(on a side note does anyone know any good foss photo editors that are good for making memes)
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My vote would be this guy for hottest character in star trek:
As for photo editors I use gimp.
Weird Borg ship. So hot right now.
I second GIMP
re side question: I’m new to meming, image editing generally, and FOSS image editors.
Over the last month or so, I’ve tried a bunch except for Gimp (which the last time I checked had about 3.4 trillion things I don’t need) for meming:
- A Photo Tool Libre
- Dibuja
- Krita
- Ksnip
- Pinta
- Photoflare
- probably some more I’ve forgotten
… and I keep coming back to Photopea (actually, Photocrea, a locally-installed version of Photopea). And it’s not because I’m some Photoshop expert who finds it familiar. I’m an ingenue, who somehow can work out and (often) achieve what I want in Photopea, unlike the FOSS options.
All the others have issues for me, ranging from annoying niggles to absolute showstoppers. Just yesterday, I finally lost it with Krita and rage-uninstalled it.
The only FOSS ones I sometimes use are Ksnip (a screenshot tool with some editing features) and Pinta (for barely more than scaling and cropping), and I shudder at the thought of dealing with its UI. (Libadwaita, i.e. “fuck you, your OS, your theme and everything you ever thought you knew about UIs!”)
I also managed to install a CLI tool for some basic meming:
Over the last month or so, I’ve tried a bunch except for Gimp (which the last time I checked had about 3.4 trillion things I don’t need) for meming
That is a good point. As much as I like to use GIMP to make memes and encourage others to do so as well, if that is the only task you need it for, it is just overkill (and more importantly, confusing). It is a great software for me to make memes with because I am so familiar with it, including knowing which tools are useful for making memes (and more importantly, which are unnecessary for the task). But if you just want to stitch two images together and add some text, all the buttons and menus could sure be overwhelming.
Yeah, the last time I tried out Gimp, the menus had so many options, they didn’t even fit on my screen and I had to scroll up and down just to see them all.
I’ve heard of a Gimp mod called Photogimp that makes the UI more like Photoshop. I wonder if it would be possible for someone to make a “Basicgimp” mod, where, by default, the UI only contains the basics needed for meming, and the rest could be turned on/off ticking a box for “Full UI”.
