Re: GIMP may be powerful...
I think is a matter of what you're used to. I find GIMP pretty easy to use, personally, but I've been using it for a very, very long time. When I use something like Photoshop, I find it very, very frustrating.
I think the bottom line is that there's a large learning curve for using these sorts of programs, and I don't think that curve is any easier with other tools. So you tend to find the one that you've learned well to be the easy one, and all the others are hard.
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