If I had no choice but to use 20 years old Photoshop vs 2018 GIMP, I'd pick the 20 years old software.

I still remember how it felt to use the 5.0 release of Photoshop as if it was yesterday's. That's because Photoshop stopped being an overgrown paint-with-layers program since the 1996 release. Just because something is free doesn't make it good or worth considering.Īs a tool for producing content, the GIMP really is more linux's MS paint than photoshop. I know it's free software developed on some hobby developer's free time but that does not make it immune from criticism. Opacity is applied to every pixel in the layer, so it acts like layer-wide transparency setting. Picasa, a free (as in beer, not as in freedom) photo library management and quick photo editing tool that was immensely popular on Windows before Google dropped it, had fast non destructive image editing.Įditing anything in GIMP feels like a painful process that allows no mistake and every single process, even just drawing a damn circle (one that doesn't have heavy artifacts by the way), takes more clicks or keyboard shortcut presses than it ever should. Layers can have their own opacity setting. Draw a picture together with your friends in real-time over the internet in your browser. That means handling stress, getting good womens health care, and nurturing yourself. The venerable shareware Paintshop Pro, one of the first popular Photoshop clone, grew that feature. A collaborative painting application by Magma. In 20 years, almost every single serious tool for image manipulation has understood that non destructive editing is at the core of productivity. Photoshop had massive, productivity boosting features like Adjustment Layers, since the 4th release, in 1996!! simple non destructive effects were added to the list with 5.0 in 1998. I agree that GIMP is a Linux's Photoshop, not a Linux's MS Paint

Layers on ms paint