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Comment on I was explaining to my daughter about the differences between Gimp and Photoshop and saw that Adobe had a page that claimed to compare the two. It never compares the two. It barely mentions Gimp.

NateNate60@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

In ~~Photoshop~~ paint, it’s a single tool.

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

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- Liz@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  In every fucking program ever it’s a single tool.
  
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nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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.
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- NateNate60@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  That doesn’t do the same thing, I guess the goal is really how to draw the outline of a circle
  
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  - nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.
    
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