27 +0000

I want to apologize. I have spend a lot of time with GIMP lately and found out that:

Almost any features of photoshop are available in GIMP too – BUT it is arranged in a way that you can waste a lot of time to achieve the same things like in PS. E.g. the realtime preview in GIMP is very slow, if you got any at all. This forces you to reinvent the wheel each time once you’ve made an error. The important Bevel/Emboss Layer properties are only available via plugin which sux. They should be made native to GIMP. One advantage however is GIMP shows you how all these “cool” Layer Effects from PS are made.
I would even go so far to say that: I think you could learn more about image processing in GIMP than in PS. Besides the menus in GIMP are more logically arranged, e.g. if you want to change the layer size, picture size, look for colors: in GIMP you exactly know which of the main menus you need to click – but in PS this doesn’t apply.

This however is not enough to make the use of GIMP much more comfortable, neither superior. The usability lacks enormously. Have you ever tried to create warped text etc. – it works in GIMP too, but the way to achieve this with Paths etc. is horrible.

GIMP needs a lot of work for the User Interface, how things are arranged, and realtime previews. THe potential is there, but I’m afraid no one cares to make it userfriendly

By: B-Ro

B-Ro — Wed, 11 May 2011 20:11:04 +0000

@irlandes:

I have never used Photoshop. I have only used GIMP. And, I can still tell that GIMP sucks terribly, because I am smart enough to understand how things *should* behave, and GIMP does not behave that way.

By: teel deer

teel deer — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:17:35 +0000

Sure.. as soon as YOU spare US from your “but GIMP is better!” mantra.

By: irlandes

irlandes — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:13:13 +0000

I have been using Linux since 1999. I have noted several things. 80 year old grandma’s can use Linux, but the best Windows experts can’t, and that is no coincidence. Once a person learns something really well, it’s very hard to learn something different, well. Ditto for PS vs. GIMP. Professionals have posted on Linux forums that they use GIMP in their professional shops. Three or so years ago, a high school photo teacher in Australia started half his students on GIMP and half on PS. Halfway through he switched them and the screams of rage were the same from both groups. So, I am not surprised a PS expert does not like GIMP. You don’t like GIMP, don’t use GIMP, but please spare us the whining and childish insults.