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Something that others might not be aware of - Gimp could be a lot better by now, but Adobe actually has patents on features that cannot be included into Gimp, i
by RubyRidgeRandy 5y ago
Something that others might not be aware of - Gimp could be a lot better by now, but Adobe actually has patents on features that cannot be included into Gimp, including certain UI elements. So there is a limit on what Gimp can do, not because of competency, but because of legality.
- luegen 5y agoIs there by any chance a list of software patents that Adobe or other companies hold that GIMP cannot implement for this reason?
- prokoudine 5y agoThere is no such thing because patents have nothing to do with this.
- TheRealNGenius 5y agoAgree, Rubyridge is just flat-out wrong. Check out photo pea for example, UI is remarkably similar to photoshop
- RubyRidgeRandy 5y agohttps://patents.justia.com/assignee/adobe-systems-inc https://patents.justia.com/assignee/adobe-systems-inc content aware stamp tool METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVE SYNCHRONIZATION OF A DISPLAY LAYOUT METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GESTURE BASED COPYING OF ATTRIBUTES METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN IMPROVED WORKFLOW FOR DIGITAL IMAGE EDITING Construction of multimedia compositions Methods and apparatus for selecting objects by state Methods and apparatus for automatically grouping graphical constructs Methods and apparatus for maintaining online preferences Methods and apparatus for creating a quick canvas System and method for identifying Bezier curves from a shape Method and apparatus for applying locale behaviors to regions of a form Preview window including a storage context view of one or more computer resources Methods and apparatus for arranging graphical objects Methods and apparatus to identify graphical elements Methods and apparatus for three-dimensional isographic navigation System for manipulating noise in digital images Compound layers for composited image manipulation Method of color selection for display and printing
- prokoudine 5y ago> Something that others might not be aware of - Gimp could be a lot better by now, but Adobe actually has patents on features that cannot be included into Gimp, including certain UI elements. It's an urban legend :) Improving UX means we need 1) UX architects/designers — got none 2) developers to implement what UX people design — got too few
- RubyRidgeRandy 5y agohttps://patents.justia.com/assignee/adobe-systems-inc https://patents.justia.com/assignee/adobe-systems-inc content aware stamp tool METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVE SYNCHRONIZATION OF A DISPLAY LAYOUT METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GESTURE BASED COPYING OF ATTRIBUTES METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN IMPROVED WORKFLOW FOR DIGITAL IMAGE EDITING Construction of multimedia compositions Methods and apparatus for selecting objects by state Methods and apparatus for automatically grouping graphical constructs Methods and apparatus for maintaining online preferences Methods and apparatus for creating a quick canvas System and method for identifying Bezier curves from a shape Method and apparatus for applying locale behaviors to regions of a form Preview window including a storage context view of one or more computer resources Methods and apparatus for arranging graphical objects Methods and apparatus to identify graphical elements Methods and apparatus for three-dimensional isographic navigation System for manipulating noise in digital images Compound layers for composited image manipulation Method of color selection for display and printing
- prokoudine 5y agoNone of that is the reason for a missing feature. Some of those things are actually implemented in GIMP, at least, judging by titles. Like I said, urban legend.