• PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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    It’s that phenomenon where people who endured trauma to attain something expect others to also endure the trauma.

    I’ve tried learning GIMP, and it sucks. I’m not saying GIMP sucks, but you have to be crazy to not see that it’s hard to learn.

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      I’ve tried learning GIMP, and it sucks. I’m not saying GIMP sucks, but you have to be crazy to not see that it’s hard to learn.

      I use GIMP for memes and here’s my two favorite tips

      • Hit the forward slash key / to open a command palette and jump to any action

      • To remove backgrounds, use a layer mask. select around the object and paint a white/black section on the layer mask. Here comes the trick: use a Gaussian filter on the layer mask to create a transition from black to white and the crop job looks a lot less choppy.

      My anti-tip

      • Adding text and shapes sucks and I never found a way to make it better. Export your image and finish the job in Krita, Pinta, Photopea, …
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              Smart people use terms like gaussian blur to refer to a blur distribution rather than a non technical term such as feather. Feathers are what helps birds fly for example. Let’s try:

              “You can feather the pedals on your car to make it drift.”

              “You can feather the pedals on your Ford to make it do the Tokyo style turns.”

              Which sentence was better 😂?

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      Not vonly hard to learn, it lacks some really basic stuff like undestructive ediring (adjusment layers) and such.

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        I am using 2.99.18 (non release, unstable build). Non destructive editing has landed. You can make adjustments through the usual menus and then enable/disable the adjustment under layer effects.

    • No, GIMP does suck.

      It has the same problem as most FOSS packages that are too wide in breadth and have multiple contributors with their own hobby horses pulling in all different directions, and to this day does not actually provide a feature-complete whole, nor an interface that actually makes sense. And it’s not a matter of the workflow just being different – it categorically fails to replicate functionality that is core to its commercial competitors. Numerous other “big” productivity packages have the same problem including FreeCAD (boy does it ever), LibreOffice, etc. I say this as a staunch supporter of FreeCAD, by the way. It’s the only CAD software I use even though it’s a pain in my ass.

      The shining exception to this I see is Inkscape, but it is still significantly less powerful than even early versions of CorelDraw.

      For 2D graphics work these days, I hold my nose and just use Corel. I use it for work. Like, actual commercial work. That I get paid for. It is at least a lesser evil than doing business with Adobe.

      And if you want to stick it to the man, it is easily pirated.

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      The Autodesk forums are 40% this, 20% “just learn to program, spend a few years getting good at it, then write yourself a custom script to do what you are struggling with”, 20% “you are wrong for wanting that in the first place” or “you are wrong for having this issue”, 15% “this has been brought up once at some point in the past two decades, try searching”, 4% “OMG yes I have this issue too!”…

      …and 1% split between actual helpful answers, and confirmation that it’s a known issue.

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      Photoshop is also hard to learn. What’s your point? Just because it’s different to what you used to does not means it’s more or less difficult to learn.

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        I’m not used to photoshop so I can’t say anything about that.

        I was a big fan of paint.NET but now that I stopped using Windows, it’s the only software that I really miss.

        It had fewer features than GIMP, but it was so intuitive yet surprisingly powerful.

        Have not found a similarly amazing alrernative, I wish Wine could make it work…

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          Not having Paint.NET sucked when I switched to Linux. I got very used to it and that was the one I missed most… it took a few years bouncing between programs but I’m happy with Krita now. GIMP just never clicked for me unfortunately.

          I sometimes think about making a Paint.NET clone for linux but i have too many other projects and hobbies i wanna do instead yk

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      I’ve tried learning GIMP, and it sucks. I’m not saying GIMP sucks, but you have to be crazy to not see that it’s hard to learn.

      “Im not saying it sucks but it does” How do you want us to take you seriously when you don’t even agree with yourself ?

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        They didn’t say GIMP itself sucks, they said leaning to use it sucks. Those are two different things.