Reply to post: Re: Can you really get a version that says "Bringing on........

The GIMP turns 25 and promises to carry on being the FOSS not-Photoshop

Harry Kiri

Re: Can you really get a version that says "Bringing on........

It is a fantastic piece of free software with some very clever algorithms and plug-ins. A lot of comments relate to it being difficult and a steep learning curve and that's fair, but complex things are hard to learn - personally I've plugged away and got it to do what I want, not always on first go.

Complex things either prescribe how you use them, in which case its a pain to get them to do anything different from the author's intended approach, or they provide a tool-kit of options that you have to figure out, gives that steep curve, but is far more flexible. For beginners, gimp and photoshop are similarly complex...

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