• kat@lemmy.ca
    7·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Black616Angel@feddit.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • kat@lemmy.ca
        0·
        1 year ago

        Gimp’s brushes leave a lot to be desired. Photoshop has had vector like brushes for years, Krita has them as well these days, but it still feels like Gimp has rastery pixels on the edge of brushes.

        • Black616Angel@feddit.de
          0·
          1 year ago

          Oh don’t get me wrong, I do know that GIMP is not the best, but I rarely ever use it anyways and then never have the time to really dig into something else.

          • kat@lemmy.ca
            2·
            1 year ago

            If it works for you, I’m happy. I’m just frustrated when GIMP is recommended to newbies looking into FOSS art programs. I think a lot of people have the wrong idea about FOSS art programs because thier first introduction was GIMP. As a result I feel like we have a lot more people who are in the apple ecosystem, when in reality being artistic shouldn’t necessarily come paired with really expensive products. I mean most artists are broke and creative, and a lot of them have very left leaning ideals. FOSS art programs and cheaper hardware should be a natural fit, IMO.

            • Black616Angel@feddit.de
              1·
              1 year ago

              If it works for you, I’m happy. I’m just frustrated when GIMP is recommended to newbies looking into FOSS art programs.

              Don’t you worry then, I will never ever recommended GIMP. When asked today, I recommended Krita and Inkscape (for Vectors)

    • Bleu [they/them]@beehaw.org
      0·
      1 year ago

      If I remember correctly, that unintuitiveness is by design. From what I saw they seem really perturbed by the notion that it should function how most people use similar programs.

      Gimpshop was a thing (where they moved the tools to make it look more like Photoshop) but the Gimp people got upset.

      • kat@lemmy.ca
        2·
        1 year ago

        You can still set up PhotoGIMP but it’s not good IMO. Making something unintuitive on purpose is strange and oddly elitist. Procreate is totally different than Photoshop but both programs have designs that make sense. Hell, I prefer Inkscapes interface to Illustrator. Nobody says you have to copy the paid product as long as your interface actually makes sense.

    • Transwithvans@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        1 year ago

        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

  • MoltenHydrogen@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1·
    1 year ago

    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

    • priapus@lemmy.one
      1·
      1 year ago

      aint gonna catch me using linux at school, besides the times i used linux at school

      Well yeah

  • Moxvallix@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    1 year ago

    gimp is good, just takes some time to get used to things, and knowledge of when you should be using inkscape instead