GIMP is awful though. I havent seen the new ui yet, but the old one was unusably bad
Yes but the Adobecucks have proven time and again they’d rather take ungreased Adobe pole than learn an alternative.
chrisashtear@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
topperharlie@lemmy.world 1 day ago
try krita, specially for digital painting with tablet
PlzGibHugs@piefed.ca 1 day ago
I’m not trying to make a painting with a drawing tablet, though. I just want to edit the alpha values of an image.
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 14 hours ago
In gimp just right click the layer, choose add layer mask, then pick from layer’s alpha channel. You now have a mask layer you can paint on.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Krita is designed for painting, but you don’t have to use it for that…
Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Have you considered that photoshop is also awful, and pretty much visually 1:1 to gimp at a glance
chrisashtear@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Um. Maybe if youre drunk and/or high.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Make a circle.
Good fucking luck.
diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 17 hours ago
Circular select, fill?
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Yeah but Adobe just works. Although recent versions suck hard. But there’s nothing wrong with a pirated older version. As long as Adobe doesn’t get any money it’s fine for me.
AI is just pure evil, which is harmful to the environment, water and power supply, and helps tech giants become even more powerful.
jj4211@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Read a review by someone, this vibed up solution isn’t going to win anyone over either because it evidently sucks. It may imitate the UI more closely for what works, but not much works adequately.
BlindPenguin@piefed.social 1 day ago
Tbf it’s declared “early alpha”, so not surprising.
jj4211@lemmy.world 1 day ago
At least my experience is that a vibe coded app gets to ‘early alpha’ then stays there. If AI is augmenting a developer who is otherwise competent and they don’t let it get ahead of their own understanding, it can work out though not as ‘miraculously fast’ as this. If AI can oneshot an application then it can also work out. If a project vibes itself in a week or two to ‘looks like what it should be but isn’t good enough’, then thus far every one I see is doomed to sit there, because the AI can’t finish it and if you let the GenAI produce that much code, it’s generally not serviceable even for very capable developers.
I spent a lot of time last week basically peeling back an overly vibed attempt at an application by a colleague. It was too flaky and incomplete and deleting large sections of it was frankly more practical than trying to rework it. It had gotten to the point where every attempt to try to have GenAI fix it one way would just break something else. That project was, essentially a fairly small command line utility, I fear to think what something the level of a Photoshop knockoff would be like.
BlindPenguin@piefed.social 16 hours ago
I found it doing quite decently when using it with strongly opinionated web frameworks and some rules. After all, most web projects are mostly CRUD anyway. For desktop apps it seems mixed, probably because there aren’t many frameworks that give structure. It did however throw together a working app for me so i can map my mouse buttons, but it’s in golang. I’m more of a python / php guy, so i can’t really tell if it’s coded correctly. It didn’t delete my computer yet, though.
With this photoshop clone however, i’m surprised it starts at all. Last time i’ve tested something more complex for desktop, it failed spectacularly. So i’m quite curious how far they can push this thing. What i don’t like, is that GenAI stuff they have to generate images. Coding is one thing, but using it for “automated art” is not so great…
Grimy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ya it’s a buggy mess. It’s foreshadowing Adobe’s doom and that in itself deserves a cheer.