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    [–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    Gimp isn't perfect. But neither is Photoshop. In fact Lightroom users grizzle that Photoshop is so much harder to use than Lightroom. It's a different animal.

    I use Pinta or Paint.Net when I want a quick edit. But Gimp has the tools for serious editing. More tools, more hard to use.

    Some Gimp things, yes! should be improved. And other things are being improved as we speak. And some things can be done on a photo much easier in Inkscape.

    I hope the whiners donated to Gimp development? No? Then just please step back, and think for a bit. If thinking is too hard, then just take a deep breath.

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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Well, at least you don't have to suck dicks or whatever to vote and post comments like in ShitStackOverflow

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

    Uh huh, uh huh. And how many dicks do I ~~get~~ have to suck per vote? Can you provide a link and very detailed instructions on the process? You know, so I can make sure I never go there before my wife comes home from work.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

    Duplicate question: 10-year-old-link-to-a-thread-that-doesn't-contain-an-answer-either

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Local schools are offering "image editing" courses, which is always just learning how to use Photoshop. They are 4 3-month courses. People just need to accept they think Photoshop is easy because they've using it for so long and they're used to it.

    Good news is that since recently they also offer the courses with GIMP.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

    All school programs are basically bought and paid for by big business. Adobe, MS, all control their bottom line this way. So of course they’ll only teach you MS Office and Photoshop.

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    [–] FlickeringScreens 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Tux Paint does go crazy though

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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    it's accurate though.

    The amount of PS users i see trying gimp for all of about 2 seconds and then shitting themselves when it isn't exactly the same as PS is funny to me.

    There are important technological differences i suppose, but i rarely see people complain about that.

    GIMP is a monster, as is PS. There is no getting around it.

    [–] Valmond 7 points 7 months ago (16 children)

    Show me how to change 1 pixel in an image. I'd actually be truthfully thankful and will consider to try to use gimp again (last time I tried the mouse didn't position/choose the zoomed in pixels correctly).

    Show me how to open an image, make a small modification, then:

    (step 2) save it and close GIMP under 10 clicks.

    They deliberately changed so you can't save your modified image? I mean WTF? You have to export it with all the popups as you overwrite, hold your breath, the image that you opened and want to save!!1!.

    Then trying to nag you into saving it to some unknown unused bizarre gimp extension.

    It's like they don't want people to switch. And it's such a shame as the soft is getting better and better all the time.

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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

    Photopea dot Com is pretty solid and it's a website not a download. Has good complexities for the non profesional that wants to do more but doesn't need or want photoshop.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

    The amount of times I see, "Have you tried just googling it?" As a response to a tech issue is too damn high.

    The best part is seeing those answers in threads that I got to by googling my question.

    "Thank you for your helpful advise of 'just Google it' I've now found dozens of threads with that exact same answer to the question I have."

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