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I could never grasp Gimp either but found photoshop made sense to me. I just wish it wasn't so expensive.

• neltnerb 6y ago
  Gimp is hard to reason about until you start using masks and realize that hitting either ctl or shift turns your regular paintbrush into a line. Then it stopped being quite as obnoxious. The filters are phenomenal though, I've been using Gimp for fifteen years and find it's good enough even though I still find the UI difficult. For me the weirdest part is that clicking on the X on the toolbar closes only the toolbar instead of it realizing that probably if I click an X anywhere I mean to close at least the currently open project. I get the logic with multiple windows open, it's just the one weird thing that I will never get used to. I'm sure we all have those stories.
  • shawnz 6y ago
    For some time now Gimp has featured a single-window mode which is enabled by default.
    • neltnerb 6y ago
      Ah, I guess my configuration file is too old :-D Thanks, I'll look into that. Edit: Didn't even need to look that far, was in an obvious menu (good UI!) and was just unchecked probably since upgrading didn't switch the option by default. Can't really argue with that but boy is the single window mode less painful to look at! Thanks again!
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