So glad I was banned from Reddit.

Why did the other commenters parse the title as a question? I expected directions from OP.

THANK YOU!

Eh. It helped a little, but the menu and button interface are not the biggest problems. It’s the way the tools work, or don’t work, that causes me the most issues.

“Free” software has a way of becoming paid. They put more and more features behind the paywall over time. Sketchup and Fusion 360 come to mind.

The main thing I always stumble over is selecting and “floating”, all of that seems unnecessarily complex.

Also, filters won’t apply to masks. In Photoshop, you can just add a channel, paint a mask and use any of the filters, and then keep that channel to use as a selection–it’s easy to make any channel a selection, including the color channels and alpha channel. It sort-of works in GIMP, but filters won’t apply to the channel.

Upvoted, because that’s me.

Although, since I have no professional reason for paying for Photoshop anymore, I’m forcing myself to learn GIMP.

Well, clearly the government would be an exception, there are always “authorized uses” for every banned thing.

They aren’t there to solve crimes, or prevent crimes. They are there to commit crimes against the poors, cover them up, and take reports after the fact. Also, they protect the property of the rich. Uvalde showed us what cops actually do in detail, when they show up too early.

Exactly. Governments around the world, including the U.S., of course, have made it crystal clear through their actions that they don’t give a fuck about protecting children.