12-20-2014, 08:39 PM
(12-18-2014, 10:57 PM)Bookend Wrote: I tried Gimp, and though I liked it... It lived up to its name in comparison to PS. Especially considering the limited selection of brushes. With PS, I can get brushes from my favourite artists to experiment with, to try things in a different way. With Gimp, that's not an option, because everyone is using PS.
If everyone was using Gimp, there'd be more brushes, I'm sure, and more workarounds, and more work being done on that project.
Have you tried the GPS brushes? They might not be great, but they are much better than the default brushes that come with Gimp.
The biggest problem with open source in my opinion is fragmentation: there's Gimp and there's Krita and MyPaint and Drawpile (and probably others as well that I don't even know about) and somehow they all look promising, like they could be made into really solid software with just a bit of focused effort, but instead of one good free software we end up with many half-baked ones.