Automated background removal was also added recently.

  • HidingCat
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    261 year ago

    As it should, I’ve tried twice to use GIMP, always gone back to Photoshop.

    • @[email protected]
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      331 year ago

      For how relatively well known it is (it’s probably like the next most well known piece of FOSS after Linux and Blender) I can’t believe how bad a piece of software GIMP is.

      • @[email protected]
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        331 year ago

        I hope you mean the UX. I think attacking it’s functionality would be unfair. It does everything good and right … technically.

        If the UX is objectively bad or “just” subjectively might be hard to find out. I would assume if there are objective UX mistakes, some contributor might have been able to deal with that by now. But of course it doesn’t change anything if a majority doesn’t like it for subjectice reasons. It’s part of UX design to deal with subjective aspects.

          • fmstrat
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            131 year ago

            Or you know, being able to rearrange layers.

            • @[email protected]
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              31 year ago

              Or color spasecs other than sRGB (8 bits/channel). I’ve a camera that takes 10 bits/channel photos, a monitor that displays 10 bits/channel, etc. But GIMP will just distort the colors because they hard-coded the color space! Can’t edit for print either, no CMYK. GIMP is an image editor for the noughties, not the 2020s.

              Then again, we’re talking about MS Paint here. If Paint fills your needs, GIMP will be fine.

              • fmstrat
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                41 year ago

                Not just 10bit. The Linux version still makes 8bit images more purple after saving.

              • @[email protected]
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                31 year ago

                If Paint fills your needs, GIMP will be fine.

                Disagree. Paint’s function is to be the Notepad of images, something not very powerful but quick and dead simple.

                GIMP is needlessly hard to use.

              • ferret
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                21 year ago

                Good news for you, if they ever get around to releasing gimp 3

          • @conno02
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            11 year ago

            as a doofus gimp user, what’s an adjustment layer?

            • @[email protected]
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              31 year ago

              Not a professional either, but I was also curious and learned:

              It’s a layer of which the properties/filters apply to all layers below. So you can basically try around and manipulate the visible image without having to combine the layers first.

        • @[email protected]
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          I’ve been waiting for years for “non-destructive edition” (AKA smart objects). It’s a fundamental feature that I use (almost?) always as a first step. IMHO a lof of professional work is not practical without it.

          They had it on the roadmap (see 2020 archive) for years marked as “No[t started]”. The current roadmap looks more promising with “link layers” marked as WIP and saying it could be available on GIMP 3.0.2.

        • @conno02
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          11 year ago

          ive been stuck with gimp and now ive been stockholm syndromed into liking it

      • @[email protected]
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        101 year ago

        I use Gimp a lot.

        It does its job very well, but that job is not to be an alternative to photoshop.

      • @gmtom
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        81 year ago

        I used GIMP before Photoshop and I still massively prefer GIMP.

        I really think its a case of what you got used to first.

      • @Potatos_are_not_friends
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        51 year ago

        Then all the defenders go “But it’s free and open-source!” and you can tell they are just paying lipservice.

    • Xanthrax
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