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> Can't wait for the dominance of Photoshop to be ended by gimp

Hah, good joke, I've been hearing it for years now.

But you're not laughing at ffmpeg.

Progress comes in bits and pieces, maybe gimp isn't it, just like GNU Hurd continues to suck, but something will be there eventually.

How is ffmpeg a photoshop alternative?

ffmpeg could be the underlying package for that alternative.

and tbf I'm finding ffmpeg very efficient for the kind of editing that I do, and I barely scrape the surface.

I’ve been using gimp since 0.48 when I had to compile for SGI Irix to run on our O2 workstation. I’m pretty sure gimp is not going to be the one.

Decades.