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?

  • mvirts@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 hours ago

    Gotta whip out “The GNU Image Manipulation Program” or just say “an open source image editor like Photoshop” or just say Photoshop of you are speaking to the wrong audience.

  • m4xie@lemmy.ca
    4·
    3 hours ago

    “like the suit?”

    “I wouldn’t know, I’m not into men’s formal wear.”

  • abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world
    7·
    7 hours ago

    I’d just follow up in the same sentence with “it’s an Adobe alternative”. People tend to fix on the last thing in a sentence so they’ll just ask why you don’t use that instead.

  • Alberat@lemmy.world
    5·
    8 hours ago

    also latex lol i always google things like “red colored text latex” and get pictures of people in latex suits

    • jdnewmil@lemmy.ca
      1·
      6 hours ago

      ASCII does not have Greek letters, so we bring this upon ourselves by misspelling: $LaTe\Chi$

  • onnekas@sopuli.xyz
    9·
    10 hours ago

    I know it’s not easy for everyone but I think if one would say “GIMP!” with bit more confidence it would already help a lot.

    Instead of doing the awkward:
    “I-I use G-Gim…” sweats nervously “uummm Gimp… It stands for GNU Image…” ÜwÜ

    Alternatively just say “I edit/create the images myself and use Canva to animate it”

  • ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    151·
    11 hours ago

    Somebody had a cosmetic fork at one point called Glimpse.

    The GIMP devs are downright fucking fascistic about never ever changing the name. Just suggesting it will get you unholy hellflame.

  • Zacryon@feddit.org
    11·
    11 hours ago

    I once searched for “gimp mask”, as I wanted to learn something about the masking features in the software. Well, as a non-native english speaker, I was quite amused about the results.

    • selokichtli@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 hours ago

      I just did, with and without safe search ON. The results were only about the GIMP we all know.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
    2·
    8 hours ago

    Imagine if you had to say you’re the sole programmer responsible for Nesticle! Or that your blog is full of texticles

    I’m not sure saying “I used the GNU Image Manipulation Program” would’ve sounded better, probably would.

    • Gibibit@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 hours ago

      I’ll settle with GNUIMP, or gnooymp.

      Nesticle sounds like a bait term similar to ligma.