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[–] 30 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

"Fine" meaning "it's technically possible to use it."

Adding and editing text is a nightmare. I feel like the only way you could say with a straight face is if you haven't used Photoshop since 2006. Hell, PowerPoint has a better interface in a lot of ways.

I hate dunking on them like that but let's not lie to ourselves here. GIMP is good enough but the UI was clearly made by engineers, not artists

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  • [–] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I'm an engineer and I have no idea what they were going for with that UI

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  • [–] 17 points 2 weeks ago

    That's fair. I'm an engineer, too, and the UI brings me pain. Especially because my previous career had creative cloud as the daily software.

    I guess I meant more the engineer mindset of "I already know how to use it so it's good enough"

    It reminds me of AutoCAD, my current daily software, which feels like a thousand bandaids stacked on top of each other over the course of 25 years.

    I feel obligated to say that having a bad UI doesn't mean it's bad software. I'm just tired of people pretending it's polished lol

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Adding and editing text is a nightmare. I feel like the only way you could say with a straight face is if you haven't used Photoshop since 2006. Hell, PowerPoint has a better interface in a lot of ways.

    In GIMP? You select the text tool, you click it on the canvas. It's that simple.

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