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I really wanted to love gimp but I found the UI hard to navigate. I felt like I was missing panes and sure enough after 45 minutes of searching indecipherable icons I’d randomly discover a gimp pane tucked behind a completely different macOS app. It was like a magic trick designed to infuriate.

I switched to figma and it’s not perfect but a huge breath of fresh air. The infinitely sized canvas is so damn sensible, why haven’t graphics programs always done that!? And the url figma.new is so convenient. I also use Canva a bit for effects. All free versions. I also heard photopea is good.

I might try gimp 3 again.

Hidden secrets lie in Windows-->Dockable Dialogs.

Also "Recently Closed Docks" is useful, because one often closes them by mishap.

> why haven’t graphics programs always done that

Memory constraints at first. Then inertia.

In the many years waiting for the 3.0.0 release have other OSS painting programs matured that have more features overall ? Is this obsolete on arrival ?
If there is, I'm not aware of it.
Outstanding software, incredible. Thank you so much.
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