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Newbie seeking advice - stobarta@gmail.com - 04-02-2021
i'm new to image manipulation and I stumbled upon Gimp. Is there a beginners guide for mac users? The official manual has illustrations which are different from what i am seeing. I suspect that is because I am using a mac and the illustrations are on a PC and of course there are other differences, such as key shortcuts.
RE: Newbie seeking advice - AngelH - 08-18-2023
(04-02-2021, 09:16 PM)stobarta@gmail.com Wrote: i'm new to image manipulation and I stumbled upon Gimp. Is there a beginners guide for mac users? The official manual has illustrations which are different from what i am seeing. I suspect that is because I am using a mac and the illustrations are on a PC and of course there are other differences, such as key shortcuts.
Maybe you've already figured it out.
Here is a link with some video tutorials for Gimp on Mac OS's.
https://www.google.com/search?q=gimp+beginners+guide+for+mac+users&sca_esv=557985309
RE: Newbie seeking advice - PixLab - 08-18-2023
Old mac user here before I claim my freedom
(04-02-2021, 09:16 PM)stobarta@gmail.com Wrote: such as key shortcuts.
All shortcut are the same, naming on mac is just different
just 2 things to remember
1- Ctrl (Control) => Command
For example Ctrl+C on PC = Command+C on a Mac
2- Alt => Option
For example Ctrl+Alt+V on PC = Command+Option+V on a Mac
Shift => Shift (same)
Enter => Return
Delete => go to Edit > Clear
The Delete key on a mac is NOT a true delete key even if they wrote it => it's a backspace, thus for mac, instead go to the top Menu Edit > Clear if using the Backspace does not work.
Last but not least, Preferences and other things that you might see in the top menu Edit on tuto => are in the top menu GIMP on a mac (between the apple logo and "File")
Then you should be good to watch any tuto for any operating system as GIMP is the very same as everywhere
More shortcut > https://shortcutworld.com/GIMP/mac/GIMP_Shortcuts
(04-02-2021, 09:16 PM)stobarta@gmail.com Wrote: The official manual has illustrations which are different from what i am seeing
Maybe because you stumble upon an old version of the manual user.
For example look at those 2 urls:
1- https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/gimp-tool-dynamics.html
2- https://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-tool-dynamics.html
one is for GIMP 2.10, the second one is for GIMP 2.8
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Just check that the url is for 2.10 (anyway you will still find old screenshot in later updated manual
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