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Will GIMP get multi-layer selection this decade?

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no. I think Krita will become a good GIMP replacement before GIMP gets any significant updates (even though they decided to shift their focus away from that completely for now)

krita is a paint program.
gimp is image editing.

True, but it's important to emphasize that currently gimp can do operations on multiple layers, the difference is that this is done through linking layers and layer groups. But yes, i also agree it could be better and that multiple selection of layers is more intuitive.

>before GIMP gets any significant updates
Just to be clear, even if gimp's development has been slow compared to krita for example, it's still constantly being worked on. The current development version already has a lot of improvements. You people can check in the following links if you're interested, currently the development version is pretty good:
wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Release:2.10_changelog
wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Roadmap
wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Hacking:TODO

Gimp is poor man's Photoshop
don't waste your time with it

It's a shame they release the worst least stable versions as stable.

Adobe shill eat a dick. There is no amount of money that can make me RENT shit Adobeware.

gimp looks like some shitty cluttered windows 95 program. it literally froze in time. try krita, inkscape or something else, op.

PS is better and it's actually the only choice if you want to work in a pro field. But it's literal botnet with a very shitty businesses model. What's the point of using it when you can use an another very capable image editor which is free as in free speech?

>suggesting to use a vector editor instead of a raster one
Why do you think it's important for you to write about things you know nothing about?

let's talk about Krita. it's awesome, just downloaded it for wangblows

it's okay if you are an artist I guess. Right know it has about 2x times less features than GIMP with plugins, though.

anything would be more usable, that's the point you gimpcuck.

How is a completely different usecase usable at all for that use case?

Over the years I've had gimp and photoshop, and somehow I learned how to use photoshop. I originally thought this was just due to my lack of skill in gimp.

But recently I tried Krita (for normal editing, not paint), and wow it's amazing. Definitely my go to from now on for this kinda stuff on linux.

>half of this thread is krita-posting
Sup Forums can't even tell the difference between raster and vector

Yep.
And Inkscape is poor man's Illustrator. Did you know that GPU accel is a low priority on their roadmap? Yet the lack thereof makes using it almost unbearable. You'll move something, see screen tearing, and then parts of the screen will be corrupted (they'll show a false/past state of parts of the canvas) until you actually pan the screen around.

Why can't freeware be good?
Why can't communism just werk?

(Oh, and it's a laggy mess, too, while all of that is happening. Low priority.)

Gimp is one of the worst pieces of software I have ever used.

Supporting links:
wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Roadmap#Inkscape_1.5_.7E_Stabilization
superuser.com/questions/1024629/inkscape-extremely-slow-on-new-powerful-computer
>Your laptop is fine. It is actually more than well-equipped to handle working with vector graphics.
>The issue here is with Inkscape, itself, which renders to screen quite slowly, due to a complete lack of GPU acceleration.
>Really, this needs to be fixed in Inkscape, which can be become unbearably slow, even when working on modest projects.

I don't really understand. You can export raster images from Krita...

Krita is a raster editor though. It's just not as feature rich as GIMP in terms of editing itself so when people recommending it over GIMP you know that these people don't really spent that much time with either program.

gimp is a sort of multi-paradigm kinda program, there's probly lots of subsets of that which might be completely replicated by another program like krita. Doesn't mean they don't use it, just that not everyone needs every feature for their problem domain.

still means they don't really use it. Your image manipulating needs must be very tame if Krita is enough for you, so recommending it over GIMP as a PS alternative is not right.

Same goes for PS, people use it for lots of things that don't require the full suite of tools it has available. PS isn't a good option for anything and plenty of people can get by with less than an exact duplicate. Free software guys do better when they focus on specific features and develop and polish that specific rather than the ugly suite stuff anyway. Unix philosophy just happens to work best.

gimp is still even-worse-than-krita lacking in cmyk support and nondestructive layers, both of which were at one point targeted for 2.0
gimp is now in v.2.10
v.2.0 released on christmas 2000, before many people who will read this post were born
krita may be standard open sores bad and has a creepy furry mascot, but gimp is "just run it through troff" tiers of bad "i don't-do-it-so-no-one-cares" autism
realtalk as someone who gets paid for this shit, cs > krita > pdn > just doing 10 extra hours of work to pay for cs > going back to x-actos and screentone > mspaint > gimp

Krita is more for drawing imo

>Krita is more for drawing imo
that's the thing with how bad gimp is, a mediocre hobbyist "draw things and also raster edit them for effects" soft is better at raster editing than a terribad "raster edit peppers onto things" soft. the cmyk support alone in krita makes it superior for any job ever going to print, even if it only supplied cmyk-supporting raw pixel edits and gimp supplied photoshop-level but only rgb editing.

FAWK YEA INVERTED 666 IS DA MOS METAL youtube.com/watch?v=_JvFEPEPbiA
EDITIN PEPPAS ON THE WALLS OF THE CHURCH \M/

>Free software guys do better when they focus on specific features and develop and polish that specific rather than the ugly suite stuff anyway
Not an option in this case. Also, what is Blender and Emacs?
>standard open sores bad
asshole.
That being said - it's literally impossble to work in a pro field without Adobe products.

