blackbonner posted at 12:32PM Sun, 29 September 2019 - #4364616

It's nice to read that Gimp has made his way to become an equal to Photoshop. Equal in the sense that one can do in Gimp whatever one can do in Photoshop. I personally miss one thing in Gimp that Photoshop has and that's the superior text tool. Gimp has made progress in this case, but it is far away from what Photoshop can do.

^^^^^ This. All of it. I will add that I hate Adobe. Overpriced and in my experience not supportive of customers. Their text manipulation tools are excellent, though. I have not used GIMP much, as it was very cumbersome when I tried it, but since I mostly paint with these programs, I find programs like Clip Studio Paint much more efficient and cost effective. I don't think Photoshop has a lock on the pro art world anymore- in part because 'art' means too many different things in the digital age. Most 'art workers' are pretty specialized now, and don't need all the features of Photoshop, let alone the whole cloud nonsense. There are many programs out there that do the things they do as well or better than Adobe products and at a fraction of the price, or free. As long as they have file compatibility for the total work flow, they're perfectly viable professional tools, and more and more use .psd as an import/export file type, so there aren't that many compatibility issues anymore. I haven't used GIMP in a long time, but I'd be surprised if it doesn't handle .psd as well as photoshop does.