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> From what I can recall, the GIMP UI has hardly changed since then too. There have actually been changes, and even if they aren't major, someone like me who h
by daptaq 5y ago
> From what I can recall, the GIMP UI has hardly changed since then too.
There have actually been changes, and even if they aren't major, someone like me who has never used anything but GIMP was annoyed/slightly confused by them. I don't know what the issue with GIMP is, besides tools that Photoshop appears to have or has better implementations for. My impressions is that it is mostly Photoshop users, that are expecting something else, or am I mistaken?
- michaelt 5y ago> My impressions is that it is mostly Photoshop users, that are expecting something else, or am I mistaken? I use GIMP for my (modest) editing needs, and I like it. But some of the behaviour is.... weird. For example, if you've got a region selected and you use the flood fill tool, it will only fill pixels within that region. OK, that's logical enough, a tool only applies to selected pixels, right? But if you've got a region selected and you use the move tool, it'll move the entire layer. If you want to move only the pixels in the selected region, you gotta convert it to a floating selection. And after you've moved your floating selection, you want to select a different region to move, so you drag out a new selection. Not so fast, your floating region has now vanished. You gotta defloat the selection by selecting nothing. But you can't do that by choosing 'None' in the 'Select' menu, that's greyed out for some reason. I'm sure these behaviours all make sense to a developer or expert user - but nobody's going to be telling their friends that GIMP is easy to pick up :)
- numpad0 5y agoI think I’ve seen GIMP’s “move tool moves the frame” behavior on somewhere else, perhaps in ancient versions of Photoshop. Back in the time GIMP UI was close enough to those, like in the legendary CS2 or v5.5 days.