How do you prove that GIMP is awful (besides using it for yourself)? Simple. Tell me how to draw a circle in GIMP.
I'm all about free software, but my god is GIMP an abomination in terms of being user-friendly. Something as fundamental, simple, and trivial as drawing a circle is somehow turned into a multi-step process in GIMP. It is completely unintuitive and inconvenient.
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FFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
It might be unintuitive and inconvenient, but it works.
There.
..aw damn.
>Make a circle with select tool
>Edit
>Stroke path
>Choose how thick you want the circle
That's it.
>Add shapes plugin.
>Drag, drop, adjust. Done.
We don't need any proof, everybody who has used both Photoshop and GIMP should agree that GIMP is unusable.
honestly just stick to MS Paint if you're this retarded
ftw
good try buddy, almost there!
speaking of Gimp, i am pretty new to Linux and not really interested in learning this shit
I'm looking for something ez and simple like MS Paint. Not doing anything professional at all I like to make funny pictures to post on forums sometimes, any suggestions?
Using a photography editing software for creating geometrical figures.
kys
Pinta is a lot like Paint.NET if you have used it.
Kolourpaint
"drawing" in Gimp
It's not a fucking drawing program. Neither is fucking photoshop.
You can draw in Karbon. You can draw in Inkscape. You can draw in Corel Draw. You can draw in various CAD programs. You can draw in Blender.
But drawing in Photoshop or Gimp is like the idiot who uses Excel as a database program.
Kolourpaint
Pinta or LazPaint are good, but unstable and somewhat experimental in some parts.
>pinta
yeah just looked in muh store and searched paint this was first result, will install
>kolourpaint
alright this one looks even ms paintier than pinta. ty for tip, installed
here's your you i feel bad
Grafx2 is where its at. Super comfy.
It doesn't look like Paint and will eat your battery though.
>Thank you, SDL2.
select tool (circular)
selection to path
export path (as circle.svg)
worse at drawing a circle than gimp
GIMP documentation states as much
Kolourpaint
Bullshit
Looks kind of like deluxe paint and can run on dos. Very lightweight.
Just use LibreOffice Draw.
While GIMP2 can be used for drawing, that is not its expressed purpose.
“14.2. Creating a Basic Shape.” 14.2. Creating a Basic Shape, The GIMP Foundation, docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-using-rectangular.html.
But it's free...
Krita FTW!
Can do the same as G'Mic is portable.
So is LibreOffice Draw
>Looks kind of like deluxe paint and can run on dos. Very lightweight.
Still drains your battery, because SDL2 (which it is built on) requires a polling main loop.
>Bullshit
OK i was wrong that is pretty gud.
It uses sdl 1.2 and I don't use a laptop so battery usage is irrelevant for me.
nvm, they are still working on the port
quote from the repo:
>SDL2 is really broken.
Confirms my impression so far.
>Draw a circle in autoCAD. flat circle, no spheres.
>This is hard! God, autoCAD is trash! I'm going back to MS paint.
Most gimp hate comes from morons who install gimp and only gimp because it's a well known name isntead of using actual paint programs
linux users are fucking retards these days. too many windows luser transplants looking for the same big name "do it all suite" type software they're used to. it's a moron's way of thought. move these transplants out of their comfort zone and into trying software they haven't heard of on Sup Forums and their window$s caveman instincts kick in
>WHAT IF IT VIRUS? WHAT IF PAINT STEAL MY CREDIT CARD? OHNO
>ME INSTALL GIMP, GIMP FAMILIAR
Portable and FUN.
Draw a straight line in GIMP.
You literally can't. You have to export the imagine, use another program, then reimport it into GIMP. They literally call it "line batching" where they structure their workflow around grouping all the lines they need to draw together so that they can minimize the number of times they need to export and import the image to save time.
>click
>press shift
>optionally press ctrl for properly angled line
>click to second point
wew lad that was hard
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I already know that, they call it "batch watching" where they structure their day around grouping all the anime they'll watch together so that they can minimize the number of times they need to reboot into Windows to save time.
>It's not a fucking drawing program. Neither is fucking photoshop.
But Photoshop is.
Pretty much this.
I've been teaching my wife that it's different programs that do different things, like a web browser is not part of the OS like Microsoft tries to convince you of *in court* even. Over 25 years of Microsoft brainwashing I have to overcome.
But she's learning. She's running KDE Neon, at her insistence because she did /not/ want to be forced into 'upgrading' from 7 to 10. KDE isn't hard for Windows transplants. It's kinda familiar in some ways because it takes concepts from nearly every GUI, even OS/2's Workplace Shell.
I find that the people with the most problems on a Linux machine are those 'power users' that learned how to wave a specific type of dead chicken and chant the correct REGEDIT mantra at Windows to get it to do things.
>But Photoshop is.
No it isn't. Just because you /can/ doesn't mean Photoshop's purpose is to draw.
You use a drawing program to draw. Because the workflow is better - the drawing program's interface is centered around actually drawing instead of things like dodge-and-burn.
I'll bet that you use Excel as a database.
My issue with Krita is all the fucking dependencies-- I don't want KDE on my fucking system
Yeah, it's impossible to use GIMP after getting used to photoshop
But it is professional standart for many CG artists, it sucks for logos and that kind of vector stuff, but great for digital paintings, pic related from top of my head.
