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The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe
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If you think Canva won't pull the same shit Adobe does once they have the market dominance to do so, you're deluding yourself.
The only future-proof, user-respecting, dignified alternative is FOSS.
If only gimp wasn't garbage.. Tbh I'm also kinda wondering how Affinity did pull off the move they made with their 3 programs turning into one, at the same time redoing so much of it.am And why foss can't do it.
Of course there's money and closed source is probably messier in a lot of places than foss is (or at least targets to be), but is that it?
Unironic question: is it possible to explain to a non-artistic, non-graphic-design techie like me what makes GIMP so inadequate? I hear this refrain a lot but have never heard an explanation for why it falls SO short that it's not a viable alternative for most people.
The UI feels quite haphazard, it doesn't follow the same approach to UI like other drawing tools and it feels like it's trying to reinvent the wheel when people are already used to certain areas on the screen being used for certain things, and personally the UI scaling looked quite rough last I looked at it. It just gave me the vibe of a programmer made tool to have something graphic to edit things rather than one a designer spent time r&d-ing from the bottom up.