Though I use GIMP
I don’t get the AI hate. Why is photoshop, a tool made by an evil corporation, so much better?
It’s art without an artist. Or maybe rather more accurately it’s huge amounts of other peoples art put through a blender and reconstituted into a solid block of art product. Actually, yeah, it’s the equivalent of spam, the tinned meat product. It has its uses, but it doesn’t taste good to most people, and there are a few die hard fans.
Doing image editing/compositing/art yourself is just more genuine. It doesn’t have to be the adobe product, there’s tons of editors and art programs out there. Stumbling through gimp patching and editing a meme together gives the end result some charm imo. YMMV, but that’s how I see it and I think a lot of others do to. Where AI generated imagery shines is utilitarian areas. Generating tokens for npcs in ttrpgs, rapidly iterating through concepts for a design, that sort of thing.
There are artists, but they are using math instead of photoshop.
The math behind machine learning is more beautiful than most art.
Yeah, but the machine learning is the art, not what it produces. Don’t get me wrong, generative ai is super cool. However, justifiably or no, most people don’t see someone who just types prompts into generative ai as an artist.
Substitute GIMP for photoshop. Also you can pirate photoshop
GIMP sucks ass though
Nah, GIMP is good.
Since when? Everything it does is unintuitive and clunky, not to mention slow.
Classic Photoshop fanboy
Photoshop has used various forms of AI for over a decade. You sound exactly like traditional artists when digital art was new lol
OP uses GIMP btw
Is OP self aware of the irony of this meme? Maybe that’s the point? I cannot tell.
EDIT: Also, practice self love: use Krita.
Krita is good for art but not photo editing in my personal opinion as someone who is slowly learning to draw art as part of my many hobbies
Gimp is more suitable for image editing though I haven’t used it in a while because I just use pirated photoshop these days for photo editing
For someone who is new to gimp navigating it can be hard at first and the gui can be a bit cumbersome but as you learn the menus and use gimp those problems go away
