• Cyrus Draegur@lemm.ee
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    “UMMM what the fuck is that, anon?”

    “it’s a great open-source software called mind your own fucking business

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      There’s no “Shape” tool. You could just select a circular area in an empty layer and fill it though.

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      You can, it is very unintuitive though. You draw the shape using the eilpse tool and set a border for the selection.

      It’s not hard, but there is really no way to figure this out without ever looking for a tutorial.

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        It’s absolutely stupid design and more difficult than it needs to be.

        I’ll say it - Photoshop is infinitely more intuitive than gimp for the average person. Sure, if you are fucking determined, I’m sure you can figure it out eventually. You can even make it work. But if you say it is easier than Photoshop, you are wrong.

        I love FOSS stuff but way too many people are delusional about the pros and cons of it. There are absolutely cons.

        I stand with op.

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          I don’t believe that you can even figure out half of the things yourself if you are determined. There is no way you can use it without looking up tutorials for even basic things.

          I fully agree in case my precious comment wasn’t clear. It is a mess!

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        All this time I was using the ellipse tool, filling it, then shrinking my selection and deleting.

        Ah well, I learned Inkscape recently and it’s a better tool for stuff like that anyway.

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      GIMP 2 is utter dogshit in terms of user experience.

      GIMP 3, the version that is supposed to make everything easier, hasn’t been released yet. ^(it’s been years and I have given up hoping)

      The situation sucks, but there aren’t that many developers working on GIMP in the first place. Certainly not as many as Photoshop.

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      It’s genuinely not easy, but that’s because it’s a powerful tool that can change some aspects about drawing a circle.

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    Ellipse select tool (E) with shift (and optionally ctrl) pressed after starting the drag -> Edit menu -> Stroke Selection

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        Well, see GIMP is Gnu Image Manipulation Tool, not Image Creation Tool. And Linux philosophy is to do one thing well. So give GIMP a break for doing the other things poorly and with shit UX.

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          Actually GIMP is not UNIX, ur supposed to write out vector graphic coordinates with sed and then pipe them with the terminal onto this minimal C program that pre-renders the image into a SVG, and then start a cronjob which regulary checks if…

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      “Software I’m used to is easier for me than software I have no experience with.”

      What a fantastic insight.

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              “intuitiveness is objective and measurable” is such a hilarious thing to say. Like yes it’s possible to measure how quickly people can come to understand an app but to say that, therefore, we have an objective understanding of ‘intuitiveness’ and can say “Hamburger menu instead of kebab menu here??? That is O B J E C T I V E L Y unintuitive” is sooo fucking silly.

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              Not really objective in real life. There is no abstract human in a vacuum, everyone has some previous knowledge and biases. If you ever had to train a grown up how to use a mouse and the ever illusive concept of double click, you know that even with some level of skeuomorphism there is a trouble at grasping new concepts, and if we go into more complicated territory, all bets are off. Maybe for a blank slate without any prior experience existing in society and operating tools, there are some high level abstract concepts, but for a real person, intuitiveness basically means “looks familiar to a something that I personally have seen before”

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          Something being free to download doesn’t help if the paid software is so ingrained into culture, both popular and professional, that it practically has a monopoly. If you want to get work as an artist working with other people, you’ll want to learn the industry standard, not a niche program.

          That’s all aside from whether gimp actually is or isn’t better, I just think the argument make no sense.

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        You would imagine this to be obvious, but people who are used to Photoshop or Reddit complain all the time that Gimp or Lemmy are not as intuitive, as the other comments fully demonstrate.

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      I am the same. I tried Photoshop and bazillion of tools didn’t help when making a simple picture, while GIMP could do that with relatively easier steps.

      Edit: grammar, apologies.

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        This seems true though, Gimp uses the same (fairly complex) tools for most thing Photoshop has an own tool for. Have to commit I’m not that experienced with PS though