Man, this was stale pasts 10 years ago, never would have thought it would have legs for miles
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As much as I love gimp, the struggle is real
Photo Pea is where it's at. Browser based Photoshop clone. Unless you're doing art, then go with Krita.
Gimp is needlessly unintuitive. I've used a ton of programs since I was 10 - I've ran Paint Shop Pro (JASC days), Corel Painter, Photoshop (all versions since 7), Krita, Inkscape, a tiny program called Paintstorm Studio, various Oekakis when those were a thing, paint tool SAI, and now Procreate. I have NEVER seen a program weirder than GIMP. People defend GIMP with the old "just because it's not Photoshop doesn't mean it's bad". My dude I've used programs that were entirely in Japanese and they made more sense than GIMP. The way the tools function and where they're located makes no sense.
And now Krita does 99% of everything you'd need GIMP for as the average person (cropping, filters, a bit of editing). There's not a good reason to get GIMP. I'm genuinely confused because the features are there, I'm not sure why they don't reskin the damn thing already.
Thing is.
I've used GIMP for the better part of the last 15 years...
Now everything else makes no sense. I tried Kita multiple times already and it never works out and I go back to GIMP.
GIMP broke me, rebuilt me and made into one of their own.
Krita? I always have liked Ubuntu Studio, pretty sweet distro for most stuff.
So reposts are still a thing.
well the rule says you gotta post something
Yeah, there's no way to make the comm work without allowing reposts
yeah yall aint gonna catch me using linux at school, besides the times i used linux at school. just dual boot in case windows would be more convenient
aint gonna catch me using linux at school, besides the times i used linux at school
Well yeah
I've heard Krita is better for drawing than GIMP.
gimp is good, just takes some time to get used to things, and knowledge of when you should be using inkscape instead
real though. every time ive tried to use gimp it's a struggle to make anything lol. im dumb though.
I've seen people use it before, and they can make some great stuff, but everytime I've tried, I can't even get the brush tool to work.
GIMP has an odd workflow. I couldn't tell you the amount of times I have done the specific sequence of Select -> Select.Grow -> Select.Border -> (optional)Select.Feather -> manually fill in selection with active brush. If you ran an ellipse select while holding shift for step 1, that would be one of the better ways to draw a circular outline in GIMP lmao
Plus the number of times I've run a 0.5 size Gaussian Blur to soften the noise after running another filter
yup. I use gimp but i installed photogimp to make it slightly easier for me to get the hotkeys
The only time someone said something about my Linux desktop in class, they said it looked pretty :)