01-25-2024, 07:12 AM
(01-15-2024, 07:53 AM)PixLab Wrote: The first thing I would recommend is to un-group the tools, to have a bigger picture of what GIMP has, and not searching for a basic tool.
Go to Edit > Preferences > a window opens:
Then like Ofnuts, un-learn Photoshop and learn the GIMP interface, all the help will come with GIMP short-cuts and GIMP interface screenshots which you might not find after transforming your GIMP in Photoshop alike
Quote:I'd love to hear from other GIMP users who have successfully switched from Photoshop to GIMP.
I did the full switch when I became a Linux user, no choice > No Photoshop on Linux.
It was quite "easy" to switch, when you understand that all are in the top menu, like Colors / Filters / Edit / and Select, things are coming fast, very fast, then you start to try the right click on the layers' stack, or the Path's dialog etc.. and discover other things and thing are going even faster
GIMP beginners have tendencies to over look some important function like those: Mouse over a second or 2 on one button and what it does will appear and many have shortcuts displayed as well
Then you start to drag things and discover that almost every things can be dragged and dropped, like a channel on the canvas or a color from theto the canvas, a pattern directly to the canvas, and so on ...
Thank you so much for your detailed explanation! Un-grouping the tools definitely makes sense; I can see how that would give me a better overview of GIMP's capabilities. I was also initially tempted to compare it to Photoshop, but learning the unique interface definitely seems like the best approach. Your point about the right-click functions on layers and paths is fantastic - I completely missed that! I'll definitely be hovering over buttons and dragging things around to see what hidden tools I can find. Thanks again for the great tips, I'm excited to explore GIMP more!