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.

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

Yes. Yes, you are a joke to me.

Why yes.

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?

To me the funny thing about these online squabbles is the people insisting gimp is somehow good. It is not, it has never been - it is an appalling embarrassment of a tool. Sure, a programmer who doesn't really know anything about professional imaging can use it to make a couple icons, but if you want to do any form of professional work, for-fucking-get it. It's a joke and it always has been a joke.

I was a professional game developer/producer for over 20+ years and gimp has ALWAYS been the laughing stock.

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

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

TBF I think certain feature requests in GIMP have been backlogged for 15 years or so. Like a timeline for animating in, for example.