This should be helpful for people that learned Photoshop in the past (for work or in school). From what I understand, a lot of the friction with GIMP is the workflow differences, and potentially unintuitive UI/UX choices.
tldr: recovering Adobe Photoshop user shows you features in the very free and very open source gnu image manipulation program :D
my relevant GIMP config files: https://github.com/BreadOnPenguins/dots/tree/master/.config/GIMP/3.0
GIMP documentation: https://www.gimp.org/docs/
PhotoGIMP is a godsend.
Sounds like a good resource, but I prefer documentation over videos for how-to guides. I’m glad you posted this, though, thanks.
She also recommends the documentation several times in the video, this is just an explanation of the features in comparison to ps
That’s really good. I just don’t watch videos, so…
I do understand that many, many people prefer how-to videos, so, like I said, I am very glad that this video exists.
As a life-long pirate, having full MS Office, Macromedia and Adobe packages weren’t ever a problem, but one day I decided to start using FOSS stuff… and man, getting into GIMP was damn painful, oh, the horror!
I’m very glad for photopea.com when I need to do some quick stuff, but for GIMP, this guy here made a very cool setup to help us Photoshop users https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMPThe same with Darktable and Lightroom.
Darktable is more powerful (a few thinhs missing though, like panos) but it’s UI is way different and super complex.
If you haven’t already, give RawTherapee a try. I can’t compare it to Lightroom, but I find it a lot easier to use than Darktable.
Every time I’ve tried gimp I walked away frustrated. I left photoshop behind long ago, only ever used it for messing around. But everything just kind of made sense. I felt like none of the skills I learned transferred to gimp, and I was always fighting against the design language.
I’ve saved this video to give a watch later, thanks for posting.
I feel you.
I recommend checking photopea.com, it’s a very light photoshop webversion that can do almost everything photoshop can do, a very cool tool.This is proprietary (and running in a web browser does not make it less so)
