[reaperducer]

I completely agree.

Every few years I give GIMP a shot, and every time I give up because it's completely inscrutable. Adobe is evil, and Pixelmator lacks features, but at least you can figure out how to use them in short order.

[olavgg]

Every time I give Photoshop a chance I give completely up, the thing doesn't even start on neither Fedora or Ubuntu and I have no interest in configuring Wine for this. GIMP is the least painful way to get the job done. I have been using it for over 20 years, and it has been a pain-free experience. That GIMP is bad is just as wrong as the people who say Java is bad.

But you know what's even worse, people that use Illustrator to create SVG's for the web. Inkscape creates proper readable SVG's at 5KB, compared to 50MB SVG's I get from Illustrator experts.

[charcircuit]

Try on Windows 11 or macOS.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/desktop/get-started/techni...

[Shared404]

Check out Krita, it's a much easier lift for someone used to photoshop ime.

At least, if you're doing digital art. Not as full featured for editing of photo's.

[hootz]

Digital artists use Photoshop for painting/drawing? I thought Photoshop was made for photo composites.

[bananamogul]

Photoshop is widely used for painting/drawing, yes. Hooking up a Wacom or similar tablet is very common.

Granted, a lot of this has moved to iPad + apple pencil since that combo was released, but Photoshop is still heavily used. Of course, you can run Photoshop on iPad, too.

[Induane]

I actually find the opposite. I don't actually think either of us are wrong, it probably comes down to what we got started with. I love that in Gimp layers can have totally different canvas sizes, and I prefer it's foreground select tool.

But most of all, any comparison is going to be silly. Photoshop has lots of amazing features and in sure is better in a technical comparison to Gimp in many ways.

A lot of times the best tool for the job is the one that works great for you.