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/

  • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    1 day 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
          2·
          23 hours 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.