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A GIMP Guide, but from a Photoshop User (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Good thing GIMP went single window before Wayland popularity spiked.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Was there a known issue there?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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