wait a minute, GIMP is better than Photoshop!?
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tldr: recovering Adobe Photoshop user shows you features in the very free and very open source gnu image manipulation program :Dmy relevant GIMP config files...

This should be helpful for people that learned Photoshop in the past (for work or in school). From what I understand, a lot of the friction with GIMP is the workflow differences, and potentially unintuitive UI/UX choices.

tldr: recovering Adobe Photoshop user shows you features in the very free and very open source gnu image manipulation program :D

my relevant GIMP config files: https://github.com/BreadOnPenguins/dots/tree/master/.config/GIMP/3.0

GIMP documentation: https://www.gimp.org/docs/

  • Ardens@lemmy.ml
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    13 days ago

    Well, if you can’t make a circle in GIMP, then you have quite a lot to learn. I just asked my kid who’s 7, and she easily makes a circle. She would like to show me all the shapes she makes in a minute or two… When I asked her, she made a square, rectangle, triangle, drop, circle, star, lightning, oval, cros and a few more, where she named them all… She had fun doing it, so thanks for that… But please, go practice. BTW I like Krita too - I just don’t feel the need to blame any tool for being different from another. :-)

    Can I ask you… how often do you really draw a circle, for this to be an issue?

    Here’s a little guide. My daughter uses the selection tool, to make a lot of shapes… ;-)

    https://thegimptutorials.com/how-to-draw-circle/

    • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
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      13 days ago

      The first two sets of instructions are for drawing a disc, rather than a circle (a disc being a filled-in circle) and don’t extend to drawing a circle easily. The last method does, but it is about 10x as long. The traditional method for drawing a circle was to select the inner circle, save the selection to a channel, grow the selection by the pixel width of the stroke you want, subtract the saved selection, then fill. Wonderful /s

      GIMP does not (unless I missed it in a ~recent update) have a shape tool like most image editors. The GIMP documentation in any case suggests using Inkscape for the purpose.

      • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
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        13 days ago

        GIMP apologists are what Adobe users think FOSS apologists are like. The principled refusal to even consider fundamental UX principles is astounding.

        • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
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          13 days ago

          Yeah you might be right.

          I should clarify I use GIMP. A lot! But this is one way it sucks. By this point I don’t know what other similar programs even have over it - it finally got adjustment layers after some decades. So if I can recognise this shortcoming anyone should be able to ;)

          The other major thing was switching to single window mode. Floating windows for everything was absolutely batshit.

              • LeFantome@programming.dev
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                13 days ago

                Most Wayland compositors don not have the concept of multiple windows being one application. And you cannot always control how and where they appear.

                This is not a Wayland complaint. Just pointing out that old GIMP was just not very compatible with the core Design of Wayland.

                Depending on what compositor you use, a lot of this has really improved.

                • Mactan@lemmy.ml
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                  9 days ago

                  and not for a lack of proposals either, they just languish there obstructed by certain parties