Nothing wrong with GIMP by itself, but when compared to Photoshop, it is not really the same. Photoshop’s tools have a “works like magic” feel to them, its hard to describe. Gimp in comparison does feel a bit rough. Also it has a few missing features for the really advanced users.
I want to echo what drum wrote. Gimp can do everything photoshop does, but in photoshop it’s so smooth, things feel like magic when you do them, its fluid, rarely popup windows, things update instantaneously as you write and drag sliders, the UI is not programmer art, etc.
After years of GIMP use when I obtained ps after just a few weeks I was hooked
Nothing wrong with GIMP by itself, but when compared to Photoshop, it is not really the same. Photoshop’s tools have a “works like magic” feel to them, its hard to describe. Gimp in comparison does feel a bit rough. Also it has a few missing features for the really advanced users.
I have no familiarity with photoshop, but can’t you do like 95% of what it can do with GIMP? GIMP isn’t very user-friendly, I’ll def agree with that.
I want to echo what drum wrote. Gimp can do everything photoshop does, but in photoshop it’s so smooth, things feel like magic when you do them, its fluid, rarely popup windows, things update instantaneously as you write and drag sliders, the UI is not programmer art, etc.
After years of GIMP use when I obtained ps after just a few weeks I was hooked