One can reduce to two steps:
- Draw elipse selection
- Fill with paint bucket
I’ll not disagree that it is unintuitive, however. But, that was not the statement.
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.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
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.
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.