For what i heard, a lot of people on the Linux community use Krita for image manipulation, even though, it’s intended for digital painting, and GIMP is the one intended for image manipulation, because people don’t like the GIMP’s UI.

My issue is, i never understood why they don’t like the GIMP’s UI, since i never have issues with it,(Although it’s probably because i’m used to the UI) so i need to adress this problem and ask you What does the GIMP UI has that you don’t like or hate so much and why you like Krita’s UI over GIMP’s?

Before you event comment your answer i need to ask you to do the following:

  1. Address each specific issue along with an concise and direct explanation of why you don’t like it

  2. Answers such as “I just don’t like it”, “I don’t like where it’s placed” or anything alike doesn’t count as “Concise and Direct”, we are adults, not 4 year old children.

  3. If you can provide a suggestion of how GIMP’s UI can be improved, it would help a lot, and maybe this issue can be solved.

  4. If someone else commented something you were about to comment, upvote them, this way we can address the most common issues effectively.

  5. I need you to watch the screenshots of both UI’s, because something that most people don’t know, it’s how similar Krita and GIMP’s UIs are.

Krita’s UI

GIMP’s UI

(Credits to a friend of mine for lettig me use the screenshots.)

My ideas on how GIMP can improve it’s UI

  1. Adding the option of the new UI selected by default, but with the possibility to switch to the new UI.

  2. Possibly addding “work spaces” like Krita would help too, along with the possibility of exporting and importing them, this way people can have custom arrangements of the UI according to the kind of work they will do.

Thanks for reading and hopefully we can address this issue effectively.

  • @[email protected]
    4•8 months ago

    I tried it last year in a failed attempt to get of ps, which I to every few years.

    I can’t name specifics, but ps is just more intuitive, more user friendly, faster, more stable, gives you more for formats… I don’t even think ps is all that. Even if we forget Adobe owns the pro space here, it’s just not viable to use gimp professionaly. I never understood why gimp doesn’t just copy all the user flows from photoshop when it’s clear that not only they work, but all users are familiar with them from other software.

    • @RayOfSunlightOP
      3•8 months ago

      There’s a reason of why GIMP doesn’t copy things, it’s not a Photoshop clone, but you can modify the UI to make it more like Photoshop, in fact, here is a video on how to do it.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY7g2JGyJeQ

      An alternative option is downloading PhotoGIMP Addon for GIMP, but i consider this to be a better option.

      • @[email protected]
        1•8 months ago

        I understand it’s not a clone, but the truth is ps has a much better ux. There is no reason to not to copy the better ux.

        I tried this plugin, it does very little to make the experience better, it actually makes it worse because it’s more difficult to find things, when you can’t easily Google to find them.

        • @RayOfSunlightOP
          0•8 months ago

          Yes, but with Photoshop (If you are paying the creative cloud) You’ll be paying 60$ a mlnth which translates to 720$ a year every year for the rest of your natural born creative life.

          Also, what functions are you trying to find anyway?

          • @[email protected]
            1•8 months ago

            I’m paying 36 per month for the whole creative cloud. Whole. Photoshop, illustrator, AE,… It’s been a few months, but all of them are just better. Unfortunately it is what it is. And now, now with ai, it’s the only option reasonable.

            • @RayOfSunlightOP
              0•8 months ago

              So you’re letting yourself be a slave of the company and food for the bloodsuckers?

              Edit: Not to mention that the software LITERALLY it’s not yours, you’re just paying a license that isn’t perpetual, so they can revoke it from you to make you stop using it if they want to.

              • @[email protected]
                2•8 months ago

                I pay monthly fees for lots of stuff. A newspaper, Internet, water and heating,… For sure I’d rather not, but I mostly I don’t have an alternative option. With Adobe the case is such.

                  • @[email protected]
                    1•8 months ago

                    :)

                    Tried them all. They don’t compare.

                    There are some that can be replaced easily, like Adobe premier, maybe even after effects. Audacity for sure. Not indesign, Not illustrator, not photoshop. Not only because the alternative are worse, but because everyone else uses Adobe and its incredibly easier to collaborate. If you are a pro in graphic design, like a real pro that these tools are a daily use, you can’t use anything else but Adobe.