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A guy went to adobe.com and told the truth (community.adobe.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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[–] 17 points 3 months ago (8 children)

In his most recent video he complains that switching to GIMP was too difficult

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  • [–] 28 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I love Foss projects and I try to be as positive as I can be. There are several programs that while having a learning curve are actually usable, but gimp is so user hostile its insane.

    How in the ever living fuck does it not have a god damn circle tool. Why the fuck can't I rotate selections in real time, I need to precalculate the angle and pray it's correct.

    And those are just 2 things I encountered while trying to make a shitty image of pinkie pie as Dante Alighieri 2 days ago. I can't imagine having to actually learn it to replace Photoshop for work.

    And it's so intentionally shitty, inkscape has a UX that's at least 10 times better, 1000 times since they actually let you draw a god damn circle ffs.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Instead of separate dedicated shape tools, in gimp you use the appropriate shape of Selection tool to create the shape(s), then you either add the fill and/or border of the style you want, or use 'Stroke selection' to choose from various draw/paint tools/styles. So for a circle you use the Ellipse Selection tool.

    You can use any of the transformation tools, including Rotate, on the selection vs the image contents --you choose the tool option for which thing you want it to apply to. You can drag or enter a specific number.

    (this is just information for anyone who wants to know how to do the things you mentioned. I'm not interested in talking about how good or shitty the programs are or comparing them)

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  • [+] -24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Why would I draw a circle in a photo editing suite?

    Maybe you need something different?

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It's actually a valid thing to need. If nothing else, circular masks are much easier to do when you don't have to go and search for a png of a circle for a task that should've been over by the time you hit enter in the search bar. I understand GIMP is made with entirely volunteer work, and people shouldn't be hostile towards anything FOSS unless given good reason, but there are very good reasons people cannot switch to GIMP.

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