I’ve been using GIMP for around twenty years and I agree that it’s still hard to use, but I will say, they’ve improved a ton in the last few years. It’s important to know that it’s not for drawing, it’s for image manipulation. I have no idea why they’ve never just added a suite of drawing tools though.
app that uses a totally different file and document format
“Uses” is a little nebulous here. You can open/paste/embed most common types of image into Inkscape, and you can open/paste SVGs in GIMP. It actually is really fucking easy to do the drawing part in Inkscape and then pop the result back into GIMP.
I’ve been using GIMP for around twenty years and I agree that it’s still hard to use, but I will say, they’ve improved a ton in the last few years. It’s important to know that it’s not for drawing, it’s for image manipulation. I have no idea why they’ve never just added a suite of drawing tools though.
Probably because it’s really easy to use Inkscape instead.
Eh, I don’t think “open a whole separate app that uses a totally different file and document format” is “really easy”.
“Uses” is a little nebulous here. You can open/paste/embed most common types of image into Inkscape, and you can open/paste SVGs in GIMP. It actually is really fucking easy to do the drawing part in Inkscape and then pop the result back into GIMP.