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/

  • Da Oeuf@slrpnk.net
    4·
    13 hours ago

    Good idea for a video.

    It definitely took me some time getting used to GIMP after nearly 20 years as a photoshop user but I’m very glad I did.

    • sga@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      there used to be more, but now news is the main thing.

      in olden times (of 2021), distro reviews/why linux is better/software showcase were the main things.

      there were folks like luke smith (not going to his political shit) would do demos for things like groff/troff (imagine a latex alternative, now it is pretty much only used for man pages). but you get the idea - they would demo software, use it, compare it.

      there is tle, who did lots of lists (like x amount of tools from elementary os which are great), linux cast would do file manager reviews, brodie would cover commandline stuff.

      now pretty much all 3 of them do news. I still watch brodie because his news at times is niche and kinda fun, but i really do not want to hear lkml drama (which is non existent).

      one of the youtubers which got me into linux was mental outlaw. he made tonnes of privacy/security/anonymity related videos back then, and occasional covered hacking news. i started trying to make windows more private (it truly started from try to make wwindows leaner), and then he, and tle got me into linux.

      now i do not watch almost any of them. (except brodie, and occasional tle and tlc)

      why all went to news - it is easier to make.

  • SaraTonin@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 day ago

    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.

  • unphazed@lemmy.world
    2·
    23 hours ago

    I downloaded Photo GIMP and had very little issues doing what I needed. I’ve dabbled with PS for years mostly for editing actual photos and designing graphics, but never professionally, just as a hobby. The mod just works.

    • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz
      41·
      1 day ago

      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.

    • Ardens@lemmy.ml
      136·
      2 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
        132·
        1 day 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
          10·
          1 day 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
            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.

        • Ardens@lemmy.ml
          37·
          1 day ago

          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.

          • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
            51·
            1 day ago

            Are you really going to get defensively patronising over this? I think I’mma bounce, lol.

            • Ardens@lemmy.ml
              24·
              1 day ago

              When you are going to be stupid about it, yeah… It’s not that hard, and you simply can’t accept it. You want it easier, well, good for you, you can do that…

      • LeFantome@programming.dev
        7·
        1 day ago

        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.

        • Ardens@lemmy.ml
          22·
          1 day ago

          Yeah, it is on the roadmap. So it’s pretty harsh to keep whining about it. It’s not like it’s something that is impossible to do. It’s not like people support the development that much or at all… It’s just (I want more free stuff, buhuuu)…

          It’s a nice to have in software like GIMP, it’s not need to have.

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      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

  • ian@feddit.ukEnglish
    81·
    2 days ago

    Its nice to hear about even more ways that Gimp is better than Photoshop.