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A GIMP Guide, but from a Photoshop User
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this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2025
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Every time I've tried gimp I walked away frustrated. I left photoshop behind long ago, only ever used it for messing around. But everything just kind of made sense. I felt like none of the skills I learned transferred to gimp, and I was always fighting against the design language.
I've saved this video to give a watch later, thanks for posting.
I had that in the beginning too. Once you're used to the basics you'll find that most of what you've learnt does transfer though.
I think part of the problem, at least for me coming from 20 years on photoshop, was searching for "how do I do this advanced technique in GIMP" before learning the basic layout/structure/tools etc.
YMMV but I highly recommend watching an hour or two of an introductory GIMP course. It's what made it click for me.
I feel you.
I recommend checking photopea.com, it's a very light photoshop webversion that can do almost everything photoshop can do, a very cool tool.
This is proprietary (and running in a web browser does not make it less so)