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GIMP is legendary. One of the first FOSS projects I ever used. I pirated Photoshop soon after trying it.

Krita (https://github.com/KDE/krita | https://krita.org/en/) is a more intuitive UX imo.

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Krita is better in any conceivable way.

Krita is great, but you can't print in it.

GIMP is the only image program I have seen on Linux that shows a preview when printing, and it lets the user freely scale the image to get the desired size on paper.

Can’t I just choose any feature available in Gimp and not in Krita and disprove your point. Sorry if I’m missing obvious hyperbole.

Not if those features don't provide value. Just having a feature isn't necessarily a benefit if that feature doesn't work, or doesn't work well, or leaves the user frustrated.

A feature that doesn't work well can still provide value.

I haven't run into a feature in the GIMP that didn't work well.

I didn't say it did.

You can, but that would be inconceivable.

You keep using that word...

I use GIMP as a software engineer in game development for modifying assets created by artists. My workflow is typically cropping / resizing, merging images, repositioning, running batch scripts, etc. I never touch a paint brush, but do all sorts of other modifications.

GIMP is perfect for my workflow. Simple tasks like resizing selected regions is a chore with Krita. And did I mention that GIMP is scriptable? I've been using GIMP professionally since 2008.

They even have a healing tool I like to use: https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/tools/smart_patch...

Nice.

EDIT: I tried the heal tool, it's pretty shit :( Seems to clone random parts which kind of fit, but the tool edges are always visible. Resynthesizer for GIMP works much better (and Adobe's stuff works very well of course).

running "Curves" on a photo?

Krita can do that though https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/filters/adjust.ht...

> One of the first FOSS projects I ever used. I pirated Photoshop soon after trying it.

Oh… okay.

Did you also steal a car right after you learned how to drive?

You wouldn't download a car

"You know what? I would steal a car. If it was as easy as, like, touching the car and then 30 seconds later I own the car. And like, I would steal a car if by stealing the car, the person who owned the car they got to keep the car. And uh, I would also steal a car if no one I had ever met had ever bought a car before in their whole lives." -- Mindy Kaling

I had no idea who this person was so I searched her name. Apparently she grew up in Massachusetts, went to elite private schools, and became a Hollywood actress and writer. Somehow I have a hard time believing she had to pirate Photoshop just to barely scrape by at any point in her life.

In addition to being an actress and a writer, she's also a comedian. This is likely a joke making fun of a time when companies wanted to enforce draconian and disproportionate punishments for doing something fairly mundane.

As an engineer who grew up having to hone my skills using questionable software, I support this joke. If you're focusing on her background; you're focusing on the wrong thing.

See also: "Don't copy that floppy".

She didn't say she had to, or even that she did. She's just arguing that the analogy between software piracy and auto theft is specious, and she's right.

She also works for media studios who would see themselves as the poor victims of digital piracy. Instead of dismissing her viewpoint based on her status, maybe try addressing the point that stealing a car is actually not at all the same as copying software or digital media, and arguments that they really are equivalent miss the point and lead to pretty dumb laws.

Her most famous role was on The Office, which constituted a significant portion of Netflix's bandwidth (7% is one hand-wavy estimate based on related data), and Netflix has been estimated to have been an even more significant portion of worldwide Internet traffic (25% - 35% in some data). They're hand-wavy numbers but I would be confident that the show Mindy Kaling is best known for having written and acted in has easily made up over 1-2% of global Internet traffic at times. I wouldn't say she's entirely divorced from the issue of digital media piracy.

Also it's from a stand up comedy routine. It's okay to laugh in life.

I would if I could and, now apparently as cars are going to subscriptions for everything, I might eventually need warez for the car.

Cruising down the street with my sweet keygen music, thinking not everything that results because of proprietary software is evil.

Still impressive how GIMP was so special, it makes you download competition illegally.

No, stealing cars and trying to drive them was how we learnt to drive. Driving lessons aren't cheap!

I dunno ...for me they were the cost of a copy of GTA III

https://youtu.be/IeTybKL1pM4

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