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I tend to give major GIMP releases a try to see if they're someplace good yet, having worked professionally with Photoshop for a few years. They're not. The UI is still busted, though they're sort of facing in the right direction. Some of the design decisions for the software boggle my mind. Having to manually add alpha channels to layers brought in from jpg files? Having bounding boxes on layers that you have to resize via a dialog if you want to add anything outside them? This kind of thing makes usability experts weep.

I've seen software by programmers, for programmers before. It's an easy trap to fall into. This, however, is a piece of software by idiots, not targeted at anyone.

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