Why is there no real competition for Adobe? GIMP?
GIMP is way more capable than you’d expect. But the UI, honestly, one of the worst, & it’s been like that forever.
They pushed some major updates recently, like non-destructive editing & proper layering, & much more, some pretty fundamental stuff, a genuine milestones. But the UX barely changed.
It’s a perfect example of how bad design ruining great open-source software.
Blender managed to avoid this fate, I still don’t understand exactly how they did it
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