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And giving back comes in all forms. Writing docs, answering questions, helping out new users, fixing bugs, or just spreading the gospel of said FOSS software.
.... Y'all should check out Krita.
MyPaint too.
And others.
Imagemagick's not to be scoffed at either.
The ffmpeg of imaging.
I like to point out to folks that pre-google Youtube was built on ffmpeg. You can set up streaming servers on it and all kinds of stuff. So who is stealing from whom... the pattern is theft from open source, not the other way around.