I think the real reason so many people hate GIMPs flow is that it doesn’t match the free paint tool that comes with every Microsoft OS since before I was born.
This would help explain why people who have never used PS even 10 years ago would regularly bounce off GIMP for making no intuitive sense
Yeah. That’s different. The way that is do it, supposing it didn’t need to be perfect (I’d use a vector-based program like Inkscape for that), would be to create the selection, paint bucket, contact selection by desired number of pixels, clear. Not as good as converting to a path but more intuitive to me having learned PS circa early 2000s.
NateNate60@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s more complex. In Photoshop, it’s a single tool. In GIMP, you make a circular selection, convert it to a path, and then stroke the path.
Not only is this more convoluted, it’s bewilderingly unintuitive to beginners and is definitely one of GIMP’s shortcomings.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I think the real reason so many people hate GIMPs flow is that it doesn’t match the free paint tool that comes with every Microsoft OS since before I was born.
This would help explain why people who have never used PS even 10 years ago would regularly bounce off GIMP for making no intuitive sense
Liz@midwest.social 5 months ago
In every fucking program ever it’s a single tool.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
One can reduce to two steps:
I’ll not disagree that it is unintuitive, however. But, that was not the statement.
NateNate60@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That doesn’t do the same thing, I guess the goal is really how to draw the outline of a circle
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Yeah. That’s different. The way that is do it, supposing it didn’t need to be perfect (I’d use a vector-based program like Inkscape for that), would be to create the selection, paint bucket, contact selection by desired number of pixels, clear. Not as good as converting to a path but more intuitive to me having learned PS circa early 2000s.