GIMP

[Rhys]

There's a reason why it's free, babe.

This is largely why Linux is such an abysmal failure. It's great as a server OS but as an OS for a desktop it sucks badly due to a clunky interface and clunky software. The people that write it are doing their level best. I don't doubt that. It's just the complete lack of coordination and design that defeats all the freebie software. Somebody said a long time ago that Linux had a dozen tools that would do this bit well or that bit well but none that would do it all well. Windows has plenty decent ideas and some competant programmers and also some horrendously incompetant programmers. Try installing and uninstalling games on a PC and see how long it is before the PC goes belly-up. I used to write software. In the end I stopped writing full programs and wrote DLLs instead. Do you know I sold more DLLs than programs because there are more wannabe programmers out there than end users. It's scary! Anyway the point is that free stuff is only free because somebody on their own has written the software in order to try to attract the attention of the recruiters. It's not written with the end user in mind and is thus usually very poorly designed.

 

[evo5gsr]

the lack of RAW support sucked too.

UFRaw

 

[Hawaii Five-O]

Photoshop Express works pretty well for basic editing and its free! And you can store photos on there.

 

[Garbz]

Rhys actually it's usually well designed but doesn't follow standard protocol. If it was poorly designed it wouldn't work. Like I said earlier I have seen wonders done with GIMP but myself can't figure the damn program out.

Same with everything else opensource. I tried setting up Asteriks for our VoIP system here and gave up after trying 2 graphical aids. Then someone pointed me to Trixbox which used a different graphical interface and it all worked, but plenty of people also found the other front end just fine.

All the programmers should take a course in consistent interface design.