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> GIMP is lacking in ... its selection tools

Could you please elaborate? Is this about fast selection of complex and semi-transparent objects (e.g. hair)?

> have rendering glitches in their antialiasing code that gives everything a green tint on my machines

This is a Cairo issue though. See here and further: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/8455#note_15219...

Yes, hair specifically is understandable but other complex objects are just more finicky to select in GIMP, and using those selection tools has a higher friction. I often find myself fiddling with tool settings in GIMP, and those tool options panels are painful to adjust.

Regarding rendering, wherever the issue is in the stack, it's been over a decade and it's killing GIMP's usability for an extremely basic task, regardless of whose fault it is.

The Paint Select tool in 2.99 was one of the attempts to make selecting objects simple. Unfortunately, it's unfinished and the original developer is no longer active.

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