Use the circle selection tool then convert it to a stroke
Appimage
That's actually a pretty good thing for this. I save at least 30MB that way.
A slow step by step guide for you my dude
What if you want to change the border size or resize that circle
Photoshop started as much what GIMP was: A program for manipulating photos and images.
However, now it is Adobe's primary art program and does both. This is why there's a "Painting" UI setup in Adobe, and many artistically-focused brushes.
Then you shoulf have done it correctly in the first place.
But here, another webm, doing just that.
You don't have to convert it to a stroke. There's a "Stroke selection" option.
Wrong.
>that non-existent anti-aliasing
GIMP sure is a viable alternative to Photoshop
Then why the fuck does it have a complex painting engine and a brush tool?
Basically what I meant but didn't post, post made from memory.
Also to address the thread in general, gimp is an image manipulation program, not an image creation tool. If people can use it that way then great but it's really just a tool for manipulation!
I didn't bother with it, but here, set whatever aliasing you want.
I never hear people mention inkscape which sucks, its open source plus is pretty easy to work with.
That still looks like shit and should be done automatically.
How do you prove that PS is awful? Simple. Tell me how much you payed for it.
>he thinks photoshop has any specific single purpose
this needs to stop, the only way we'll ever get a decent way for 2d/graphics things on Linux is if we realise that photoshop with its everything-and-the-kitchen-sink approach is not suitable for the FOSS development model. Have a seperate application for vector editing, one for drawing, one for whatever "manipulating photos and images" is supposed to mean. Have one thing do multiple things is fucking stupid.
anyway, photoshop has tons of functionality that is useful _only_ if you're using it for drawing/digital painting. For example, rotating the canvas. Obviously the brush engine. And much more.
But user, you don't have to pay for it.
>baby duck syndrome and proud of it
For logos and vector stuff you would rather use Inkscape than GIMP.
The problem with you guys is simple: You're used to Photoshop and too lazy to learn a new program.
The python scripting feature makes GIMP limitless better than any other image editor anyway. Want a new function? Write it, implement it. Want to use your program in Photoshop? Well, bad news.
The menu is plain shit.
You can never get it back to normal if you close one pane.
GG no re.
Maybe, but GIMP is a nightmare to use. Why even bother? Everything is very inconvenient and Photoshop's way of doing things is just much, much better.
>using gimp so much that you're actually familiar with its ins and outs
I pity you.
Also, . The result is bumpy as fuck and you know it. Pause the webm at 0:13 and look at the top, bottom, and middle height of the circle
i'll be honest, photoshop and alot of adobe software is sexy as fuck, but until they give away the source i'm out.
>need a plugin to do what even paint does natively
A proprietary program is never better than a free program.
A proprietary program is a security risk, it doesn't allow you to change how it works or to extend it like
>The result is bumpy as fuck and you know it.
It's okay, just make it huge as fuck and scale it down :^)
>A proprietary program is never better than a free program.
>being this delusional
I love free software too but let's face it, GIMP is just garbage compared to Photoshop.
>
yo, mister wizard, how do I fix this annoying-as-fuck and ten year old bug that I'm sure you have encountered?
fat thace when
Pinta - paint.NET alternative
Kolourpaint - MS Paint alternative
I don't know senpai, I don't even use Gimp that much.
When does it occur? Looks like intended subpixel rendring to me.
want to know how else you know gimp is shit?
make a canvas of more than 100000x1000000 with only 8 gigs of ram and see what happens
Doesn't happen to me when I just make some text
All that memeing and nobody addressing the real major flaws of gimp?
>can only select/operate on one layer at a time
>no smart objects
>no history snapshots
Not him, but it's not proper subpixel rendering. the green-ish outline in the text will be there even if you're doing white text on a black background, which looks really atrocious.
There are ways to work around it, but fuck me if I remember right now.
...
I think it's exclusive to users of the Infinality font patches.
but I looked into it and bothered to use the fix as outlined in the first post of bbs.archlinux.org
even worked.
>the green-ish outline in the text will be there even if you're doing white text on a black background
Well that's a bug then, but I'm not getting it. Or am I doing something wrong to not trigger it?
here if it will post "art" made in gimp
made this "art"
>but I'm not getting it
To be honest, neither am I anymore. But it does exist and I remember googling how to fix it, which is probably why it's not afflicting me anymore.
Looks interesting desu
literally this. anyone who can't do this is a fucking ape
>they bothered to implement scripting support but could not be arsed for a quick outline box in the Text tool
JUST
thank
also turned this...
whoa dude, that's like, so deep and stuff
whoaaaaa
...into this
What is this?
Looks cool, too bad you had to break your TV for it.
Go to synaptic to check out krita and what do I see? A list of the entire KDE base libs and tools just for one paint program! Any other bright ideas that doesn't involve installing an entire DE base just for one simple fucking program?
>inb4 hurr disk space is cheap
Not the fucking point bloatfag
It's not mine, the broken TV image is from somewhere here on Sup Forums. He made a thread about how he broke his TV and I stole his image.
Sometimes I take images and just apply random filters to them
Yeah I was just kidding. Your art looks cool though, have somewhere you upload it to?