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yeah it sure is adequate at cropping and resizing!
also can we trick them into naming it something else?
as someone who's used GIMP for over 10 years at zhis point and is actually pretty good at using it:
don't do what i did, i don't want to relearn my workflow so I'm trapped but it's not worzh it i promise
also please change zhe name
the UI for those specific processes is so unspeakably bad that i once got in a fight with the devs in a bug thread over it and left in disgust when they acted like it was somehow not objectively terrible
the Gnu's Imp devs are so up their own ass it's incredible they can still breath
the best part is it's true
we can also work in about how the project isn't really worked on anymore and point to it still using GTK2 as proof people should move to something more current
i still do not know how to crop or resize on gimp, i just do it through the kde image viewer, it's simple, it's straightforward
gimp still does not have nondestructive layers or multiple layer selection.
everything gimp does krita does better (and that one also has a long way to go) to the point i don't know why someone would seriously recommend gimp to anyone at this point
I've only ever used GIMP and it seems good enough for those things
I've gotten deep enough into it to know that serious editing starts getting really fucked really fast but the few times I've stuck my head into photoshop my reaction was "how the fuck does any of this work?"
None of that is to say anything good or bad about either program, just how my experience with them has gone.
increasingly these days i see ppl clown on it. which is probably deserved? but what do ppl use instead anyway. i made a workflow in it many years ago for image editing but i’m not married to it and it’s not really updating anymore (how long have they been working on version 3 now??) and it has a lot of annoying quirks so. the only other thing i’ve tried is paint.net and i hated it
I would also be down for a different linux/foss option. I'm sure anyone just taking a "let's do photoshop again" approach would probably end up better.
i use Krita, it has a nicer UI
Gnu IMP has more filters but they are mostly very retro at this point
when it is just basic repetitive tasks then i usually just write a script for imagemagick/graphicsmagick
I need to actually try/learn how to use Krita for basic crops and such. There's no way it's text handling is worse, I don't think that's possible. Having no text functionality is better.
Love imagemagick, I don't have the muscle memory for it down like I do ffmpeg yet.
text is fine in Krita, it uses a pop-up window instead of letting you type right into the image which is annoying, but its very flexible
it does support vectors as well, text layers can be converted to vectors directly for manipulation and all kinds of other things
every layer has a bunch of different border and fill and shown effects that you can use even on bitmap layers which saves a lot of time for these common tasks
the *magick tools also change their interface and break functionality from time to time, it always feels like an adventure, but for batch processing nothing beats it!
in most cases where it's not important enough to get photoshop running in wine? photopea. it's literally a photoshop clone in a browser
this actually struck a nerve before I realized it was bait. But also, coming from someone who has never used photoshop (or an adobe product in general), what is the issue with the UI other than relying on an older UI library?
A fork of Gnu IMP with UI/UX fixes so it's less alien to newbies and to folks that want an escape from other industry products. And also change the name maybe to Gnu Raster Image Processor so you can use pithy tag lines like "I got a GRIP on my graphics work process" or any number of puns.
GIMP is just the worst, it is the prime example of the absolutely bizzare refusal to have a usable UI in foss spaces
