I was wondering how many of you have used something other than GIMP.

I have tried Photoshop, Clip Studio Paint, Nekopaint, Krita, Firealpaca, SAI, Paint.net, and MyPaint.

None of these programs are as nice as GIMP, imo.
Though I use GIMP for drawing, not image editing.

What other programs ((for drawing or image editing)) have you tried? What did you think of them?
Would you use them again? Or do you prefer GIMP?

I used to use GIMP for all my digital painting work - for more than a decade in fact. These days I feel other programs have bypassed it, at least in this arena (which is maybe to be expected, GIMP devs have explicitly said that their focus is not digital painting). I still use GIMP, but rarely for pure painting work.

I use MyPaint for almost all my painting these days. It is fast and easy to pick up. I like the feeling of being "close to the metal" with little distractions. It's limited in many ways but that is also what I like about it - it only tries to be a good paint program, not a full image processor. I find I can very quickly produce results in it.

After MyPaint comes Krita when it comes to painting for me. The selection resize-and-move tool along with perspective gridding and a much more elaborate brush engine is what makes the difference there. Krita has the trying-to-do-too-much-at-once phenomenon though and I always found it a bit bloated - I know many swear by that program though so maybe it's only because I still don't know Krita as well as I know GIMP or MyPaint. Nevertheless, some things I will go to GIMP or even Inkscape for rather than to bother figuring out how to do it in Krita. Which is, to be fair, probably more me being lazy and not taking the time to learn the program than anything else.

For a bigger image it's anyway not unusual that I switch between all three programs at least once.
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I've been using GIMP for about...6 years...I think. It's my main program to draw with, though I also use MyPaint which I also love but the newest version turned on me so I have to use an older version now. I also am not as big of a fan of krita. It seems a bit slow and overly ambitious, although maybe if I had a tablet I'd be more inclined to have some patience with it. I haven't used photoshop really...maybe twice and I didn't want to use it so...it didn't go well...and when I used art-rage I couldn't draw so I don't have anything to say either way on that either.

I had Photoshop 6.0 but unfortunately after updating my Mac to a stupid OS X Yosemite, I have lost all my Adobe software - Photoshop, Illustrator, Reader/Writer, and Muse.
I downloaded GIMP as a free alternative and the learning curve is HUGE. It's not intuitive, at all!
I cannot use TEXT tool. Every time I try to use text, randomly other tools are being selected (for each letter I type on my keyboard, a different tool gets selected, so if I type MOM, ink, then select, then eraser got selected randomly.
I am very frustrated.
PLEASE HELP

I used Paint at the beginning, graduated to GIMP, and haven't had a need (yet) to expand my horizons. I tried Photoshop in college, but didn't learn enough to fully appreciate it. Also had MyPaint installed at one point. Would definitely try it again if I got into tablet painting.



I remember using it years ago; it's slightly addictive! The new version looks quite amazing.

I used Gimp for... Hum... More than 10 years? I still use it for GUIs and for the G'mic interface (the krita one is Okay, but I always open gimp out of habit XD ). I'm waiting for the new symmetry/tiles options.
I use krita for drawing. Before krita, I was a myPaint user. Mypaint is faster but most of the time I don't need to work on pictures bigger than 5000x5000, so...
Krita's has good brushes and perspective assistants, and that's enough for me.
Oh, the pie-menu too, that's a time saver.

There's a lot in MyPaint i would like to be in Gimp, and there's a lot in Gimp that i would like to be in MyPaint.
So i am switching applications often during a same project.

Only three programs that I mainly use (and only one editor; that would be GIMP). Yes, I have CS5, but I only use it to process my RAW captures and I don't take pictures much. The other two programs I was referring to is DAP and PwS Pro. I do ocasionally use either Irfanview or XNView as surrogate PS filter engines. I also use some cool but limited programs like Artensoft Photo Collage and PicPaks, but not very often.

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I have both Gimp and Photoshop honestly Gimp is easier to use(maybe because I'm used to it). I am learning Photoshop pretty quickly. Honestly I don't know which program I prefer. I love both programs. I've used Gimp for about a year and a half.

I mostly use Gimp. I have tried a trial photoshop but couldn't get my head around it.
I sometimes use LightZone (mostly use it to open RAW's) & AutoHDR for photo editing.
Other programs would be Fractal programs although the last time I updated my Java a few of them stopped working.

I use gimp and paint.net mostly. I like both programs.

I used Paint a long time ago but found it wasn't able to do what I needed. I was repairing old photos from our family at that time. That is how I found GIMP. I was looking for something that could do more for photo restoration. I tried Photoshop in the distant past, also but was not going to buy something that expensive at the time. Now that I have GIMP, I don't think I need another program at this time.

I've used PhotoShop for years. Now I'm 100% Linux and use Gimp, Krita, DarkTable, LightZone and blender Linux apps. I also have wine installed and run a handful of Windows only apps like Paint.NET and Aviutl. I can run my old version of PhotoShop in wine, but I have no need for it anymore.

Have tried many many many but Krita and Gimp are my preferences for painting.

Art programs? That does not rule out vector editors so I have to mention Macromedia Freehand.
It was the first program I used at work and remains my all-time favorite.
I've also used early versions of PS and Corel Applications and still use Photo-Paint version from 90s.
Opens in a split-second and the old 8bf filters that do not seem to work on other programs magically work. And the nostalgia ah!
PS has turned out to be just a PSD opener, haven't gone past CS6 and won't.
Tried Paint.NET just few days ago, it has awesome render add-on effects....but I had to uninstall the damn thing after 8 straight hours of playing with psychedelic patterns, spirals and optic illusions. The sun barely sets at this time of year and I couldn't get sleep for next 2 nights!!
IrfanView for quick edits/batch processing, 20-years can you believe it!