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FOSS Image editor (discuss.tchncs.de)
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Funtions I look for:

  • Select image to edit
  • Paste images on top of other images
  • Doodle (customazible size and color)
  • Insert text and variety of fonts
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[–] baggins@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just cannot get on with it. Have tried a few times over the years.

[–] davehtaylor@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The UX is abysmal to the point of being user-hostile, the name of the software is an abelist slur, and also has sexual connotations (the founders are aware of both issues with the name, with the latter being the intention behind the name, and explicitly no intentions of addressing the former). There's just nothing positive about it whatsoever.

[–] astraeus@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just fork it and make a better UX then (and give it a better name than the current one).

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Truly a relic of the 90s

[–] comicallycluttered@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As someone who uses it somewhat regularly... It's terrible. Apparently the next update is supposed to fix some of the UX issues people have had for years. But they said that last time as well.

I just use Krita now for most stuff. The only thing GIMP does better (or did, I haven't checked recently) is textboxes. Adding text to images on Krita was a nightmare a few years ago, but maybe they've fixed it.

[–] HumbertTetere@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Had the same situation.

At some point I just got used to enough of it that it's quite functional.

I wish I could change some of the defaults, but for editing it fulfills most of my needs.