I love GIMP I just wish I was better at using it
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GIMP 3 is the bees knees 💪
There are some great plugins coming out for it now as well. I highly recommend checking out Batcher, which you can use not only to batch convert files but also to apply sets of adjustments including from G'MIC. Really powerful and useful tool with granular control.
There's also a really good frequency separation plugin and of course Resynthesizer.
Great times to be a GIMP user.
Thanks, but I don't think that patch level updates are news worthy
Posts in linux@lemmy.ml are on average about 4 or 5 hours apart. I think we can squeeze these kinds of posts in amidst the hustle and bustle in here.
Lemmy.world users seem to always be weirdly hostile about the dumbest shit I swear.
I wouldn't say it's instance-wide, but yes, Lemmy communities are becoming more and more hostile in general.
I think that as a photo editor, GIMP is the best option for open source. But as a print designer the lack of being able to work in CMYK and 1 bit images is a big problem.
Fortunately Krita does the CMYK thing extremely well, but it also lacks the ability to handle 1 bit images.
Wondering if anyone out there has discovered a lesser known open source app that works with 1 bit images well? Maybe something made for old school pixel art?
It seems strange to me, since even a more modern format like png supports 1 bit.
Maybe for 1 bit images on GIMP you could try setting the image mode to indexed and then generate a palette with just two colors. GIMP can also apply dithering if you want
Thank you!! That is exactly what I was looking for.
That is a big help. I was stuck on the idea that that option wasn't available when making a new doc and didn't think to look under the change mode menu.
But is there circle tool?
Why would you need a circle tool? Is your monitor round?
To be fair... that is more of a MS Paint kind of tool. I've been using Photoshop professionally for over 3 decades and I don't think I have ever used it. It took me a bit just to find it just now. Don't think I've ever used the rectangle tool either. A vector editing program like inkscape/illustrator or scribus/indesign are better tools for that kind of thing.
With that said. GIMP does have an ellipse selection tool, and that is something that I use often enough. And if you really wanted to draw a circle in a pixel pusher program you could just use that tool, invert it and delete on a separate layer.
Not yet, but it is on the roadmap!
Oh my, the future is soon!
After using so many different tools, on all platforms, with great or shitty UI, I have seen it all — I still hate GIMP.
Reserve your hate for Photoshop, the monthly subscription that is so overpriced they force $300-400 cancellation fees to keep them addicted. They are the only product in this space that deserves hate.
Disagree. The product is awesome. The commercialization not. I beg to differ.
The UI of GIMP sucked and still sucks. Nothing is going to change that.
Constructive criticism is good. I hope you reported bugs. Just saying you hate it, or it sucks, says more about you than the software.
Ok buddy
I don't think anyone should hate gimp, even if they dislike using it. When a shitty subscription based service is the only game in town, you've gotta root for the free and open source underdog.
The UI got an overhaul with 3.0 it's prettier now, it's a bit of a learning curve but its worth it, even if just for the smug satisfaction
You can always reprogram keyboard shortcuts