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I could so almost like GIMP. They've made a good effort at building something that has the majority of features Photoshop does, and it's free. Good on 'em. But they need an interface designer. I mean, two distinct file menus? One which you use to open things, and then one per open file which you access by right-clicking? I've worn out an entire mouse clicking in the wrong place when I'm working. And there's no easy way to deselect selected areas. What's worse, the Photoshop shortcut I have muscle-memoried (^D) does something entirely different. I don't know what, because it always seems to hang the program. Argh. But here's the one which really makes me hate with a black, burning hatred which consumes all in its path. Maybe this is just gimp-1.3. Maybe it's only on BSD. Whatever, it's fricking annoying. So, I manage to avoid ^D, and I've managed to remember which menu everything is supposed to be in. And I have an image, finally. I click "save", and set it up as a jpeg. Click the final button and... BOOM! One dead app, one lost image. And there's no way I could fricking save it, because the "save" function is broken. I could cope if the paintbrush was shonky. I could cope if filters were knackered. I could cope if the colour palette was inverted and I had to draw everything in negative and then re-map it once I was done. But the save function being unreliable? Bah.
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