(10-09-2024, 10:49 PM)Photoshopsince2000 Wrote: I would like to make a few suggestions to the developers, but I'm not sure the best place or line of contact to do so. Any idea how I could reach out to them?
I've been using Photoshop since 2000 or v5.0/6.0. There are two things that made Photoshop the standard. How it's selections work, and how it's layers work.
This mentality when someone says, "Gimp is not like Photoshop", people often respond back and say, "GIMP is not trying to be like Photoshop" I say that's a poor excuse. Photoshop is an industry standard because it is the best - Period - End of story.
I love what GIMP is doing, and I really would love to get away from Adobe. I think software as a service is only going to harm Adobe in the long run as students find alternative to subscriptions, they are shrinking their base of users in the long run, and it's expensive for something you don't own.
But GIMP still feels inefficient to me and I say this because I care and I want GIMP to succeed.
No you don't care, what you care is that you want to stop to pay adobe every month and have a free copycat of Photoshop with GIMP looking and acting EXACTLY like Photoshop.
You do not want to learn GIMP, you want GIMP to be Photoshop for your own interest, just re-read the pamphlet you wrote, it's exactly that.
(10-09-2024, 10:49 PM)Photoshopsince2000 Wrote:
- The way the layers flatten when you move things. I know this can be toggled, but it still feels buggy. Maybe I don't know something, but I can't get use to this program, feels strange why someone would want automated flattening that you have to go back on undo. Photoshop is simple, you just create a layer and its like an invisible floating independent object that lets you do anything to the object it contains. Maybe this will change in 3.0 as more tools become non destructive. GIMP needs it's layers to function independently of the other objects by default. You can always go back and merge all layers, or specific layers with with layers you specifically select or at least you can in Photoshop.
I confirm you don't know something about GIMP, when you move layers in GIMP, they do not "auto-flatten", I never heard that from someone, and you can do anything you want with just that layer...
(10-09-2024, 10:49 PM)Photoshopsince2000 Wrote:
- The Selections in Photoshop are amazing. GIMP needs to copy this. They let you create any shape you want and then you can apply these selections adds or cuts not only to layers, but you can use them to cut a layer in half. Adobe calls this Layer Via Cut when you right click in a selection. GIMP needs Layer Via Cut.
Learn GIMP! You can add and cut selection as well
For instance, your Layer via cut: Ctrl+X ➤ Ctrl+V ➤ Ctrl+Shift+N, in other words ➤ cut then paste and click on that first green button in the layers' dialog to put that floating selection on a new layer, or do it via the Edit and Layer top menu, but did you look at the top menu?
(10-09-2024, 10:49 PM)Photoshopsince2000 Wrote:
- Photoshop lets you transform the actual selection before you apply it. you can rotate the selection, change its shape...ect GIMP needs a transform selection.
GIMP has it as well, you can rotate, increase decrease size, transform a selection and so on.... did I said > learn GIMP?
(10-09-2024, 10:49 PM)Photoshopsince2000 Wrote:
- Last where is the Polygonal Lasso tool? Maybe I missed it, but it's one of the most common tools in editing software. Is there a Polygonal Lasso tool in GIMP?
It's called the "Free Select tool"... again learn GIMP... to know how to do straight line with it (hint: try with Ctrl if you need to control angle by 15 degrees)
(10-09-2024, 10:49 PM)Photoshopsince2000 Wrote: Rather than trying to be different, I would try to copy Photoshop.
I don't want my GIMP to look like Photoshop, I'm so used to it, and is way more customizable than Photoshop.
when I dropped Photoshop almost a decade ago after using it for more than 15 years, it took me just few days to find GIMP user friendly,
what I often saw is people with poor knowledge of Photoshop that complains, they have a very basic understanding of Photoshop, use always the same few tools for eons and when they change software they get lost... just my experience about what I see on internet.
Patrice