This is demonstrably incorrect. I was doing freelance and I did ALL my graphics in GIMP. My bills were paid because of this project for two straight years because of GIMP.
There is nothing of great essence that Photoshop can offer me that GIMP can’t provide.
Fair, I mean: if you want to do collage work MAN, GIMP pops off. but yeah… to do what you described, you kind of have to get inventive with the plot select tool, and hope to hell you can cleanly enclose that loop.
I think the worst problem with GIMP is not that it isn’t a powerful enough tool, but that they make it a point of the project to make it as distinct as possible from photoshop, so a lot of pros don’t really want to even bother learning how to use it. I have tried using it a few times in place of my pirated copy of Photoshop (whenever it stops working), and everytime I try, it baffles me how making something that is obvious and intuitive in photoshop needs 5x more work to do it in GIMP.
Ive been using GIMP for years and once you adjust to how it operates, it’s quite powerful. In fact it has some rather useful features once you unlearn Photoshop. It reminds one a bit more of Corel Paint from back in the day.
Gimp isn’t good enough for pro level work.
This is demonstrably incorrect. I was doing freelance and I did ALL my graphics in GIMP. My bills were paid because of this project for two straight years because of GIMP. There is nothing of great essence that Photoshop can offer me that GIMP can’t provide.
Can gimp mask a sky or subject automatically and reliably yet?
I shoot in natural light exclusively and rely on those features.
Also what about camera raw profiles for fuji? Last I checked no
“tis a poor carpenter that blames their tools.”
A photo with masking takes like an hour to edit manually but minutes with the Adobe AI tools
You can do the same thing in gimp technically, but my time is too valuable now to be tracing tree branches manually with a brush.
Fair, I mean: if you want to do collage work MAN, GIMP pops off. but yeah… to do what you described, you kind of have to get inventive with the plot select tool, and hope to hell you can cleanly enclose that loop.
I think the worst problem with GIMP is not that it isn’t a powerful enough tool, but that they make it a point of the project to make it as distinct as possible from photoshop, so a lot of pros don’t really want to even bother learning how to use it. I have tried using it a few times in place of my pirated copy of Photoshop (whenever it stops working), and everytime I try, it baffles me how making something that is obvious and intuitive in photoshop needs 5x more work to do it in GIMP.
Ive been using GIMP for years and once you adjust to how it operates, it’s quite powerful. In fact it has some rather useful features once you unlearn Photoshop. It reminds one a bit more of Corel Paint from back in the day.