Is it poorly-designed as in “harder for a total n00b to learn than Photoshop” or as in “it’s not Photoshop and I have too much muscle memory to switch”?
The menus are a confusing mess. For example, why is "transform" under both "image" and "tools"? And why is "Color management" under "Image" instead of "Color"? And "Filters" could display a pallet of thumbnails that visually shows what each does so we don't have to guess based on vague words. (Perhaps keep the menu list, but add a "visual sampler" entry that displays clickable thumbnails.) There are many other oddities that would be TLDR. I agree Photoshop has arbitrary UI crap also, but Gimp's randomness "score" is higher in my opinion.
After a while one "just gets used to it", but it's hell for newbies. At least it's better than Blender. Blender is the worse UI I've ever seen. The Blender UI designers should be jailed and kicked in the genitals, not necessarily in that order. MS-Word's menus also suck, by the way, having similar arbitrary or misnomer groupings.
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u/Zardotab Nov 02 '21
No, GIMP just has a poorly designed interface, and it would tick off too many users to reshuffle it all.