Is there anything possibly more worthless than Gimp for doing basic image edits. Damn, all I wanted to do was make the white background of an image transparent. I usually use Paint.NET (only available on a PC) for quick crops and background removals. Gimp is just...painful. Now I gotta fire up my PC and send myself the image so I can edit it there.

It's pretty easy to make the background transparent, just select this boundary with the wand tool and delete

The name GIMP is an acronym. It is not in fact the name for the intended user base. It competes with PaintShop Pro. As such it requires more than 5 minutes of tweaking to understand how it works. It is designed for a professional audience.

There's another great free solution called PhotoPea. It's essentially a fuly fledged photoshop in a browser. I love using it for any quick edits and It even has some AI tools to remove backgrounds.

@Demolishun
"professional audience"

more like CLI fetishists who had to angrily concede that for some things, CLI is not enough, so here's a shit interface instead of million shit commandline switches

oh, that's a fun idea - purely commandline image editing program where each function is a switch resulting in the modified image being immediately spat out to disk.

that would be a fun parody thingy

@Hazarth "in a browser"
nothanks. i like my programs being accessible to me regardless of internet connection or the mood of server/app maintainer

I’m also struggling to find something as good as Paint.net outside of Windows. It’s a perfect mix of intuitive, easy to use and powerful.

@Midnight-shcode "oh, that's a fun idea - purely commandline image editing program where each function is a switch"

That exists, it's called ImageMagick. And it's pretty nice actually, if you need to convert or edit hundreds of pictures you're gonna have a bad time with some fancy GUI. Talk shit about "CLI fetishists" all you want, the CLI still exists because it cannot be properly replaced for many tasks without it becoming an insufferable experience.

Gimp is definitely not the best program and has some weird bugs, but it does everything I need as a casual user in an intuitive way. Also it's free and I don't need to fear it becoming unusable over night because the US were in a bad mood and decided to sanction a country.

Gimp is pretty good my professional designer colleague used it besides Photoshop for some tasks that just suck there (even though in general Photoshop is leagues better).

@Lensflare Paint.NET is the real deal when you just need to do the simple things like resizing, removing background, and other basic tasks. I feel like with Gimp and Photoshop I’m trying to learn to fly a 747 when all I needed was a balsa glider with a rubber band propeller to do the job.

@deadlyRants i know about imagemagick, but i only used it as library, from php code. it was a pretty atrocious experience even for tge simplest tasks.

what i meant was literally something with the same usecase as photoshop but wholly cli.