Photo Pea is where it’s at. Browser based Photoshop clone. Unless you’re doing art, then go with Krita.
Gimp is needlessly unintuitive. I’ve used a ton of programs since I was 10 - I’ve ran Paint Shop Pro (JASC days), Corel Painter, Photoshop (all versions since 7), Krita, Inkscape, a tiny program called Paintstorm Studio, various Oekakis when those were a thing, paint tool SAI, and now Procreate. I have NEVER seen a program weirder than GIMP. People defend GIMP with the old “just because it’s not Photoshop doesn’t mean it’s bad”. My dude I’ve used programs that were entirely in Japanese and they made more sense than GIMP. The way the tools function and where they’re located makes no sense.
And now Krita does 99% of everything you’d need GIMP for as the average person (cropping, filters, a bit of editing). There’s not a good reason to get GIMP. I’m genuinely confused because the features are there, I’m not sure why they don’t reskin the damn thing already.
Thing is.
I’ve used GIMP for the better part of the last 15 years…
Now everything else makes no sense. I tried Kita multiple times already and it never works out and I go back to GIMP.GIMP broke me, rebuilt me and made into one of their own.
Gimp’s brushes leave a lot to be desired. Photoshop has had vector like brushes for years, Krita has them as well these days, but it still feels like Gimp has rastery pixels on the edge of brushes.
Given that I typically used GIMP for pixel art when I got started, that was never really a problem for my use case. These days I try to use Aseprite for that purpose but GIMP was able to do what I needed it to easily enough while being free and easy to download. It’s got its limits but it’s what I know. These days I mostly use it for its relatively unique (and charmingly janky) filters as well as regular contrast/hue/etc adjustments
Pixel art might be an exception, you’re right. But to be fair, people can make pixel art in Paint. I mean, I’m sure it’s not fun to do it in Paint, but it’s very much the “ballpoint pen on notebook paper” of digital art.
Oh don’t get me wrong, I do know that GIMP is not the best, but I rarely ever use it anyways and then never have the time to really dig into something else.
If it works for you, I’m happy. I’m just frustrated when GIMP is recommended to newbies looking into FOSS art programs. I think a lot of people have the wrong idea about FOSS art programs because thier first introduction was GIMP. As a result I feel like we have a lot more people who are in the apple ecosystem, when in reality being artistic shouldn’t necessarily come paired with really expensive products. I mean most artists are broke and creative, and a lot of them have very left leaning ideals. FOSS art programs and cheaper hardware should be a natural fit, IMO.
If it works for you, I’m happy. I’m just frustrated when GIMP is recommended to newbies looking into FOSS art programs.
Don’t you worry then, I will never ever recommended GIMP. When asked today, I recommended Krita and Inkscape (for Vectors)
Hugs to you. Honestly I just want the hardware support for drawing tablets to get better (on Linux), and I want Krita to work well on Android eventually. I bought an iPad even though I own nothing in the Apple ecosystem because it’s just the wiser choice when it comes to drawing tablets with screens. But it’s so much better than the days people told me to “just get GIMP, it’s like Photoshop but free” - also the nightmare of trying to make my Wacom tablet work in Ubuntu… Dark days. We’ve come so far.
I see again, I appear to be one of the few since I have an old Wacom Tablet with good support on Linux. It’s admittedly one of those without a screen, though.
If I remember correctly, that unintuitiveness is by design. From what I saw they seem really perturbed by the notion that it should function how most people use similar programs.
Gimpshop was a thing (where they moved the tools to make it look more like Photoshop) but the Gimp people got upset.
You can still set up PhotoGIMP but it’s not good IMO. Making something unintuitive on purpose is strange and oddly elitist. Procreate is totally different than Photoshop but both programs have designs that make sense. Hell, I prefer Inkscapes interface to Illustrator. Nobody says you have to copy the paid product as long as your interface actually makes sense.
gimp is good, just takes some time to get used to things, and knowledge of when you should be using inkscape instead
I’ve heard Krita is better for drawing than GIMP.
real though. every time ive tried to use gimp it’s a struggle to make anything lol. im dumb though.
I’ve seen people use it before, and they can make some great stuff, but everytime I’ve tried, I can’t even get the brush tool to work.
GIMP has an odd workflow. I couldn’t tell you the amount of times I have done the specific sequence of Select -> Select.Grow -> Select.Border -> (optional)Select.Feather -> manually fill in selection with active brush. If you ran an ellipse select while holding shift for step 1, that would be one of the better ways to draw a circular outline in GIMP lmao
Plus the number of times I’ve run a 0.5 size Gaussian Blur to soften the noise after running another filter
yup. I use gimp but i installed photogimp to make it slightly easier for me to get the hotkeys
Man, this was stale pasts 10 years ago, never would have thought it would have legs for miles
So reposts are still a thing.
well the rule says you gotta post something
Yeah, there’s no way to make the comm work without allowing reposts
Krita? I always have liked Ubuntu Studio, pretty sweet distro for most stuff.
yeah yall aint gonna catch me using linux at school, besides the times i used linux at school. just dual boot in case windows would be more convenient
aint gonna catch me using linux at school, besides the times i used linux at school
Well yeah
As much as I love gimp, the struggle is real
https://github.com/LinSoftWin/Photoshop-CC2022-Linux is the solution