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Hell freezes over, MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Or color spasecs other than sRGB (8 bits/channel). I've a camera that takes 10 bits/channel photos, a monitor that displays 10 bits/channel, etc. But GIMP will just distort the colors because they hard-coded the color space! Can't edit for print either, no CMYK. GIMP is an image editor for the noughties, not the 2020s.

Then again, we're talking about MS Paint here. If Paint fills your needs, GIMP will be fine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not just 10bit. The Linux version still makes 8bit images more purple after saving.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If Paint fills your needs, GIMP will be fine.

Disagree. Paint's function is to be the Notepad of images, something not very powerful but quick and dead simple.

GIMP is needlessly hard to use.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, Krita is by far a better editor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Good news for you, if they ever get around to releasing gimp 3