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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/
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One thing that GIMP was always far superior on was cutting people out from single-colour backgrounds. All kinds of hassle on any other tool, with even the simplest workflow needing a tonne of refining and touching up. With GIMP, you just select the colour & hit “color to alpha”. Done. It even gets all the tricky hair semi-transparencies.
I love GIMP for what it’s done for the community but I can make a circle in Krita.
literally just a few minutes ago i tried to edit an icon in gimp to make a red line. problem 1: it couldn’t make red color…or any other colors either except the one that the icon had. problem 2: how the heck do you even make a line? so instead of watching a tutorial on how to make a FFFFUUUUCKING LINE, I succeeded with pinta in 3 seconds.
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… ;-)
Pretty harsh response given that a proper shape tool, and specifically the ability to draw a circle, is on the GIMP roadmap.
I do not think it is the most essential functionality but even the project sees it as missing.
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.
GIMP apologists are what Adobe users think FOSS apologists are like. The principled refusal to even consider fundamental UX principles is astounding.
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.
Good thing GIMP went single window before Wayland popularity spiked.
I’m sorry to hear, that it’s that difficult for you to draw a circle. It takes me about 15 seconds to make the perfect circle I want. To me, that is simply the time it takes to make it perfect. If I just want a circle, I can do that much quicker…
So how many times a day do you need to make a circle? When I use Affinity, Inkscape, Krita, GIMP, I don’t very often draw a circle. Most of the time, I do it in Inkscape, because it’s great to make shapes, but there’s a wast difference between a program to make vector graphics, and to make and edit bitmap pictures.
Are you really going to get defensively patronising over this? I think I’mma bounce, lol.
Unless I’m missing something about how to use it the text tool in Krita is terrible though. Been designing cards with people the last few weeks and we ended up making the general design and layout in Krita then brought things into GIMP to add text
Text has gotten a lot better in recent versions. It could still be better.
Its nice to hear about even more ways that Gimp is better than Photoshop.
invidious links plz
I think she forgot to breathe.
