• AugustWest@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      7 months ago

      Oh so this is not a photoediting class I thought. So I launched Krita. And everyone laughed when they realized Photoshop was the wrong tool for the job.

      We had icecream.

    • net00@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      I’ve seen this exact image in a thread before and the circlejerk assured everyone this didn’t happen

  • Ascend910@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    7 months ago

    Typical “we know this feature is asked many times, but it not on our priority/ it is not planned”

    I’m not criticizing open source itself, but I think this highlights a common issue in open source software, one that distinguishes widely adopted projects like Blender from others. Successful open source software tends to reach users beyond just those within the open source movement.

    I know some might disagree, saying that these developers work for free, but that’s not the point here. Software is created for users, and if a developer declines to implement a feature requested by the user base, many will simply return to proprietary alternatives—like Adobe Photoshop or Photo Pea, in this case. This leaves these open source projects feeling like “second-class citizens” because they lack the specific features users need.

    • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip
      3·
      7 months ago

      Agree. Similar example is Matrix Element multi-account request. It’s the most requested but we still don’t know it’s roadmap.

      • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        7 months ago

        That one is infuriating. Having a good client is so key to adoption… And Element is still really, really bad. Yes, it has almost all the features, but refusing multi-account is so so so annoying, and being Electron garbage is horrible. They have so much funding it’s ridiculous.

        XMPP is another case where adoption has mostly failed exactly because there are no “flagship” clients that do it all.

        That’s why DeltaChat looks so good. The official clients work great everywhere, and they can do it all!

    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 months ago

      Tbf this is not exclusive to open source software. iOS famously didn’t have “copy and paste” until version 3, for instance. The zealots were the ones that insisted that it was unnecessary until Apple rolled it out.

      Plex constantly has requests for obvious features that are stated to not be on their roadmap.

      Yes it is frustrating, but it isn’t exclusive to open source development.

      • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        7 months ago

        Lmfao unlocked a memory with this one, remember when Apple tried to force people to pay for that update? You could easily find the package and manually install it instead, but still lmfao.

    • renzev@lemmy.world
      01·
      7 months ago

      The meme is ironic lol. Why would anybody want a shape tool in gimp? Nobody is seriously asking for it. This is a joke that originated with that old greentext about anon getting beat up in the school parking lot for not being able to draw a circle in gimp

      • BigPotato@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 months ago

        Every now and then, I just want a circle to start off with. A circle will capture 97% of the area I need before I grind down with the lasso. Can I draw a circle freehand? No, that shit is more like an oval or an abomination against God.

        Is it enough to get me to start paying for Photoshop? No. I’ve even got it installed on my work computers that have Photoshop in case of licensing issues (it’s happened more than once). But I am a user and I have requested it unironically in the past.

        So, beat me up after class but the sample size is at least one.

        • renzev@lemmy.world
          2·
          7 months ago

          If you unironically need it, than what’s stopping you from just using it…? It’s right there, just search for “shape” in the command pallete

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    7 months ago

    Gimp 3.0.0 is fucking awesome, haters gonna hate.

    There is already a killer plugin for Gimp 3.0.0 called “Batcher” that lets you batch edit and convert images (including pdfs) either with a GUI interface or from the command line. There are already plenty of tools that can do this from the command line, or that are commercial paid software… but this is a pretty damn powerful utility to have attached to a fully featured free and open source image editor that you could teach someone who is uncomfortable with scripting how to make a bunch of edits across a large amount of image files with.

    https://github.com/kamilburda/batcher

  • xye@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    GIMP needs a glow up. It looks like what it is, but for a program looking for artists and designers to switch - you’re not going to get it by looking like the Temu photoshop.

  • Julian@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    Man there’s a lot of really stupid shit in here.

    Yes having a simple to use shape tool is nice. And it’s on the roadmap so no, it doesn’t go against some weird vaguely defined “core value” of gimp.

    • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip
      1·
      7 months ago

      Wrong.

      “GIMP is a cross-platform image editor … Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done.” - gimp.org

      Shape tools is a universal basic tool for any software that handle some sort of image creation or addition.

      Photo editing, general image editing, painting software, page layout design, vector design, PDF editor, all of them have one.

      Photoshop, Microsoft Paint, Clip Studio Paint, Krita, Photopea, Pixelmator, Affinity Photo, … all of them have shape tools.

      Heck, even Microsoft Excel and Word even have one.

      EDIT: Shape tool is planned, not yet WIP. Source: GIMP Roadmaps

    • Kushan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      7 months ago

      Why does a shape tool have to mean vectors are involved?

      Why can’t I just draw some bitmaps in different shapes?

  • macniel@feddit.org
    1·
    7 months ago

    It’s so tiring…

    Use the circle selection tool, mark an area, fill it with a solid colour/gradient/texture or morph it further or stroke the path to create a hollow circle

    So many options that amount to more than just a shape tool.

    • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Unintuitive.

      I heard of photoshop when I was 13 and I installed a pirated version, just started clicking around and I always found what I wanted in a minute.

      10 Years later, I switch 100% to Linux, I have to do some light design work, I open gimp - I CLICK AROUND FOR HALF AN HOUR FOR SOMETHING SIMPLE - can’t find it to save my life. Give up and google it, it gives me a reply like yours “just go to a completely unrelated menu to conjure a hack out of your ass that barely resembles what you originally intended to do”.

      Fuck that UX man. I am so glad pirated photoshop works well in wine nowadays and I have a VM with a legit Adobe suite if I ever need to actually whip up my license for some reason (fuck adobe as well btw.)

      I pray that one day there is a real competitor that works natively on Linux. I pay, take my hard earned money every month, whatever it takes, just make it intuitive and reach near feature parity with PS.

      If anybody is still reading, sorry for venting, the GIMPs always trigger me, have a nice day.

      • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
        01·
        7 months ago

        Spoiler: most people don’t care about “year of the linux desktop”. Linux works for me and those losers on windows be damned. Why should we cater to them? Especially since they won’t put any effort into learning linux.

    • Stovetop@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 months ago

      Wouldn’t that simply create a bitmap circle, though? The advantage of shapes in Photoshop is that they are vectors.

      • B-TR3E@feddit.org
        1·
        7 months ago

        Select circle -> save selection as path. There’s your vector. I’d, however, use some vector app for vector graphics, independent of the OS I’m using.

    • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
      0·
      7 months ago

      So many options that amount to more than just a shape tool.

      If I wanted to learn some arcane bullshit to draw a circle Id just learn C++.

    • jacecomix@sh.itjust.works
      0·
      7 months ago

      Admittedly, I just make the occasional meme for friends, but Photopea has been a 1:1 replacement for Photoshop for me.

    • KammicRelief@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      7 months ago

      I keep hearing about this thing. Does it really do all the photoshop things? adjustment layers, masks, dodge+burn, all that stuff? and I guess, does it do it well, with big files?

      • cley_faye@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 months ago

        He does a lot of things, in particular layer positioning/whatever this is called. I can’t really compare with PS though, since I don’t have it, but to open and do basic stuff on complex psd files that other software do not handle well, it’s ok.

        No idea how large you can get with it though.

  • TwoCupsofSugar@lemmy.world
    0·
    7 months ago

    i just want pressure sensitivity that actually works, GIMP used to be my go to for art stuff in the past, its a shame to see that it hasn’t really improved much over the past decade. I’ve switched completely to Krita, better overall software