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GIMPs UI is steaming hot pile of shit unfortunately. It's very powerful yes, but the UI is really hard to figure out.
gtk3 is coming π
I canβt wait for that steaming pile of hot UI garbage to be on the hottest of GUI toolkits that came out in 2011
GTK 3 ?? They've sure taken their sweet time with it
hasn't it been coming for like a million years
Can't say I agree.
That said, this probably isn't true if someone is transitioning from Photoshop, which is probably the context of this discussion. I have seen people who start with Gimp without knowing Photoshop and they got into it fairly quick.
Using Gimp and expecting the same logic and structure as Photoshop will indeed lead to initial difficulties.
I don't want to get into a war here. Am sure there's things more complicated in Gimp than PS, but also vice versa.
Either way, I know a number of people who do stunning work with Gimp in little time.
I often find this is the biggest obstacle with moving people to FOSS solutions. People want an alternative to Photoshop, so you show them Gimp, and they immediately get frustrated because they try to apply the logic and design philosophies of Photoshop to Gimp. People want an alternative to Windows, so you show them Linux, and they immediately get frustrated because they try to apply the logic and design philosophies of Windows to Linux. And then when it doesn't work the same way, then obviously that is a deficiency of the alternative, and not simply them having to learn a new way of doing things.
There's a project by Diolinux called PhotoGimp, which aims to make Gimp look like Photoshop. It also changes all the keybinds to match those of PS.
Sadly it hasnβt had a new release in 2 years. It will probably go the way of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMPshop, which aimed to do the same before it was discontinued
Read the comment I responded to. They are talking about this project, which I commented about, and has not had a release in 2 years
https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP
Ah, yes.
Sorry. I deleted my comment. Misread and thought this was about Gimp itself.
Oh wow, I never noticed, and it's not even been two years since I've started using it. Whoops.
Well then, I'm gonna go try and figure out how to run Affinity in Wine.
Gimp 3.0 should help afiak
fortunately there's some great people making awesome tutorials!