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A GIMP Guide, but from a Photoshop User (www.youtube.com)
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This should be helpful for people that learned Photoshop in the past (for work or in school). From what I understand, a lot of the friction with GIMP is the workflow differences, and potentially unintuitive UI/UX choices.

tldr: recovering Adobe Photoshop user shows you features in the very free and very open source gnu image manipulation program :D

my relevant GIMP config files: https://github.com/BreadOnPenguins/dots/tree/master/.config/GIMP/3.0

GIMP documentation: https://www.gimp.org/docs/

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[-] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 hours ago

PhotoGIMP is a godsend.

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 5 points 14 hours ago

Sounds like a good resource, but I prefer documentation over videos for how-to guides. I'm glad you posted this, though, thanks.

[-] j5906@feddit.org 2 points 11 hours ago

She also recommends the documentation several times in the video, this is just an explanation of the features in comparison to ps

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 points 9 hours ago

That's really good. I just don't watch videos, so....

I do understand that many, many people prefer how-to videos, so, like I said, I am very glad that this video exists.

[-] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

As a life-long pirate, having full MS Office, Macromedia and Adobe packages weren't ever a problem, but one day I decided to start using FOSS stuff... and man, getting into GIMP was damn painful, oh, the horror!
I'm very glad for photopea.com when I need to do some quick stuff, but for GIMP, this guy here made a very cool setup to help us Photoshop users https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago

The same with Darktable and Lightroom.

Darktable is more powerful (a few thinhs missing though, like panos) but it's UI is way different and super complex.

[-] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 15 hours ago

If you haven't already, give RawTherapee a try. I can't compare it to Lightroom, but I find it a lot easier to use than Darktable.

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 1 points 9 hours ago

This is proprietary (and running in a web browser does not make it less so)

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