# Gimp is driving me CRAZY **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 16, 2003, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimp-is-driving-me-crazy/155378 "2003-02-16T04:11:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2003, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimp-is-driving-me-crazy/155378/1 "2003-02-16T04:11:01Z")
I’m going nuts, here. I’m trying to edit an image one pixel at a time. I have the pencil set to the right setting, 1 pixel. It works fine for a minute. Then, I’ll click and the pixel I clicked turns the right color – and three other pixels near it change back or get erased! Then I hit undo, and it changes but it doesn’t go back to the way it was! ARGH! I have also tried selecting a row of pixels and doing a fill, but it doesn’t work. Just now, I selected about 6 pixels, and only five of them changed colors! I don’t think that this is a problem with my computer, because I sent my husband the image and he had the same problem on his work computer. I also have the most recent version of Gimp. Can you help me??? ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2003, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimp-is-driving-me-crazy/155378/2 "2003-02-16T05:54:20Z")
Bring out the gimp! hrh ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2003, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimp-is-driving-me-crazy/155378/3 "2003-02-16T08:07:59Z")
- - - You didn’t say what OS you were running on… or what OS/program your husband uses… - When I tried to use WinGIMP on Win98SE, aside from the fact that WinGIMP had _no_ instructions, it crashed a lot–particularly when I attempted to perform any technically inappropriate function on something, which was often, because there were no instructions telling you what not to do. I accidentally closed one of the tool palettes and couldn’t figure out how to get it back again, over the next two weeks I never did see it again. After about two weeks GIMP disappeared from my HD permanently, “as good as Photoshop” my foot. - Get yerself Photoshop or something cheaper, PS Elements, Paint Shop Pro or whatever if you’re poor. Many have 30-day trial versions free online. ~ ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2003, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimp-is-driving-me-crazy/155378/4 "2003-02-16T09:24:14Z")
I’ll highly recommend PaintShop Pro 7.0. It’s truly awesome, and blows away Photoshop, as far as I’m concerned. ---
**Author:** ![Dreaming\_of\_Maria\_Callas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@Dreaming\_of\_Maria\_Callas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dreaming_of_Maria_Callas)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2003, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimp-is-driving-me-crazy/155378/5 "2003-02-16T12:26:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DougC \* > \*\*After about two weeks GIMP disappeared from my HD permanently, “as good as Photoshop” my foot. > > - Get yerself Photoshop or something cheaper, PS Elements, Paint Shop Pro or whatever if you’re poor. Many have 30-day trial versions free online. > ~ \*\* It’s the \*nix Gimp that is called as good as Photoshop, while the Windows version is notoriously buggy. Don’t interpret your experience with WinGimp as a failure of Gimp in general. UnuMondo ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimp-is-driving-me-crazy/155378/6 "2003-02-16T18:07:47Z")
Sorry, I am using Linux. AFAIK, Photoshop et al don’t have Linux versions, do they? Other than this one problem, Gimp is great. I’ve been using it for more than a year. This is just driving me crazy.