Honest to gods, this conversation happened today, and it may have cost me a job opportunity. The customer was super impressed with my menu design and animation, and wanted to know who we got it from. When I said I did it, their face lit up! Too bad as soon as i said GIMP, they weren't interested anymore. Has anyone else experienced this? What do you say in similar situations?
It used to be very odd by default (with the floating windows), it could be changed and I don't mind it since it's a common UI for some dev tools. Some features were missing too, but I'm not a heavy user of photoshop to know.
Yeah, the floating windows were a nineties thing, until maybe mid-2000s. Either Borland's IDEs or Visual Studio had bonkers layouts with everything floating. Even some games like ‘Worms 2’ and ‘SWAT 2’ used that. Thankfully with Gimp I just put everything right like it was in PS and let it hang there, until they shipped the single-window mode.