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A GIMP Guide, but from a Photoshop User (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 days ago by otters_raft@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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/

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[–] FishFace@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Good thing GIMP went single window before Wayland popularity spiked.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Was there a known issue there?

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 2 days 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.