GIMP kind of sucks

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It's free. At least the version I use is. I haven't updated in a year or so.

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I made a 750px wide brush and a 1500px wide brush and they both have the same 10px wide effect. Googling it, this seems to be a common complaint. bug in the code.

In PS open the brush dialogue and all the controls are right there. You can easily change a brush's size, shape, opacity, hardness - all on the fly. In GIMP, if you try to edit an pre-existing brush you get the dialogue but everything is greyed out except hardness. Why even bother? They don't explain that you can't edit a preinstalled brush, you have to make a new one.

And the transform thing makes no fucking sense at all. Why would I want the reference framework moved as I move the image? Why even have a reference framework? I can already see how my image is being changed, I need to see how it is being changed in relation to something static. It's like having a level whose bubble always shows level.

I really think they wanted to make something like PS but had to change it enough to not get sued and the differences they created were different enough but not very well thought out.

And their help also sucks, not that PS is any better.