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This should be helpful for people that learned Photoshop in the past (for work or in school). From what I understand, a lot of the friction with GIMP is the workflow differences, and potentially unintuitive UI/UX choices.
tldr: recovering Adobe Photoshop user shows you features in the very free and very open source gnu image manipulation program :D
my relevant GIMP config files: https://github.com/BreadOnPenguins/dots/tree/master/.config/GIMP/3.0
GIMP documentation: https://www.gimp.org/docs/
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Krita is better and doesn’t have a non-professional, ableist name.
Could you please explain what you mean by “professional ableist name”?
GIMP is a slur for people with disabilities, therefore it isn’t a name many professional artists, nor those that care about ableism will like.
The program started off as IMP, Image Manipulation Program. They added a G (General) to make it a reference to a character in Pulp Fiction.
The name’s history has nothing to do with ableism. Besides, not many artists care; look up what a “gimping machine” is :).
Words can have multiple meanings and context matters a lot. Besides its usage as a slur is pretty outmoded by now.
Well, it is still considered that by disabled people and that is who really matters in all this.
Until they drop the name, it’ll continue being considered unprofessional and not in good standing with those of us who care about disabled people, especially if we are disabled ourselves.
PhotoGIMP is a godsend.
Sounds like a good resource, but I prefer documentation over videos for how-to guides. I’m glad you posted this, though, thanks.
She also recommends the documentation several times in the video, this is just an explanation of the features in comparison to ps
That’s really good. I just don’t watch videos, so…
I do understand that many, many people prefer how-to videos, so, like I said, I am very glad that this video exists.
As a life-long pirate, having full MS Office, Macromedia and Adobe packages weren’t ever a problem, but one day I decided to start using FOSS stuff… and man, getting into GIMP was damn painful, oh, the horror!
I’m very glad for photopea.com when I need to do some quick stuff, but for GIMP, this guy here made a very cool setup to help us Photoshop users https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMPThe same with Darktable and Lightroom.
Darktable is more powerful (a few thinhs missing though, like panos) but it’s UI is way different and super complex.
If you haven’t already, give RawTherapee a try. I can’t compare it to Lightroom, but I find it a lot easier to use than Darktable.
Every time I’ve tried gimp I walked away frustrated. I left photoshop behind long ago, only ever used it for messing around. But everything just kind of made sense. I felt like none of the skills I learned transferred to gimp, and I was always fighting against the design language.
I’ve saved this video to give a watch later, thanks for posting.
I had that in the beginning too. Once you’re used to the basics you’ll find that most of what you’ve learnt does transfer though.
I think part of the problem, at least for me coming from 20 years on photoshop, was searching for “how do I do this advanced technique in GIMP” before learning the basic layout/structure/tools etc.
YMMV but I highly recommend watching an hour or two of an introductory GIMP course. It’s what made it click for me.
I feel you.
I recommend checking photopea.com, it’s a very light photoshop webversion that can do almost everything photoshop can do, a very cool tool.This is proprietary (and running in a web browser does not make it less so)
