The GIMP

A few days ago I defended The GIMP in this or /prog from someone who had said it was a joke or something like that, as I had tried it just for a minute and had a look at what it could do.

Today I had to edit a couple very simple images for a "web sight": a paletized image, and a JPEG which needed to be expanded and filled with something different, and here at work I didn't have Paint Shop Pro at hand, so I had to use The GIMP.

I must say sorry Mr. Anonymous. You were right, The GIMP is indeed a joke.

Interface...total failure
Tools design...total failure
Layers design...total failure
Color conversion...total failure
Image information...total failure
Stability...total failure

Total failure :(

Stability...total failure

The rest may be true - I haven't used it for any nontrivial things and even that was taxing, although it may just be I need to spend time learning to use it, I don't know - but I think if you're running The Gimp on Windows you get what you pay for. GTK was written as an X toolkit after all. I certainly haven't had any stability issues.

(In about 5 seconds Anonymous is going to arrive and start talking about FAR manager and how much freedom sucks)