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by nkkollaw
3011 days ago
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It's hard to develop the effects, not move buttons around. As for the "go fix it", that's exactly the reaction I was expecting. Open source projects can't handle criticism because it's volonteers working on it, so "go fix it if you don't like it". Not very productive, uh? Personally, I use Pinta or Photoshop via Wine. Pinta is very good though. |
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Speak for yourself. As someone who's tried to write a simple image editor on a few occasions, writing the image effect was by far the easiest (and most fun) part. Almost all the core algorithms are published and well understood and beyond that it's mostly simple linear algebra. There are also plenty of objective measures to judge how good your implementation is.
Deciding where to "move the buttons" to took up almost all of my development time, was incredibly hard, dreadfully boring and what kept killing my interest in the project.
Given the choice between spending 20 hours trying to make the sharpening filters 5% faster or 20 hours trying to make the sharpening filters more intuitive and easy to use I'd choose the former every time and, unfortunately, it seems far too many developers feel the same.