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This is Jehan Pages, the top developer behind GIMP, a free open source photo editor. Adobe executives hate Jehan. Because of his hard work, Adobe lost millions of dollars (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/pics@lemmy.world
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[–] 261 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Adobe hasn't lost anything, they have tied up "design" for any business use. Its a total monopoly.

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  • [–] 73 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    Yeah, this is kinda BS.

    Adobe don't care. Nearly every design firm is going to ask you about your Adobe experience, so you can use their Adobe software.

    Maybe some of their designers will use GIMP. But that's like saying your office also uses libre office and Linux. Which is extremely rare.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Design lead here. I know photoshop like the back of my hand, but I also know Pixelmator (Mac only), Sketch and Affinity. All are very nice interfaces, one-time, or major version licenses, and smaller, responsive dev teams.

    There are compromises in all software, but my team uses Pixelmator and Affinity because we’re a small company and it won’t hurt their design skills to know more tools besides the Adobe suite.

    Gimp for a long time had shitty shortcuts and was quite unfriendly to Mac users (the REAL vendor lock-in in the design world btw). Him is just too slow to load, and ugly to look at, similar but less so with Inkscape.

    Big firms might be harder to change, but it’s possibly and there are really good alternatives that Adobe probably worries a little about. Unfortunately they aren’t FOSS for the most part.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    GIMP had some shitty shortcuts, sure. But so did PS.

    As an example of better shortcuts - you could get a rectangular selection by pressing "r", which is an example of a very simple and straightforward UI language. You could then adjust that selection with handles without needing any chords or modifiers, zoom in with the number keys or scroll wheel, etc.

    You could open a tool, like the colour picker, and switch to a different window without the app going beep and telling you "no", which is what PS traditionally did.

    You could open the app and load an image in 1/10th the time it took for PS to start which made it way nicer to use. When I was using PS I generally left it open all the time because of its sluggish start, which meant it was sitting hogging resources all day.

    What I'm saying is that your personal workflow and the general UX of whatever software you're used to using is always the thing you're going to use as a point of comparison, and if your expected shortcut is different it doesn't mean it's worse.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    true that it wasn't good for mac. I gave up apple/mac and their increasingly shitty overpriced products 10 years ago. Since then Linux has come a long way and so has GIMP. Good enough to kill Photoshop? Not any time soon, but good enough for professional use certainly and good enough for new artists to start on. Install G'MIC and it's so much better.

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  • [–] 46 points 10 months ago*

    Right? I hate the phrasing in this headline. Adobe isn't somehow "owed" those millions so it's totally backwards to call that a loss. Fuck that noise.

    They're a business, they should earn their revenue by fostering a healthy competitive environment and then winning through innovation and customer loyalty. Not the monopoly licensing and subscription lock-in BS they've been doing for decades.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    In the construction world, Bluebeam is a good contender to Adobe.

    Still corporate though

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Isn't that for pdf editing?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yes. Bluebeam Revu can do everything Adobe Acrobat can do (better imo).

    Acrobat is still a product of Adobe, which is why I brought Bluebeam up.

    I know this thread is about GIMP vs Adobe Photoshop, but OP of this comment thread said that Adobe has a monopoly over every business use. Not the case in the construction world

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Ah right, got you.

    Bluebeam is so powerful that I feel the way it's used in some construction companies is like how corporate uses excel. In that it has gone beyond what it was initially intended for and has become the primitive around which they work.

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