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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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[–] [email protected] 165 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Anon doesn't know how to draw a circle in GIMP

Skill issue

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (4 children)

But seriously, how do you do it?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Circular selection, fill?

Or, for an annulus: circular selection, border, enter border width, fill.

Or, for any selection in general: edit, stroke selection.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Circular selection, fill?

Isn't that how you do that in Photoshop?

For a certified maniac there's also one bump of a brush with 100% hardness and using gradient tool, radial, with no actual gradations.

And if you are feeling like killing a school bus of puppies, you can put a coin or a mug to the screen with one hand while drawing around it with the other, using a live mouse, biting you, as you move it and hallucinate the formation of the ideal circular form.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No, most of the times for shapes in Photoshop you'd use the shape tool, which can generate them in raster, or better, as paths, allowing you to modify them later non-destructively.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I loved how non-destructive placement of existing graphics works but I can't remember when I used the shape tool in PS without going straight to AI for it's shape-building anchor-induced shenanigans. Can you tell what use besides non-pixelated masks you've used in your workflow? It's the only application I can think of, but that's maybe because my field of use is too narrow.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

No idea about Photoshop, never got to use it. The last piece of bitmap graphic editing software I used other than Gimp was Micrografx Picture Publisher 4/5, and that has been a while.

I'll admit I do see some quality of life features in Photoshop though, plus I'd like to play around with some of the "AI" feature for infilling etc.

That being said, from what I gather from OP, there seems to be a circular shape tool that saves 2-3 clicks when drawing a circle in PS? Looking at the pros/cons, not a convincing argument, but then again, I don't look at memes for any meaningful argument or a reasonable discussion.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

The same way you do it in Photoshop, really

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I like how stock photoshop refuses to run with wine not because Adobe cares about linux but because of the insane amount of DRM that harasses you on Windows.

Meaning pirated photoshop runs fine on wine lol

I think there's even a github script to do it all for you with gpu acceleration enabled so you don't have to even bother finding a pirate copy.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Okay but starting a lesson on Photoshop with the circle tool is like starting a lesson on Word with inserting a table. If working with abstract shapes is your modus operandi something like Illustrator or Inkscape makes a lot more sense as a tool.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Also beating up your students on the parking lot sound very fun to end the day but have no value in education

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Nanny state

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

The beatings will continue until Photoshop is mastered.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Dude.... idk if I know if I've ever seen a more accurate simile than that. Equally "buggy*", frustrating, and absurd if you have little to no experience with it

*idr word tables well but I suspect it was like pen tool where it wasn't so much buggy as it's hard to make it work right if you don't get it yet

[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 months ago (1 children)

i like the one about anon compiling a very minimal kernel on arch and whoops cant present to class because hdmi out doesnt work lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Some of my more memorable experiences in gentoo over the years have been from trying to trim everything I can out from my kernel. It tends to work, until it doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Anon went on to develop Krita.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Krita >>> gimp Fight me

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Lol in hungary we used gimp because the school couldnt afford photoshop(it was one of the best schools in the country).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If it gets the job done, then it's fine, right

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeah it works for me but for professional work it probably wouldnt.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Idk, I use it quite often, also for my job

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Pretty sure Krita is the go to for professional work on linux now.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Don't mess with the BSD gang, let this be a lesson to anon.

Stealing from 4chan, we really are reddit's child.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is literally the greentext community; where else is the content supposed to come from?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Just joking, because people used to complain about this for whatever reason on reddit, and 4chan.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Meanwhile several others tried to buy Photoshop on their proprietary systems but couldn't afford it. They opened Paint.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (4 children)

pirating it is pretty fast & easy

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I actually remember trying to draw a circle with gimp one time. It was actually completely fucked. I was looking for stroke selection or something like that. I never drew the goddamn Circle. Fuck you that shit sucks

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

From memory ..

Select tool and draw circle.

Select option menu then click 'to path'

Unselect all

Somewhere nearby there is a fill stroke to path or something.

Yeah...I'm considering going over to paint.net or something else.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

Anon appreciates the chaturbate ads embedded in his start menu

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

Is this the most reposted greentext?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

if it had a lifetime license I wouldnt actually mind paying!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Anon could’ve just opened a browser and went to photopea.com

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Is nobody going to ask how Anon getting beat up in the parking lot is relevant to the story? There’s no indication that Anon’s classmates followed them out to the parking lot. The incident feels more random.

Am I overthinking this instead of drifting off to sleep? Most likely.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago

Of course it happened exactly like that. Nobody would ever just make shit up on 4chan, right?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The joke is that Anon is a very irresistibly punchable sort of person and so of course they would be a victim of violence. A common theme in greentexts is projected anxiety about peer rejection for not conforming.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Seriously though, why is gimp missing features from kidpix

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Where’s this school that does Photoshop class and the school doesn’t provide the software and equipment?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Hey something's fishy here! I'm starting to think this guy wasn't beat up in the parking lot either

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