> If they want to compete with photoshop they should focus > on usability rather than features. The scripting features > might be awefully cool for developers

> If they want to compete with photoshop they should focus > on usability rather than features. The scripting features > might be awefully cool for developers but for designers > who have to sometimes make hundreds of clicks to get one > pixel straight, usability matters the most. Perhaps the same designers who love to complain about the increasing licensing costs of the Adobe stack should step up and start putting their money where their mouth is? If a few hundred design nerds donated even a fraction of the upgrade costs for CS4 to developers working on GIMP, they could probably get all kinds of nifty usability and functional fixes into the next release.