Well emacs is really just a lisp interpreter with a whole ecosystem of individual things. Blender is pretty cool in that the foundation actually writes things they need as it comes up. Also one of the few genuinely good things from libre lands. They've got their own funding and experts so can do shit on a pretty unusual scale for that sort of project.

The general model for open source projects is much smaller and remote and doesn't do well with generalization. GUI programming is hell and GTK is hell^2 so fuck GIMP anyway. I imagine what most people are after could be done in some obscure imagemagick/etc CLI script they just don't want to learn that.

>still can't make proper circles in GIMP

imagemagick is another option, i'd definitely rather imagemagick arbitrary bit patterns like i'd use avisynth than i would use gimp.

...

>be stoopid
>not know how to use your computer to draw simple shapes
>call others triggered

>six clicks
>constant colorspace warning
>THIS DEFINITELY WORKS EVEN THOUGH IT'S MORE WORK THAN LITERAL COPYPASTE FROM PAINT

I am sorry you are so retarded. I hope you live long enough for it to be cured.

i'm sorry you're autistic and want to chant half a grimoire of stupid shit at gimp to get it to do what any normal raster editor does at a click, have you considered installing sourcemage to both tickle your autism and make you too occupied with busywork to bothher non-autists

Now this is triggered. You should stick to playing video games.

tldr if you don't like open source image editing software since you tried gimp and it was hard to use, try krita instead

>(You) in screenshot

draw a filled circle

ezpz

now do it for print without colorspace errors appearing in your console window
if you do you can collect the $1,000 bounty for fixing that shit

>>>/tumblr/

>REEEEEEEEEEEE you're not traditionalist enough, gb2/tumblr/
>wait, printing with ink on paper doesn't count as traditional, right?
lol you're as dumb as the literally five or six total nazis who thought they were actually socialist, enjoy being purged

I like you. You seem unhinged and the cute kind of stupid.

I've literally used Clip Studio for all my GIMP/Photoshop needs. Works perfectly under wine, too.

it is for now, that's why I wrote >WILL BECOME

Have a good sleep?

fake news
I actually used it to convert images I made in GIMP to CMYK. This shit is more powerful than people think.
or you can use a round brush which is here by default or you can create a brush to be any shape.

Creating a brush is a fun solution, I agree.
Heck, you can even use Python to program a circle. ;3

I like open source software that respects my freedoms, but it isn't the end-all for me. GIMP is such fucking shite, why can't adobe port over their macOS suite to linux so I don't have to keep my dual-boot and waste my time booting into another OS to use their fucking suite?

>Why can't freeware be good?
>Why can't communism just werk?

>what is blender

GIMP devs are just incompetent.

>GIMP devs are just incompetent.
Wrong, they are Ph.D in Maths recipients who don't give a shit about children wanting to quickly make memes.

Gimp + Blender is a powerful suite of hardware; just because you can't use it properly doesn't make it bad.

>putting gimp in the same sentence as blender

Wash your fucking keyboard

>Gimp + Blender is a powerful suite of hardware
Not hardware, also they suck, you'd only want to use them if there isn't other choises. Such as: PS and 3dsmax

GIMP and Blender are shit only used by the most rabid freetards or amateur hobbyists

Install Krita

>Blender is only used by the most rabid freetards or amateur hobbyists
>NASA
>Marvel Studios
>New Line Cinema
hmmm

he's right though

gimp is a piece of shit

requires doing 30 extra steps to do anything any other image editing program can do in one

and its users and developers collectively have their heads up their ass and think it's good design despite literally everyone telling them the UI is utter trash. It seems that these gimp fanboys have adapted to the criticism by ignoring it, rather than fixing the problems.

Which is why gimp will eventually be deprecated and replaced by an actual image editing program that does what people want.

reminder that the successor to mspaint literally has better image manipulation tools than GIMP

Well to be fair, anything can be better than GIMP...

look at this gui. now that's how you make something that even a child can easily navigate. fuck gimp.

>abortion.webm
kek

green is my pepper

>Wrong, they are Ph.D in Maths recipients who don't give a shit about children wanting to quickly make memes.
Doesn't make them good interface designers.

Doesn't make them bad interface designers. I love the GIMP triple window approach. I think it looks good in single window mode as well.
We both have assholes.

>gimp will eventually be deprecated and replaced by an actual image editing program that does what people want.
I hear this for about ten years already. All we got is Krita which has about half of GIMP functionality and it's most likely to be deprecated earlier than GIMP because all they can do is to create crowdfunding campaigns and pay one programmer. GIMP devs has an actual work to do besides working on GIMP. They work on it because even after all these years they still enjoy doing it. This is the true spirit of free software. If you don't like GIMP - fork it because it's source is open for everyone.

>Doesn't make them bad interface designers.
People untrained in something are by default more likely to be bad at it.

If no arguments are brought forth to support them being good or at least not bad interface designers, it is parsimonious to assume that they are bad interface designers.

How the FUCK do I paste into a selection? Why is this program deliberately hard to use?

You could cut the selection out, make it a new layer, paste into it and merge it down again.

Enjoy your hopefully incredibly long life.