• AugustWest@lemm.eeEnglish
      17·
      10 months ago

      Oh so this is not a photoediting class I thought. So I launched Krita. And everyone laughed when they realized Photoshop was the wrong tool for the job.

      We had icecream.

  • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1093·
    10 months ago

    Non-destructive editing was way, way more important. Shapes can be done differently anyway.

  • macniel@feddit.org
    7521·
    10 months ago

    It’s so tiring…

    Use the circle selection tool, mark an area, fill it with a solid colour/gradient/texture or morph it further or stroke the path to create a hollow circle

    So many options that amount to more than just a shape tool.

    • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
      1163·
      10 months ago

      Unintuitive.

      I heard of photoshop when I was 13 and I installed a pirated version, just started clicking around and I always found what I wanted in a minute.

      10 Years later, I switch 100% to Linux, I have to do some light design work, I open gimp - I CLICK AROUND FOR HALF AN HOUR FOR SOMETHING SIMPLE - can’t find it to save my life. Give up and google it, it gives me a reply like yours “just go to a completely unrelated menu to conjure a hack out of your ass that barely resembles what you originally intended to do”.

      Fuck that UX man. I am so glad pirated photoshop works well in wine nowadays and I have a VM with a legit Adobe suite if I ever need to actually whip up my license for some reason (fuck adobe as well btw.)

      I pray that one day there is a real competitor that works natively on Linux. I pay, take my hard earned money every month, whatever it takes, just make it intuitive and reach near feature parity with PS.

      If anybody is still reading, sorry for venting, the GIMPs always trigger me, have a nice day.

    • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
      43·
      10 months ago

      So many options that amount to more than just a shape tool.

      If I wanted to learn some arcane bullshit to draw a circle Id just learn C++.

      • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
        417·
        10 months ago

        Spoiler: most people don’t care about “year of the linux desktop”. Linux works for me and those losers on windows be damned. Why should we cater to them? Especially since they won’t put any effort into learning linux.

        • Julian@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          10 months ago

          I wouldn’t have switched personally if Linux ui was still shit. I put the effort into learning because the initial experience was good enough to warrent delving deeper into it.

      • B-TR3E@feddit.org
        61·
        10 months ago

        Select circle -> save selection as path. There’s your vector. I’d, however, use some vector app for vector graphics, independent of the OS I’m using.

    • missingno@fedia.io
      16·
      10 months ago

      That’s several more steps than it ought to take. Including the step of having to look this up, because you’d never intuitively figure this out on your own.

  • TwoCupsofSugar@lemmy.world
    41·
    10 months ago

    i just want pressure sensitivity that actually works, GIMP used to be my go to for art stuff in the past, its a shame to see that it hasn’t really improved much over the past decade. I’ve switched completely to Krita, better overall software

    • Foxfire@pawb.socialEnglish
      8·
      10 months ago

      I use Krita for everything, I love it so much. I also won’t act like it’s perfect either, despite it being my most used software by a landslide. Personally my biggest desire now is improved workflow for text editing (e.g. editing text directly on the canvas, being able to box and justify text, vector pathing for text so you can make it bend or wave). From what I understand it is something that is being worked on, and I will be even more indebted to the wonderful folks at KDE once further progress is made on that front.

      • Saturnalia@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        10 months ago

        It is just such a natural feature to have when you can be dealing with blending layers that take up the entire canvas.

  • Julian@lemm.eeEnglish
    311·
    10 months ago

    Man there’s a lot of really stupid shit in here.

    Yes having a simple to use shape tool is nice. And it’s on the roadmap so no, it doesn’t go against some weird vaguely defined “core value” of gimp.

  • matmarspace@programming.dev
    181·
    10 months ago

    Not gonna lie this update is great. We got TEXT OUTILINES! Do you hear that??? Finally text outlines 🥹❤️

  • xye@lemm.eeEnglish
    205·
    10 months ago

    GIMP needs a glow up. It looks like what it is, but for a program looking for artists and designers to switch - you’re not going to get it by looking like the Temu photoshop.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    153·
    10 months ago

    I use GIMP only for the simple pixel stuff, and I hope they did not make basic operations even more complicated. I always struggle to get some basic things done just because there are myriads of for me useless and arcane settings.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
    11·
    10 months ago

    Gimp 3.0.0 is fucking awesome, haters gonna hate.

    There is already a killer plugin for Gimp 3.0.0 called “Batcher” that lets you batch edit and convert images (including pdfs) either with a GUI interface or from the command line. There are already plenty of tools that can do this from the command line, or that are commercial paid software… but this is a pretty damn powerful utility to have attached to a fully featured free and open source image editor that you could teach someone who is uncomfortable with scripting how to make a bunch of edits across a large amount of image files with.

    https://github.com/kamilburda/batcher

  • Rose@lemmy.world
    8·
    10 months ago

    GIMP (at least in v2) does have a vector path tool and stores the paths with the image! Thing is, they kind of work like selections and you have to explicitly stroke the paths on bitmap layers. It’s a bit more complicated than necessary and not easy to grasp at first.