On: GIMP 3.0 is on the way

[kookamamie]

I don't think anyone working in print would use Gimp, though?

[pessimizer → kookamamie]

The reason they didn't use GIMP is because they couldn't use GIMP. It simply didn't have necessary capability. When I was working in prepress, I would have done anything to use GIMP. That desperation to escape Photoshop is why Affinity took off.

If Inkscape could get a UI for precision positioning, something you could e.g. design an entry form in; and Scribus could polish up, I think a lot of people would move to a FOSS workflow.

[martin_a → kookamamie]

Naaah... For better or worse we're all set up with our Adobe Creative Clouds...

[glimshe → martin_a]

The Affinity suite - now for $80 due to Black Friday - is a viable competitor to Photoshop for many applications. It's much better than Gimp.

[martin_a → glimshe]

That's true, I got one myself, but as everybody is educated and trained on Adobe products switching is not that easy.

[em-bee → kookamamie]

why is that though? isn't that the bulk of the criticism? bad UX and lack of features needed for print?

[kookamamie → em-bee]

I guess - of course it's a chicken-egg sort of a problem. No one's going to use it for print, before it has print-related capabilities - the same can be said for much of the UX, in general.