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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"UMMM what the fuck is that, anon?"

"it's a great open-source software called mind your own fucking business"

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Open inkscape Draw circle Export bmp Open as layers 😹

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why BMP. GIMP can deal with SVGs, no?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

It can open SVGs as raster images, but I never managed it to look great. It's better to export to a BMP from an SVG editor.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

“I don’t have photoshop”

Problem solved

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

a lot of school provide ps 'for free' and expect everyone to use it

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I see you went to reach schools... Lucky you, mine didn't even provided toilet paper

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In that case, anon should have just figured out a way to run it before the class started

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A student being proactive?

Where do you think we are?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It’s a joke

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

you can't draw a circle in gimp?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's no "Shape" tool. You could just select a circular area in an empty layer and fill it though.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

No. The meme was because there was a bug that made drawing some circles go all wonky.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can, it is very unintuitive though. You draw the shape using the eilpse tool and set a border for the selection.

It's not hard, but there is really no way to figure this out without ever looking for a tutorial.

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

It's absolutely stupid design and more difficult than it needs to be.

I'll say it - Photoshop is infinitely more intuitive than gimp for the average person. Sure, if you are fucking determined, I'm sure you can figure it out eventually. You can even make it work. But if you say it is easier than Photoshop, you are wrong.

I love FOSS stuff but way too many people are delusional about the pros and cons of it. There are absolutely cons.

I stand with op.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

GIMP 2 is utter dogshit in terms of user experience.

GIMP 3, the version that is supposed to make everything easier, hasn't been released yet. ^(it's been years and I have given up hoping)

The situation sucks, but there aren't that many developers working on GIMP in the first place. Certainly not as many as Photoshop.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Lmao this is the better of the two pastas

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ellipse select tool (E) with shift (and optionally ctrl) pressed after starting the drag -> Edit menu -> Stroke Selection

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gave me a stroke reading this, thanks Stallman.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For some reason I do find GIMP easier to use them photoshop tho

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (10 children)

"Software I'm used to is easier for me than software I have no experience with."

What a fantastic insight.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You would imagine this to be obvious, but people who are used to Photoshop or Reddit complain all the time that Gimp or Lemmy are not as intuitive, as the other comments fully demonstrate.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I am the same. I tried Photoshop and bazillion of tools didn't help when making a simple picture, while GIMP could do that with relatively easier steps.

Edit: grammar, apologies.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Seriously though, why there is no shape tool in Gimp?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I stopped using GIMP and started using https://www.photopea.com/. You get most Photoshop features for free (ad-supported) in a familiar interface and without having to install a large slow application.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Photopea is amazing. Its 90% a clone of PS and is sooo much better than gimp.

I used it today to remove a white background on some of our icons to get a transparent png.

It was as easy as going i to the layer options, blend options, and drag the slider. It even has the option that you can hold alt and split the slider in 2 to get transparency blend as a gradient.

This would be a nightmare in gimp, and photopea does it non destructively. And since its a web app you dont even have to install anything. Amazing.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How much does Photoshop cost now?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

$20 a month, no way to buy lifetime subscription, $50 a month to get all adobe products

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

SaaS

The end times basically

You can't own a copy and you rent your usage by the month.

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

The Enshitification continues

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

You’ll Own Nothing and Be Happy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's free if you want it to be

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