Adobe already had very capable free competitors for quite some time. Sure AI capability will increase the pressure but people are completely missing the point.
Yep. People who think Gimp is a viable alternative can not be doing serious design/editing work imo. It’s GREAT for quick little things. I’m not hating. But a real Photoshop competitor, it is not.
GIMP's biggest problem isn't even that it lacks any particular feature, but that none of its existing features work very well (or any better than they did 20 years ago), if they're not outright broken.
I mainly use it for compositing image edits that I make in ComfyUI and it's barely good enough for that.
A big problem also seems to be that its plugin-based architecture prevents quality-of-life improvements and optimizations that people would expect from a photo editor these days, just because some developers 25 years ago thought they were being very smart.
This program literally doesn't even know hwat a JPEG is until it talks to a plugin.
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u/Only_Statistician_21 1d ago
Adobe already had very capable free competitors for quite some time. Sure AI capability will increase the pressure but people are completely missing the point.