by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Thursday February 07, 2013 @03:49PM (#42823437)
Define: Gimp
gimp noun 1. a limp. 2. a person who limps; lame person. verb (used without object) 3. to limp; walk in a halting manner: a sprain that made her gimp for weeks.
An average user, expects that when they select a rectangle, plant the mouse in the middle and drag it, the contents move. This happens in photoshop. It sometimes happens in GIMP, but usually not. This is something to do with layers, it is massively annoying and it is the barrier to entry that leaves most people saying GIMP sucks.
If I encounter this non functionality, I can usually drill through some menus and find something to 'merge layers' so they behave like the bitmap they are supposed to behave like. But most people don't manage to do that and give up.
It is inexcusable that when you import a jpeg picture it comes in as more than one layer and GIMPs tools then interact with a different invisible layer, frustrating the user trying to edit the image.
That is why GIMP sucks. If they fixed the layer interface, GIMP would not suck. I'd do it myself, but I'm too busy designing chips to fork GIMP and fix it.'
You just nailed my three attempts at using GIMP - I did work through it with some difficulty but then did not go back for a while until I needed a higher level of function than the OSX picture editor would give me... By which time I had forgotten and had to start again... True photoshop has layers but they are negotiable .
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definitions (Score:-1)
Define: Gimp
gimp
noun
1. a limp.
2. a person who limps; lame person.
verb (used without object)
3. to limp; walk in a halting manner: a sprain that made her gimp for weeks.
sounds about right
Re: (Score:-1)
I agree Gimp sucks
Re:definitions (Score:5, Insightful)
>I agree Gimp sucks
It's the layers. They are what makes GIMP suck.
An average user, expects that when they select a rectangle, plant the mouse in the middle and drag it, the contents move. This happens in photoshop. It sometimes happens in GIMP, but usually not. This is something to do with layers, it is massively annoying and it is the barrier to entry that leaves most people saying GIMP sucks.
If I encounter this non functionality, I can usually drill through some menus and find something to 'merge layers' so they behave like the bitmap they are supposed to behave like. But most people don't manage to do that and give up.
It is inexcusable that when you import a jpeg picture it comes in as more than one layer and GIMPs tools then interact with a different invisible layer, frustrating the user trying to edit the image.
That is why GIMP sucks. If they fixed the layer interface, GIMP would not suck. I'd do it myself, but I'm too busy designing chips to fork GIMP and fix it.'
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You just nailed my three attempts at using GIMP - I did work through it with some difficulty but then did not go back for a while until I needed a higher level of function than the OSX picture editor would give me ... By which time I had forgotten and had to start again ... True photoshop has layers but they are negotiable .