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I photoshopped an image with Gimp.

I, as the Krita maintainer, hereby give everyone the right to verb the trademarked name "krita". Whether it's I "krittered that concept" or "I kritaed that sketch" -- it's fine!

The only thing you cannot do with the trademarked name krita is publish rip-off, spyware-laden versions in places like eBay.

Except Krita is a word in Swedish so good luck trademarking that one here :-)

Side note: Thank you for your work! My non-technical partner was able to create and print postcards that had to be in CMYK format, thanks to Krita. You made her very happy :-)

I gimped an image with Adobe Photoshop®

That sounds accurate.

such a terrible name

Nobody’s ever accused open source of being good at naming stuff

Do the users find the name terrible though? I'm pretty sure on at least 3 different occasions I heard someone excitely yelling "time to bring out the GIMP!" or some such when they needed to do some quick photo editing.

Case in point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4CjOB0y9nI&t=2518s

Yeah, GIMP is an awesome name. It's fun and playful, one of the better named programs out there imo.

While using GIMP

No you didn't. No one actually uses Gimp. We just say 'Gimp is a replacement for photoshop' and pretend that is actually an acceptable solution for people using Linux.

(Btw I switched to Krita and I'm never going back to Gimp. Even the things Gimp should be good at, Krita is better.)

Personally I crop screenshots with GIMP twice a year and it's absolutely fine for that. Not sure what your problem is.

If your use-case is "crop screenshots", your competition isn't Photoshop, it's MS Paint.

There aren't many image editors that are able to crop pictures in a usable way. MS Paint for example can't do that. I wonder if the "move this rectangle" method is under patents.

Maybe you mean something different by "cropping", but drawing a rectangle followed by ctrl+c then ctrl+n is fairly quick / good enough

If there was a linux port of paint, I'd consider it. Until then, GIMP is fine.

Check out Pinta. It does basic image editing pretty well, imo.

jspaint.app has you covered

GIMP is the screenshot cropping tool, or for when you want to write a Lisp program to do a single, technically-precise thing to an image. Krita for everything else!

I'm still waiting for the Krita equivalent of Inkscape.

I use Lisp extensions all the time for things people claim GIMP can't do, like draw certain shapes.

GIMP is to Emacs as Photoshop is to Intellij. Both GIMP and Emacs are fairly lean out of the box; it is meant to be molded into what the user wants. The problem is the target audience of Emacs is much more keen on programmatically modifying their systems than the target audience of GIMP.

sounds like exactly what ronin is for

tutorial/example video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgAWGh1s9zg

What issues do you have with Inkscape? I've used it for both (semi-)professional and personal work, and the UX is quite pleasant.

Inkscape is buggy, especially when clipping. Sometimes layers or filters aren't shown properly. Editing filters is a bit arcane.

When I first started using Inkscape, I disliked all the dialog boxes, but I'm used to them now.

It's a semi-decent SVG editor (if you ignore all the XML Editor crashes), but you can't draw in it.

Krita can't print.

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