[quote=melmantheman]i font understand why people pay so much for adobe products like flash and photoshop when you can just use gimp 2 and Pencil studio. anyone agree?[/quote]
Photoshop is far from perfect, it has loads of issues, and there are lots of specific examples which Gimp is easier/better at performing. But overall, I'd mostly disagree.

Photoshop's feature umbrella stretches much further then Gimp's, and allows you to do far more. Even just basic stuff is missing from Gimp, such as layer folders, and layer filters. Pretty much all graphics artists and designers, regardless of what their favourite tools are, will use Photoshop somewhere in their work flow, and it's because other tools just don't offer the same complete package.

Gimp's GTK interface is also terrible. New windows often open up underneath existing ones, lots of dialogues such as the colour mixer appear in alt+tab, and many commands cannot be used whilst dialogues have focus.

I used to use Gimp very heavily, but these days I rarely open it.


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