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People Aren't Happy With Adobe's Spyware-Like TOS Update: Users of Photoshop, Substance 3D, and other Adobe products are now required to provide the company with unlimited access to their projects. (80.lv)

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[–] GlitterInfection 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Has GIMP improved much in the last five years?

My partner uses Adobe products for one of his jobs, and he had installed their cloud software on one of my laptops on his user account. Which forced it on all other user accounts, too.

I found that it installed horribly challenging to kill or remove daemons that would relaunch and reinstall their spyware bullshit if you didn't kill all of them in the right way, and it was spamming me a pop-up asking for my password to install other things, which I couldn't prevent.

I was able to stop it after many attempts and then got my partner to uninstall that junk from my laptop.

That was all still more user-friendly than the last time I tried to use GIMP.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

No, not much. I use GIMP and Inkscape occasionally for simple things like quick and dirty mock-ups, changing backgrounds, and adding transparency. They're good enough for that. I'd bet a professional could learn to become efficient at using GIMP, but I don't think it's as intuitive or feature-rich as Photoshop.

[–] GlitterInfection 3 points 5 months ago

Drats. I give it a go every handful of years because I want it to be great, but that's my experience every time, too.

I still hold out hopes, since Blender used to be the same way. When I last tried Blender, their keyboard shortcuts and scene navigation were clearly developed by someone who thinks that using emacs is a good idea, and that vi never should have been improved.

But they're a serious pro tool now that has a foothold in the 3D industry which I would not have predicted back then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I started using GIMP just before Adobe Creative Cloud came to fruition, so I'm biased. I found things frustrating and hard at first, but I switched to Linux and had no choice but to learn. I don't doubt that it could be better in many ways, but most criticisms I read about GIMP are that it doesn't do things the way Adobe Photoshop does.