GIMP is supposedly the best/most powerful free Photoshop alternative, and yet people are resorting to ad-laden browser-based alternatives instead of GIMP - like Photopea - because they cloned the Photoshop UI. If a free alternative existed which offered a similar experience, there would be an unending flow of people that would jump-ship. Being dependent on an expensive SaaS subscription is hell, and is only made worse by frequent bugs in a closed-source ecosystem.

It is comparable in many of the most commonly used Photoshop features, but that only makes GIMP's inability to capture and retain a larger userbase even more perplexing.Įveryone I know that uses Photoshop for work hates Adobe. People are quick to recommend GIMP because it is FOSS, and reluctant to talk about how it fails to meet the needs of most people looking for a serious alternative to Photoshop.

The lack of a good Photoshop alternative is also one of the primary reasons I'm stuck using Windows a majority of the time.

Forgive the inflammatory title, but it is a sincere question.

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