My use case: I use GIMP for its mult-layer features, creating images from scratch and I want to save all my work in this multi-layer format (XCF) but I need to send draft versions and the finished image to friends/customers/websites etc as a flat image (e.g. an exported PNG)
So the new interface significantly helps me work much more effectively (If I want to edit a jpg photo I normally use other tools, though I probably only cut/crop/red eye so hardly a fair comparision) Paul On 3 May 2012 04:48, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Jonathan Kamens wrote: > > > It is certainly important for the authors and developers of an > application > > to know who their targeted audience is. > > > > I'm curious, though... Do you know what percentage of the people who > > actually use GIMP now are part of that target audience? > > This is simply not the point. > > Let's face it: GIMP is mostly misused. People got used to it, because > if they needed a free app with few extra features, they simply had no > choice. Especially on Linux. > > If Pinta was released 5 years earlier, the amount of GIMP users on > Linux would probably be a half of what it is now. > > Still with me? > > The aim is to meet the demands of professionals. Users have a choice: > migrate to simpler apps like Pinta, migrate to complex apps with > familiar workflow such as Krita, or stick to GIMP and adapt their > workflows. > > The adaptation is really not as bad as you are trying to picture it. I > know it, because I've gone through this two years ago, and I'm neither > supersmart nor extraflexible. > > > Also, it seems to me from the stuff at the URLs you sent that the > potential > > size of the user base for the audience you are targeting is much smaller > > than the potential user base of more "casual" image editors like me. Do I > > understand correctly that you are consciously aiming to design the > > application to be attractive primarily to that much smaller user base? > > It's a matter of perspective. As far as I can tell, users who try to > think and act big gravitate to more sophisticated software. That > automatically expands the audience (far) beyond hi-end users. But the > development focus is still on hi-end users, because focus is > important. > > Alexandre Prokoudine > http://libregraphicsworld.org > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > gimp-user-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > -- Paul http://www.readiescards.co.uk
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