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    [–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    why don't people use krita? Gimp may be the most famous photoshop alternative, but I almost never hear anyone talk about others that may potentially be better.

    [–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

    Krita is better for some things but I find Gimp's workflow easier for me in a lot of things

    Krita's Wacom tablet support, though, was way smoother and easier to get working with Krita, which is the main reason I even tried it out

    [–] Azzu@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I have no idea how selection works anywhere else, since I only ever used gimp.

    For me, I don't understand this meme, selection seems to work very intuitively, it seems to do what I expect it to do.

    [–] Anamana@feddit.de 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

    work very intuitively

    I only ever used gimp

    [–] Routhinator@startrek.website 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

    Lol, all these GIMP haters who don't seem to understand the goal was being on par with Photoshop when it was a desktop application. It works exactly like Photoshop always did. And I agree, selection makes sense. There were many apps that worked the same.. Paint Shop Pro as well.

    I guess the kids have all grown up with some other tools and would rather call things they don't understand stupid than try to grasp where the tool came from.

    I'm not sure how Krita is different but then again I haven't used it. I installed it, saw it looked like a fork of GIMP, and stuck with what I knew. Which is probably what anyone who hates GIMP should do.

    [–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago (17 children)

    It works exactly like Photoshop always did.

    Unequivocally false (source: been a PS user since version 7)

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    [–] WallEx@feddit.de 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    I dont really know photo editing, could someone explain?

    [–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

    It takes a while to figure out how selections in Gimp work.

    It whenever you select you have created a mask and when you combine it with layers it can get very confusing.

    If you accidentally select a small bit you cannot edit anything else. I think that is what OP is referring to.

    There is a tool that shows you what you have selected that can help.

    IMO Gimp isn’t very well documented so you can get stuck for a while before you understand what is going on.

    [–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    Yes, people are handicapped and entrapped by using Adobe products.

    [–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    My man GIMP is the only software I've ever seen that doesn't use CTRL+D for deselect

    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Blender uses Alt+A.

    It consistently uses Alt as a modifier to execute inverse operations. I to insert a keyframe, Alt+I to delete it. Ctrl+F to set a text filter/search, Alt+F to clear it. Ctrl+P to set parent, Alt+P to clear it. H to hide selected objects, Shift+H to hide unselected objects, Alt+H to unhide all. {G,R,S} to move/rotate/scale, Alt+{G,R,S} to reset transformations. It's not exactly industry standard, but internally consistent that makes learning it easy.

    Ctrl+D to deselect is stupid.

    [–] sirico@feddit.uk 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    Crtl shift a it's so obvious right... Right?!

    [–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 4 months ago

    I never knew about it until now and I've used GIMP often enough, but if I was going to assign a keyboard shortcut, that makes sense. Ctrl +A select all. Ctrl + Shift + A select none.

    Shift is the oppositer (reverser?). Tab goes to next field, Shift + Tab goes in reverse order. Ctrl + T open new tab in browser, Ctrl + Shift + T reopen last closed tab - OK that's not exactly opposite but close enough.

    [–] NoiseColor@startrek.website 0 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    Gimp sucks. That's why people on Linux rather use krita to edit photos and it wasn't even built to do that.

    Gimp is a horrible mistake that should literally be killed off and it should be put into a failure museum to serve as a warning and a reminder how Foss can take a wrong turn and many free development hours are spent towards building the wrong things and continue to disappoint any user that tries it.

    [–] ricdeh@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

    Absolute you problem. GIMP is some of the best and most powerful FOSS ever made, and better than most proprietary applications. But this is probably just bait anyway.

    [–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 0 points 4 months ago

    skill issue

    [–] art@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    I literally use GIMP every day at my job. It's a very powerful application that makes my life easier.

    [–] NoiseColor@startrek.website 1 points 4 months ago

    My condolences.

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