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> One of the first FOSS projects I ever used. I pirated Photoshop soon after trying it. Oh… okay. Did you also steal a car right after you learned how to drive?
You wouldn't download a car
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> The biggest stain on FOSS Pretty sure that program that is useful and usable, but not as much as you want, does not qualify for this description.
The GIMP project, while powerful, personifies all of the worst parts of OSS culture. A needlessly polarizing/antagonizing name that they've refused to change? Check. A user interface that no one but the developers could love or understand? Check. A focus on knobs for users to tweak and being far behind the rest of the industry in basic usability improvements such as "auto levels" that have been table stakes for many…
pushing the python2 interface over guile was a masterstroke
If they would just copy Photoshop... Even the 2000 version of Photoshop.
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Running in the browser is a no-go for lots of organizations, and Gimp runs in portable mode for those that can't install anything on their workstation. Yeah, it's not amazing, but Gimp is light years from Paint. Just removing background on stuff, crap like that, 80% of the graphics stuff people ask me for at work. It's not PS, it's not even Blender-levels of OSS, but it works alright. Now, compositing and actual chal…
I said that as "it is way better despite having more limited resources". You can even download the files of photopea.com locally and use it offline but that wasn't my point.
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select with a circle shape -> draw selection. Not as straightforward as possible, but still quite easy.
Alternatively, if you want a circle and not a disk, after filling the circular selection, shrink it by whatever thickness, and then delete. But I have felt no need for drawing circles. Those should be done in Inkscape. I am not sure they should be in a photo processing app.
I agree that for complex drawings where you should align multiple objects and be able to adjust the width and other properties of the color, it's better to use Inkscape.
But for throwaway screenshots with a big red arrow or a circle around the part I want to highlight, I prefer Paintbrush.
Is it possible to add to Gimp an option to draw simple forms like in Paintbrush? Perhaps as a filter or a tool. Gimp looks very customizable, but I never went into that rabbit hole.
[1] MS changed the name to "Paint" like 20 years ago, but I never got the memo.
The biggest stain on FOSS, with the worst apologists, 27 years strong! Try drawing a circle, in the year 2022.
There is a fork called Glimpse.
When Adobe hikes the prices to their SaaSS, you will still be welcome.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
GIMP is legendary. One of the first FOSS projects I ever used. I pirated Photoshop soon after trying it. Krita ( https://github.com/KDE/krita | https://krita.org/en/ ) is a more intuitive UX imo.
> One of the first FOSS projects I ever used. I pirated Photoshop soon after trying it. Oh… okay. Did you also steal a car right after you learned how to drive?
Still no adjustment layers, still no layer styles. It’s so easy to just critique away…but really? Really? Those are just absolutely essential image editing software features. What have they been prioritizing ahead of that?
At this point I don’t think it’s controversial to say that this project existing has harmed creative tools on Linux. If another project had become the de-facto we’d have all those basic features. Instead we’re stuck with something that almost provides the basics ok, because it exists people treat it like a solved problem, and it has such a history no one’s allowed to say it just frankly isn’t usable for it’s one job.
If anything, GIMP has brought more people to Linux from the dark side.
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Unless you are ideologically inclined, it would be a better use of your resources to just pay for photoshop. As much as it angers people on this website, the subscription model provides a constant stream of funding that has gone in to keeping the tool the best on the market and for anyone using it professionally, it delivers far more value than it's cost.
I don't think you have to be ideologically inclined. Photoshop is already turning on the milking machine. Subscription. Check. Paid add ons. Check. Paid color palette. Check and mark.
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At this point I don’t think it’s controversial to say that this project existing has harmed creative tools on Linux. If another project had become the de-facto we’d have all those basic features. Instead we’re stuck with something that almost provides the basics ok, because it exists people treat it like a solved problem, and it has such a history no one’s allowed to say it just frankly isn’t usable for it’s one job.
In some ways the de facto standard now is http://www.photopea.com in a browser.