Adobe has betrayed me!!

[Aaronock]

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Ew... GIMP is pretty terrible for serious illustrators. There are so many better options than GIMP for illustration...and many others that are cheap or free even.

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Why terrible? Gimp has almost all the tools and features that Photoshop has. I use it mostly for web design stuff but know "serious illustrators" who use it.

You shouldn't call something terrible if you don't know it well.

Who says I don't know much about it?
I've used it, and it's not very intuitive for illustration...or well much of anything else that I tried to create in it.

That's great you know some illustrators who use it, but they are pretty miniscule in number for a reason.