The main things that I find bad about gimp (just my opinion, maybe im mad/doing it wrong)
1) The many-windows gui design - less said about that the better, esp when you have a large image that takes up the whole screen, you have to window switch just to change a tool! 2) I dont know if it is me... but cutting and pasting into/out of layers is a real chore. I seem to get stuck with a floating selection which doesnt do what i expect. Layers sometimes do not select, sometimes the selected layer changes. Basically I find any kind of non-resize image operations to be like fighting a gimp 3) In photoshop, if you need the zoom tool, you just press 'Z' crop is another one key shortcut. In gimp the same operation involves several clicks to cycle through each window (click main window, click zoom, click brush options, click 'allow to resize window', then you can use the tool) 4) Typing, editing text - dont even get me started on that! Having said all that, I use the gimp for all my image manipulation requirements (which is mostly basic digicam stuff)... but only because there isnt much choice out there On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 15:19, Pascal Terjan wrote: > Mike wrote: > > If you have ever tried to use gimp for serious work - you will > > realise how cumbersome and not up to the job it is.... sorry to say > > that, but it is true... even the user interface in gimp takes a while > > to get used to, its layers are a nightmare to use compared to > > potatoshop > Maybe you're right for people that start with photoshop... > I started image manipulation with paint shop pro, each time I tryied to > use photoshop I lost hours trying to do simple stuff. Then I switched to > Linux and since the first time I ran GIMP I achieved what I wanted quite > easily. I really prefer it's user interface. > For the layers, could you explain the problem ? > > There is one major thing missing in GIMP : you keep only the result of > filters and cannot modify parameters of the ones applied before. Except > for that, I have no blame for GIMP. >
