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To be fair, GIMP considers itself also an image processing software, not (or only partially) a painting program. At least, it emphasizes this aspect and it shows (yes it mentions also artistic usage).

I'm using it this way as a tool (being a software writer in this industry), but the tasks belonging to it and those for Krita have a virtually empty intersection.

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You're absolutely correct, but you know how these things go: people look up FOSS Photoshop (or more likely "free photoshop alternative") on a search engine and GIMP is the first hit and when the tools for drawing aren't as sophisticated, users will say "GIMP sux" because it doesn't match their expectations if they're a drawer even if it's a perfectly adequate image processor.

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