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> A sane, default, "draw box on image" app is a good thing. Speaking of that, is that still insanely hard to accomplish in Gimp? I haven’t used it in years but
by cblum 7y ago
> A sane, default, "draw box on image" app is a good thing.
Speaking of that, is that still insanely hard to accomplish in Gimp? I haven’t used it in years but I remember being extremely frustrated with it.
- jetrink 7y agoCreate a selection using the rectangular selection tool, then navigate to [Edit->Stroke Selection].
- recrof 7y agothat's far from intuitive
- jzymbaluk 7y agoOnce you've invested the time into getting familiar with Gimp it's not terribly hard, but it's more effort to learn than paint which is dead simple out of the box. Plus Gimp still takes 20+ seconds to start before it's fully useable (even on SSD!), vs paint being ready to go on less than a second
- cr0sh 7y agoGimp was never meant to do those kinds of operations, and it still can't - at least not "easily"; it's still as cumbersome as before. You can still do "pixel level" editing - you just can't do primitives. Honestly, though, it's not the right tool for that. If I need to do vector art, then I'll use a vector art program like inkscape. If I need to do CAD, then there's a number of options in that space as well. If I need to do pixel level editing, or something similar, my go-to editor on Linux is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GrafX2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GrafX2 ...mainly because I'm familiar with it since it is virtually a clone of various editors I used on my Amiga back in the day.
- cblum 7y agoThat makes sense. I remember being frustrated though because Gimp was usually the only imaging app that came installed in a desktop Linux system. And I never found a good Paint-like app that wasn’t super buggy.