On 08/07/2015 05:28 PM, George Misdary wrote:

I'm not certain if this is the right place for this, but here goes, A few weeks ago I was on a mission to find a simple, yet effective, image editing program for a project I'm working on.After several frustrating experiences with a bunch of 'complete duds' and 'nice trys', I finally came across the GIMP. Within a few minutes of using GIMP, my reaction was simply WOW! Over the few weeks since I've been using it, that reaction has only continued to flourish and expand.In every step, so far, I've found GIMP to be unbelievably intuitive, logical, stable, capable, powerful, and simply brilliant to use.It is far and away one of the best programs I've ever used, not only as a graphics program but period!For every function that I thought "Hmm, it'd be nice if ...", within a few seconds/minutes of poking around on the hyper-intuitive interface; I've not only found exactly what I was looking for, but something-like a dozen other ways to expand upon what I was looking for. Rarely do I find this level of... maturity in a program and for a program that is released for free none-the-less, I'm simply blown away!!I'm not exaggerating when I say that on a practically daily basis, that I've used GIMP, I find myself saying "I really love this program". I'm sure you hear things like this fairly regularly, but I still wanted to send this email to give a HUGE shout-out to the developers, contributors, and all involved with making this such a kick-a## product! Kudos and THANK YOU!!!
Regards,GM

George,

If I did not know better, I would think you were a friend of one of the developers. :-)

Seriously I do have a question: What other image editing program(s) do you have experience with? (Not just "tried them", but actual significant use.)

My reason for asking is that Gimp is sometimes more intuitive for people who don't have a lot of experience with another image program (because they are somewhat expecting things to be like that other program).

You are a bit special -- in my experience, most people have a more difficult learning curve than you seem to have had.

Jay

On 08/07/2015 05:50 PM, Jay Smith wrote:

My reason for asking is that Gimp is sometimes more intuitive for people who don't have a lot of experience with another image program (because they are somewhat expecting things to be like that other program).

And vice versa. I have been using the GIMP since Tor Lillqvist's early Windows ports, and during that time I have twice tried to use Photoshop. Got the program, manuals, tutorials, etc. and, both times, gave it up as impossible. Obviously, this is not the experience people who stated out with that program have.

Aside from the GNU utilitis, BASH shell, etc., I do believe the GIMP is the most "mature" application in the Free Software ecosystem. I look forward to version 3 with a mixture of glee and dread. Glee, because I know it will solve problems and remove a lot of limits. Dread, because I know it will make a lot of my favorite tricks obsolete, which means re-learning old habits with new tricks.

:o)