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I went from Photoshop to Gimp (and other image tools) a long time ago, and it wasn't that bad of a switch for me. Things were in other spots, but it was basica

• blooalien 3y ago
  > "Things were in other spots, but it was basically all the same idea. I've used both of those and others since then, and they're all basically the same." I've read or watched PhotoShop tutorials and adapted them to Krita and GIMP before, so you're pretty on the nose with your assessment there. They're enough the same that I (who is not a professional graphic artist by any means) am able to learn from tutorials for other software which does a similar task and easily enough use that knowledge in whatever tool happens to be in front of me (once I find the related features in the menus or toolbars). Just gotta be adaptive to the differences, and aware of the similarities enough is all. It actually holds true for many other softwares as well, even all the way up (down?) to operating systems. There are more similarities than differences. Focus on what you instantly recognize as familiar, and start there, and then explore the other bits, and one tends to do just fine.