@nixCraft see, the problem is that gimp is so underwhelming in comparison that people *pay* to use photoshop.

@nixCraft 280? That looks very low to me.

@nixCraft Some AI shit too

@nixCraft and a proprietary license agreement...

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and we use the complete Affinity Package for all of our pubishing stuff (except vellum for interiors). that's a one-time purchase that's really nice, with new versions every few years to buy, with occasional sales.

@nixCraft Gimp does not force you to surrender your privacy to Microsoft or Apple.

And you can read the documentation without internet connection.

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I use both. I prefer Photoshop because its good, its powerful and it has consistent professional format standards. But I despise Adobe's business model, so I use GIMP and just swear at it lots cuz I've got 25 year's experience with Adobe stuff:/

@nixCraft given that you pay to an asshole company instead of pirating, that's what they deserve
For me, even if I go to Europe or the US & I have 100% the ability to buy those asshole software like adobe or m$ products, I will subscribe to the best VPN service and activate illegaly, they totally deserve it & practically begged me to do it

@nixCraft and GIMP has a color-to-alpha function that Photoshop has not.

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Used cracked photoshop since i was 16 yo. GIMP is great and you can do everything that photoshop does. The only thing that keeps me into photoshop is the optimisation, way better rendering and way faster. And so fkin used to photoshop. A long time ago was a rumor that adobe let cracked open to confort themself on the market. If its right, it worked fkin good.

@nixCraft gimp has one of the worst UI/UX ever seen in a software. I love open source and linux, but sadly there's no software like photoshop on linux.

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@nixCraft while I use gimp I have to admit that many features are not there. Ex. the whole CMYK professional printing pipeline (colour profiles, offset, channels management, etc ) is missing.
But I agree that for the 95% of the people gimp would suffice (ex. for me that I work on an RGB pipeline)!

@nixCraft or 16GB RAM?