I transformed Gimp into Adobe Photoshop — and I might just cancel my Creative Cloud subscription now
THE SO WHAT
If a motivated user can turn GIMP into a Photoshop replacement and walk away from a subscription, the floor for “good enough” creative tooling is rising. SaaS vendors in mature categories need to double down on workflow integration and collaboration moats, not just feature parity.
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