I'm actually crying right now. I've just wasted 10 minutes of my life trying to get this piece of shit to draw a colored rectangle border to highlight a fucking paragraph. Why the fuck didn't I just use Paint.NET in the first place? Use FLOSS that respects your freedom they said. I hope every single one of you GIMP shills die a horrible death. FUCK. YOU.
Or you could stop being autistic and get Photoshop CC
>>54581579
>i don't know how to use something
>hurr hurr kill thyself
have you tried to turn it off and on again?
>>54581579
>>54581586
GIMP is really easy, we use it here at my office on a day-to-day basis.
Photoshop is fine, but you're supporting Adobe.
Post the image, I'll do it for you anon.
Paint.NET is god tier.
With pyrochild plugin pack I never used GIMP since.
>>54581608
How do you draw a rectangle?
Can paint.net do everything that GIMP can?
>I'm actually crying right now
Jesus
>>54581579
>I've just wasted 10 minutes of my life trying to get this piece of shit to draw a colored rectangle border to highlight a fucking paragraph.
Fucking MS paint can do that, you have bigger issues in your life
Gimp crashes on me every time without fail sooner or later so I never use it.
>>54581625
Make rectangle selection, transform it into a border with given thickness, fill it in.
>>54581625
No
>>54581579
What's the matter senpai, it's pretty easy
GIMP can not even into multiple layer selection
two year old bug report and counting
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730216
>>54581660
Is this a joke or you really have to go through all those steps? lmfao
>>54581660
ahmed, pls
>>54581684
Open Source is supposed to be free, not easy to use.
Speaking of free graphics editors, which one is better - paint.net or krita? I see that krita has kinda more advanced and sleek photoshop-a-like interface.
>>54581703
This. This is amazing. This is the exact reason why Linux will never get more than 1% of market share. I'm screencappping your comment to show how retarded freetards are.
>>54581666
Thank fuck you're not that idiot tripfag.
>>54581579
Draw a rectangle
Save selection to a path
Stroke the path
>>54581684
It's an image manipulation program, not a pixel art creation tool.
>>54581713
They're totally aimed at different things. Gimp is for editing, krita is for drawing
>>54581579
krita >>>>>>>>>>...>>>>>>> gimp
>>54581713
pinta
gimp is a raster editor.
not a fucking graphics drawing program.
use inkscape/krita/gnome paint/whatever fuck else there is.
>>54581579
>I'm actually crying right now
I can't stop laughing
We all know that feel OP
>>54581660
You can also fill a rectangle, then shrink the selection by X pixels to set how thick you want the border to be, and then press delete.
>>54581713
Paint.net is not free.
Krita is obviously superior to GIMP for drawing but its editing capabilities are limited.
>>54581749
why have ii never heard of this before
>>54581782
Fuck off, every other editor can do it with less steps.
>>54581836
Gimp gives you the tools to do whatever you want with.
The simpler editors give you tools to do predetermined common tasks with.
>>54581836
Photoshop requires four as well.
>Marquee tool to make rectangle
>Fill with FG colour
>Stroke tool to create border
>Delete fill colour
>>54581579
Nothing wrong with GIMP.
Here, I made you in it.
>>54581803
You need a brain to use GIMP.
>>54581988
Thirty cents per post? Damn son that guy must be an experienced shill. Maybe even a supervisor.
>>54581954
DELETE THIS
>>54582011
He's a senior shill manager. Look at his jewelry and suit.
>>54581666
Nice satanic trips and nice new meme
>>54581579
IF YOU ACTUALLY READ THE DOCUMENTATION.
They tell you how GIMP is NOT DESIGN with drawing in mind and tell you to use Inkscape instead.
>>54581954
git gud, scrub
;3
>>54582134
So three, just like GIMP if you take shortcuts.
>This is somehow worth $500
>>54582130
That icon with a drawbrush is wildly misleading don't ya think?
>>54582206
Only if you think MS Paint is also a drawing program.
>>54582185
Keyboard shortcuts make everything faster.
>>54582185
GIMP has really bad antialiasing on some fonts
>>54581579
Maybe you should learn to computer first.
the free transform tool crashes on 2.8., which version do I get it to work?
>it's another "retard uses GIMP outside of it's use case and complains" thread
Fucking kill yourself illiterate retards
>>54581644
no. but it can do a lot. if you deem the task very simple, too simple to use gimp/PS. go with paint.net
>>54581684
In your opinion, would it be better to have a dedicated tool for this, than to use existing tools intelligently and avoid bloated toolbars?
in GIMP, how could you change the color of something, say the eyes or the lips.
>>54581703
What a retarded argument. You are only propagating the stigma that open source and freeware are low quality concepts and barely usable. Open Source is supposed to be free AND functional, as the result of a collaborative effort of multiple people who, for one reason or another, share the ideal that you should not have to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars for a functional and easy to use program.
>>54582570
select the area and do your colourize tricks and whatever
>>54581579
>I'm actually crying right now
I, too, would cry if I were as retarded as you appear to be.
>>54582573
>freeware
Holy shit...
>people unironically shilling for proprietary software
>for free
>on /g/
Normies get the fuck out
>>54582722
Any talk of normie-tier software, like image editing, brings out the retard hordes.
>>54582134
Exactly like GIMP
>>54581579
Oh shit Paint.Net was updated?
