Why BMP. GIMP can deal with SVGs, no?

The magic of Linux workflow.

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

It’s a joke

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

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.

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.

Gave me a stroke reading this, thanks Stallman.

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

What a fantastic insight.

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.

Because it's a UX mess.

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.

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

SaaS

The end times basically

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

It's free if you want it to be