oh wow thank you for this. It's a nice resource on what's available out there.

Boosting the signal on this one.

Thank you.

I shared this around to a couple places before watching it, as I trust your recommendations :)

Finally got through it and I will say it is a very useful/helpful presentation. I appreciate his mention of which ones are free and which platforms they're on. There were some I hadn't heard of on the list.

There were some that even I had not heard a lot about and would probably pick up, but he covered the top ones./ and yes, GIMP is awful.

I know of one 'furry' artist who swears by Gimp -- and more who swear at it...

I tried it , running it its native Linnux. Unable to do any sort of productive work with it. How it handles Alpha Channels is unacceptable (or was back then). You have to run it under "GIMPshop" just to gain any sort of familiarity. Awful awful program.

I have to agree. It's a bad case of 'software written by a committee', something I struggled against my whole professional life. I've installed it on many new computers and proceeded to ignore it. The learning curve is onerous and much more intuitive products exist.

Personally, I do photo manipulation in Paint-dot-net because it is intuitive, is free and there are all manner of plugins to do virtually anything I need to. I strongly advise anyone reading this to download it from the linked site, not from anyone demanding payment and definitely not from purchasing it on the Windows Store. Support is a nightmare and many plugins won't work properly because of the stink of Microsoft.

Absolutely. GIMP was the program that introduced many a budding artist in the early 00's to the practice "sailing the high seas" of the internet because, despite our best intentions, the "legit" free software options were Not Gonna Cut It.

One of the things mentioned frequently in Colbow's review video was whether an app was "fun to use". I don't know necessarily if my preferred apps are "fun" to use, but I can definitely tell when something is Not Fun and GIMP 100% was Not Fun. :)

I'll have to give this a watch!