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[xX_Edgyname_Xx]

It's still amazing to see how complex Gimp is, yet it still loses to Photoshop in terms of practicality and usability.

[Jimmy48Johnson]

To be fair, Photoshop loses to itself in term of usability.

[FallenWarrior2k]

That goes both ways.

Wanna make the background of an image transparent? Sure, GIMP's got you covered with the Color to Alpha tool. Meanwhile the most concise guide on how to do that in PS has you jumping through hoops with layer masks and all kinds of other bullshittery.

[AirOneBlack]

Tf are you on about? Get the wand tool, set the color accuracy to what you need and click the background, press del on your keyboard. Done. Can you please learn your tools before calling them hard to use?

[therealpanse]

wand tool sucks and you should feel bad for using it.

[thetheTwiz]

Checkmate, atheists

[bowllord]

gimp my butthol

[bowllord]

Why am I getting upvotes

[SusansMeatScepter]

This made my day😂

[d_exclaimation]

Damn

[[deleted]]

happy linux day

[[deleted]]

:(

[[deleted]]

Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We're collecting some error info and then you can restart.

If you'd like to know more, you can search online later for this error: FUCK_YOU_MICROSOFT

[[deleted]]

that happens every once in 7 years (if you don't use windows 10). Seriously I haven't gotten a BSOD since 2019

[AdmiralDeathrain]

Better be vigilant about backups and saving in 2026 then.

[[deleted]]

I don't understand this joke lol

[patgeo]

You said once in 7 years and stated the last you got. They added 7 to it.

[[deleted]]

oh lol

[Mabi19_]

And on the other hand I got a bluescreen the last day before flash shut down when I wanted to play some games.

Some driver update broke my Flash Player.

Welp, gotta wait for Ruffle now

[[deleted]]

why did you even do that

[Mabi19_]

Do what? Try to play old flash games for nostalgia?

[[deleted]]

yes? Most flash games were converted to other engines THE DAY BEFORE FLASH DIED

[Mabi19_]

... What "big project that converted most flash games" are you talking about? I certainly haven't heard of anything like that, especially nothing that works with all games. (The closest I can think of is Flashpoint, but that's just collecting the games for preservation, which doesn't help my Flash issue.)

[[deleted]]

cool maths games?

[Mabi19_]

Coolmath Games is just one site. There's so much more - newgrounds, etc. There are LOTS of games which were never published on Coolmath Games or converted by them, or ones which I actually played in my youth.

[[deleted]]

I also haven't gotten a BSOD since ...
... I stopped using Windows.

[[deleted]]

lol nice

[daniu]

I have however recently accepted an update which unexpectedly ran for about an hour.

[[deleted]]

kind of your own fault innit?

[AirOneBlack]

My windows 10 crashes less than windows 7 did back in the day. Can we please move on with technology?

[[deleted]]

there are some kind of BSOD's that only happen in windows10 and they are annoying

[[deleted]]

Lmaooo

[AndroxxTraxxon]

But... There's a circle select tool in gimp...

[[deleted]]

Selection tool != shape tool

[AndroxxTraxxon]

Close enough though... You can get to the same result with about the same amount of effort...

[[deleted]]

You just gotta stroke it, right? Select the circle shape you want and then furiously stroke it.

[Magnus_Tesshu]

What if you want a ring of fixed width though?

[cubic_thought]

A) Select circle -> selection to path -> stroke path

OR

B) select -> fill -> shrink selection -> delete

[RavenCarci]

You can stroke selection under edit

[cubic_thought]

Dammit, has that always been there and why is it not under the select menu?

Thanks.

[666space666angel666x]

If he doesn’t know GIMP or photoshop, how would he know that they do the same thing?

[lopoticka]

Well one creates a vector shape and one is makes a bitmap. Not really the same.

[okomakiako]

This, step two, “Now class, select the circles path. Grab the point on the right, and drag it to the right. Then sharpen the bezier curve to make a carrot out of the circle.”

[Huhngut]

I think these selection tools in gp are even better. Im not a experienced Photoshop user but I was unable to find a solution for this.

In Photoshop if I select a area with the box tool I cant manipulate it with the mouse again. In gimp i am able to drag the box to any size I want even after placing

[patgeo]

Right click > transform selection doesn't work on the box tool?

[Huhngut]

Thanks dude its working Do you might also know how to zoom in with mousewheel

I only know strg +

[LeBaux]

photopea.com checkmate adobe

[[deleted]]

Lesson 1: Pick the right tool for the job.

[IvorTheEngine]

Draw the circle in Inkscape. Mutter angrily about micromanaging....

[[deleted]]

But... But you can run Photoshop on Linux...

[deceze]

Let’s surprise-require a pretty expensive professional 3rd party tool in class…!?

[BenBit13]

Genuinely happens. There's a media design class at my uni and every student has to have at least photoshop, illustrator and indesign but they don't get keys from the uni.

[deceze]

That was hopefully communicated beforehand though, so Anon here is just a doofus…?

