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submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/linux@programming.dev

A patch for optimizing GIMP 3.0+ for Adobe Photoshop users, including features like:

  • Tool organization to mimic the position of Adobe Photoshop;
  • New Splash Screen;
  • New default settings to maximize space on the canvas;
  • Shortcuts similar to the ones in Photoshop for Windows, following Adobe's Documentation;
  • New icon and Name from custom .desktop file.

https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP/blob/master/screenshots/photogimp_3_-_diolinux.png

https://photogimp.com/

Flatpak (Linux)

In order to install the newest version of PhotoGIMP on your Linux operating system using Flatpak, just follow this simple steps:

  • Make sure you already have GIMP installed from Flathub; (for Ubuntu/Mint user just select Flatpak below the install button in the manager)

  • Start and quit GIMP after you installed before you continue!

  • Download the files from this repository or just click here - > https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP/releases/download/3.0/PhotoGIMP-linux.zip

  • Extract the content of the zip file on your home folder (.config and .local - they are the important ones) and overwrite the files if needed; (if you can't see the file click Ctrl+H to see hidden files)

-You're done, enjoy it! 😄

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[-] st3ph3n@midwest.social 1 points 5 hours ago

I'd love if something like this existed to make Raw Therapee or Darktable look/work more like Lightroom. I've been trying to learn them but the years of time spent in Lightroom is hard to overcome.

[-] MxRemy@piefed.social 24 points 2 days ago

I love GIMP in general, and I usually don't mind learning new layouts and workflows and stuff. However, I am perplexed by GIMP's default keyboard shortcuts. Like, shift-B for bucket fill, because they needed B for... paths? Scale is shift-T because they needed shift-S for shear of all things? Is shear a way bigger part of your everyday workload than scale? Also 3 different keys is entirely too many for the "Fit image in window" and "select none" shortcuts, I use those all the time.

I'm just picking for fun though, GIMP is awesome and nothing could make me go back to Adobe lol

[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 5 points 1 day ago

The default shortcuts make 0 sense

[-] vikingtons@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I want to like it so much but you've hit the nail on the head there.

I'll give it another crack with this patch though.

[-] Wigglesworth@retrolemmy.com 12 points 2 days ago

be so dedicated and stubborn that you change the entire UI of another program instead of learning it.

I want to say I don't do this, but here I am using nano instead of vi.

[-] pryre@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Sure, one could learn a new program, new UI, new plugins... Or you could use something that follows your conventions and do what you actually want to do; edit photos (or edit text without knowing the cryptic string to save it).

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I want to say I don’t do this, but here I am using nano instead of vi.

it is me.

[-] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago

PhotoGIMP

GIMPShop

There really is no good portmanteau of the two products.

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago
[-] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

Actually great.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

PimpMyPhoto.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

both are great names

T. BDSM enjoyer

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Nothing wrong with photogimp.

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

GimPhotoshop.

[-] msokiovt@lemmy.today 17 points 2 days ago

This helps Photoshop addicts get out of Photoshop and into GIMP. That I can confirm myself (though I'm no Photoshop addict).

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I'm absolutely terrible with image editing software, but I use gimp on occasion.

It's so few and far between that I want to kill myself everytime I need to do something in it and can't remember anything at all.

[-] Samueru_sama@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

I make an appimage of this here

Just rename it to have photogimp in the title to enable it, otherwise it defaults to regular gimp3.

[-] refalo@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

it's giving me GIMPshop flashbacks

[-] foodandart@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago

Hmm. I'll give this a whirl, have been running dual boot on my macs for years and kinda stuck with Mojave as it was the last macOS to run 32-bit code. Been sitting on my copy of PSCS3 since I bought it in 2007 and I have tons of custom brushes and really nifty plug-ins that I have been loathe to let go of. 19 years isn't a bad run, I'll be moving to Linux shortly on all my Macs, so it is finally about time to leap.

Thanks for the link!

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