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Comment by maaarghk | Hacker News Reader

because GIMP sucks, maybe, and also because most people are required to interoperate with the rest of the profession. i am very disappointed that photoshop et al cannot be run under WINE :(

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I have done/still do complex composition and editing in both GIMP and Photoshop, and there is really no missing features in GIMP. If you go into using GIMP expecting it to be PShop, you will always be disappointed, but in reality that is only a good thing.

I use GIMP regularly and find it more than enough for all my needs.

I don't agree with you that it sucks.

For sure. If one (and myself included) use the to nicety of Photoshop Illustrator GIMP's user interface is left much to be desired. However, from a open platform perspective, do I really want many hours of editing work to be tight to a cloud platform to a proprietary format?

Think not just about now or one year from now, but 10 years, 20, 50 years from now, 100 years? Open format and open source software is much desired for creation based software. There is the paradox of the making money for the open source software, and I don't have an answer for that. Seems like some kind of sliding scale payment will be needed for these software. May be also some kind of sliding scale payment for eventual money earned form the software up to a limit.

It doesn't suck. It has nearly all features you could possibly need, and then some. People who expect GIMP to be identical to Photoshop suck.

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