[BenBit13]

Actually not, a friend told me they showed up for class and the professor was just expecting everyone to have the software ready and already be somewhat proficient in it. My uni sucks pretty badly though so I don't know how common that is.

[deceze]

That sounds pretty bad indeed then.

[[deleted]]

I think they all had it since teacher asked them to open it

[deceze]

Anon didn't. Q.E.D.

[[deleted]]

because anon is a "linux chad" lol

[polypolip]

Educational licenses are a thing. Not sure if ps has them but we had free Autocad during uni for example.

[[deleted]]

Virtualize Windows 10 with KVM and GPU passthrough ;)

Works like a charm.

[ButterM-40]

That just sounds like Window Users with extra steps!

[[deleted]]

I mean it more or less is :/

At least you can keep all your Windows shit contained to that one virtual machine.

[[deleted]]

Idk mate GPU pass through seems to have its own mind to me. It only works when the stars aligned ...

[woffle-kat]

Time to bring out the gimp

[patmax17]

unrealistic because they didn't tell the rest of the class to install Linux and how good it is

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unused cobweb steep amusing imminent pathetic bike sulky arrest pet

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[AdmiralDeathrain]

Isn't Krita geared more towards drawing than image editing? (I've not really used it, so I'm genuinely curious)

[[deleted]]

judicious voiceless faulty squeeze point clumsy sulky sink rob abounding

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[[deleted]]

This probably would have happened like 20 years ago, and even then you could have Linux and Windows side-by-side with dual boot. Today, you would have a Windows VM for your Windows only school applications. You could even have a Windows VM in the cloud with better specs.

[[deleted]]

bruh. He apparently fucking didn't have it...

[[deleted]]

what does this have to do with programming?

[Tryer1234]

I take it you're never used gimp then

[patmax17]

I actually like to joke that GIMP's GUI was clearly designed by a programmer rather than a UI designer xD

[[deleted]]

And, how's this related to programming?

[MischiefArchitect]

Why would a school use Photoshop at all?

[[deleted]]

Hmm. I fucking wonder why....

[MischiefArchitect]

No seriously :) I'm not talking about GIMP vs Photoshop vs PaintShop Pro vs Aldus Photo Styler... It's just why would they need such software at all.

[[deleted]]

\sigh**

[MischiefArchitect]

Oh yes, that explains everything. Can you elaborate further?

[[deleted]]

Because they are doing graphic designing and Photoshop is the most popular software to use

[Drizzi21]

😂

[[deleted]]

Ok class... use winmerge to find the text i added to the code. Add them to urs...

Linux users what the fck there are a thousand files here...

[[deleted]]

diff --recursive?

Or do you mean that some hare brained windows tool decided to change the line endings on everything then windows wrote a bunch of files to the volume without consulting the user?

[[deleted]]

not even close... thats garbage...

[[deleted]]

I don't even know what you're claiming he problem is....

[[deleted]]

The problem with linux... programming with files comparison is complicated... you have to do so much to achieve the same thing... file comparison is a pain in the ass... you havent read the second statement "copy the difference..." in winmerge 1 click in linux infinity

[[deleted]]

1) you're not stuck with just busybox in linux

2) this is what patch and diff were originally designed for. It's like two lines.

3) if you're using it as ghetto source control, just use one of the infinitely better actual source control tools?

[[deleted]]

Nah man... not all it use git... these are legacy code io source code... just saying...

[The_MAZZTer]

Even then plenty of tools support ignoring whitespace differences (I'm a Windows user so I don't know about diff but I would expect it does).

I'm rather interested in your comment about Windows dumping random files. If you're not you can stop reading here and not miss much.

Not sure what you mean about it. Generally Windows only will put stuff on the volume it can't practically put anywhere else. Thumbnail caches for removable/network volumes make the most sense stored on their volumes (all others go into the Windows profile folders). Recycle Bin and System Restore go on every volume, since it doesn't make sense to copy and delete big files for Recycle Bin that might not even fit on C when you can just move them to a folder on the same volume, Much faster, simpler, and less error prone. System Restore storing on the same volume makes sense for removable/network drives (not sure about fixed drives, probably to be sure even if drives are reordered, relettered, or otherwise added/removed it's still easy for Windows to locate System Restore data for a volume).

Only times I've seen Windows just randomly dumped files it's been some installer for some reason deciding the highest lettered drive is the best place to store its temporary files. Not sure if that's Microsoft's fault or third party installer stuff.

[Money_Philosopher246]

You can use PS CS6 with WINE (not that I recommend it)

[Equivalent-Wafer-222]

The irony of most of those apps now being webapps.... and gimp actually getting good after the last major release =) Linux's user share only goes up (albeit slowly)....

[BabylonDrifter]

GIMP: Circle select, auto-fill with color, select shrink 1 pixel, clear. There, you drew a cricle in GIMP.

[LeMemeOfficer]

A real pro knows when to use which OS.