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Exactly. I found myself using GIMP for exactly those "quick" scenarios because PS, especially before CS6, was just bulky and overcomplicated. GIMP: Roughly sel

Exactly. I found myself using GIMP for exactly those "quick" scenarios because PS, especially before CS6, was just bulky and overcomplicated. GIMP: Roughly select something, zoom in to make it pixel-perfect, see the size of the selection in the bottom left, and just drag until it fits your need. PS? Roughly select something. Figure out the size of the selection. Zoom in. Dig into the menu.. Transform selection? Adjust. What's the size now? .. Nope, thanks. I am done 5 times over in GIMP by the time I did that. I get that GIMP is not perfect, but some people treat like the PHP of graphics software.

reitanqild 10y ago
Complaining about php is like complaining about an axe: Yes, it might hurt incompetent people but the people who master it have a truly nifty tool at their disposal.
- FatalBaboon 10y ago
  Complaining about PHP is sanity of someone who learned more than one language.
  - reitanqild 10y ago
    As someone who has coded in c, java, javascript (before it was cool), perl, python, visual basic I still see a clear niche for php even though I don't use it anymore.
    - rbanffy 10y ago
      Indeed. It's just that it's not a good language (like Visual Basic).
throwanem 10y ago
> PS? Roughly select something. Figure out the size of the selection. Zoom in. Dig into the menu.. Transform selection? Adjust. What's the size now? .. Nope, thanks. I am done 5 times over in GIMP by the time I did that. Photoshop has a separate crop tool. It gives you a region with handles so you can make fine adjustments before pulling the trigger. You can crop to selection in Photoshop, but it's not the primary way of doing so. "Why not just use selections the way GIMP does?" you might ask. Well, why not just split the functionality the way Photoshop does? Both approaches are valid. Complaining about one or the other because it's not the way you are accustomed to do things is at best unproductive. (Edited to add: And I gather GIMP has a crop tool, too, and has done since at least 2.4, which was released in 2007. So maybe it's just a matter of learning to use the tool at hand? I mean, don't get me wrong - there's a whole lot I don't like about GIMP! I won't use it unless I have literally no other alternative, including Paint.net and command-line transforms via ImageMagick. But I do try to avoid complaining about problems it doesn't actually have.)

reitanqild 10y ago

Complaining about php is like complaining about an axe: Yes, it might hurt incompetent people but the people who master it have a truly nifty tool at their disposal.

FatalBaboon 10y ago
Complaining about PHP is sanity of someone who learned more than one language.
- reitanqild 10y ago
  As someone who has coded in c, java, javascript (before it was cool), perl, python, visual basic I still see a clear niche for php even though I don't use it anymore.
  - rbanffy 10y ago
    Indeed. It's just that it's not a good language (like Visual Basic).

throwanem 10y ago

> PS? Roughly select something. Figure out the size of the selection. Zoom in. Dig into the menu.. Transform selection? Adjust. What's the size now? .. Nope, thanks. I am done 5 times over in GIMP by the time I did that. Photoshop has a separate crop tool. It gives you a region with handles so you can make fine adjustments before pulling the trigger. You can crop to selection in Photoshop, but it's not the primary way of doing so. "Why not just use selections the way GIMP does?" you might ask. Well, why not just split the functionality the way Photoshop does? Both approaches are valid. Complaining about one or the other because it's not the way you are accustomed to do things is at best unproductive. (Edited to add: And I gather GIMP has a crop tool, too, and has done since at least 2.4, which was released in 2007. So maybe it's just a matter of learning to use the tool at hand? I mean, don't get me wrong - there's a whole lot I don't like about GIMP! I won't use it unless I have literally no other alternative, including Paint.net and command-line transforms via ImageMagick. But I do try to avoid complaining about problems it doesn't actually have.)