Thanks OP
>>54582562
It would be better to have a dedicated tool with an option to remove said tool from the toolbar for those who don't want it.
>>54581579
would you switch to Photoshop CS2 instead?
I think that one is still Libre
>>54582871
Gimp is a little faster
>>54583188
>Adobe
>Libré
You sound new and that's fine but please read about what free/libré software is before posting here again.
>>54581954
Literally one step in PS
>>54581734
>a path
A path? Save to a path??
>>54582509
so what is exactly GIMP's use case
im really curious
>>54583506
It's for MANIPULATING pre-existing images. It is not for drawing. Use krita for that. Do you even know what GIMP stands for?
>>54583529
Yes, Green Is My Peper.
>>54583529
Green is my poopy?
>>54583506
It's in the name: GNU Image Memefication Program.
It's for making memes. Meme magic doesn't work if it wasn't made in GIMP.
>>54583542
>>54583529
Your mouth is for manipulating penis.
In Krita is also a single step, select rectangle tool and draw it, GIMP is complete crap at this point.
ITT literal retards using proffesional software, that are too dumb to use other programs for simplest task X----DDD
>having to pay for software in order to draw rectangles
gimp is just a base tool for things related to image manipulation.
if you have more specific needs, make a script that does that and use that the next ten times you need to do something.
If it seems usable for more people than you, share it with people, there is basically only two developers on gimp, so I don't think it should be hard to get them to accept a feature
>>54582570
like that retard
>>54581579
Use libreoffice draw or inkscape
>>54581579
Paint.NET is good. You can even do instagram-tier of stuff in it :^)
>>54581579
I unironically had to google 'how to draw a cicle on gimp" last week
Why use GIMP when PS CS2 is literally free?
>>54583529
>Use krita for that
why is it so heavy?
>>54581608
>but you're supporting Adobe.
Who the fuck pays for photoshop for personal use?
And yeah OP, fuck GIMP. I feel like I'm wearing a gimp suit when using it.
>>54583439
This, what the fuck is with these other webms? Photoshop has shape tools where you define everything in the toolbar and just drag out the bitch
>>54583912
Gratis != free
>>54583878
Please abstain from using Google as a verb.
>>54583912
It's literally not
>>54583920
Because apt is making you install all of KDE. If you were using gentoo then you could just add -kde to your USE flags and avoid that bloat
>>54584014
--no-install-recommends also works but it's still qt and if you didn't install that you will need it.
>>54583912
Just don't forget to security patch it. (3 plug-ins)
https://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb07-13.html
>>54581579
>>54581625
>>54581652
>>54581660
>>54581736
>>54581744
>>54581782
>>54581803
>>54582134
>>54582286
>>54582509
>>54583878
how do you people breath on your own.
Its select - draw along selection + optional fill with color in GIMP. and you can do other fucking shapes with this. i mean holy shit its not like you use Photoshop to draw rectangles all the time it doesnt have to be quick, better precise.
>people this retarded on a technology board
Just another bunch of hypocrites whining about the fact that you have to know how to use a software before actually using it.
Grow up kids
This was created entirely in GIMP.
Can GIMP do this?
>>54584242
>not "my wife's thread"
6/10
Is there a Paint equiv on Linux? I fucking love paint desu
>>54584402
I bet there is some gnome package for that. Check alternativeto
>>54584449
>top hit is GIMP
lel, but thanks should find something close enough
>>54584468
mypaint
>>54584176
[spoiler]/thread[/spoiler]
>>54584402
they say Pinta is a close clone to Paint.net
never tried it myself.
>>54584468
So why not just use GIMP? Paint on Windows can't even resize images since it uses nearest-neighbour.
>tfw I've been using GIMP so much these days that I'm a bit at a loss when I use PS
I dunno why GIMP doesn't have basic shape tools though. Their rationale is really fucking poor, all you really need to do is fucking draw a border around something usually. It's stupid, basic quality-of-life shit that has no reason to not be there. It's not that important, but you'll miss it when it's not there.
like, you could make a cube by fucking around a bunch with the teapot model in 3DS Max or whatever, or you could just use the fucking cube tool
you could fuck around with selections in photoshop, or just use the fucking rectangle tool
>>54581665
this shit is probably more of a day-to-day problem that I encounter, not being able to select multiple layers at once or apply effects to multiple layers at once is entirely, completely, utterly retarded
>>54581652
the fact that GIMP doesn't have backup save is the dumbest shit in the world
reading the bug comments is pretty much the most autistic thing I've ever encountered
someone eventually wrote a script to do it, but there is zero reason this shouldn't be part of the default install
It's a simple feature that got derailed and there's all kind of claims that Gimp is stable (it is fucking not, not even on Linux like they claim).
not even asking for magic, just "autosave every __ minutes to ~filename.xcf", or maybe even have it do ~filename-bak1.xcf, ~filename-bak2.xcf, etc
>>54584176
>draw shape with selection tools, Edit -> stroke along selection (draw, alt+E, S)
that's neat-o, I guess
>>54584343
easily
too easily
>>54584402
>tfw I usually just install the NT4 paint in Wine on Linux
there's probably something, I haven't bothered looking
>>54584615
Because it's not made to draw silly shapes ya dingus. That's the whole discussion in the thread
Gimp is really good for aesthetics. Made that in 3 minutes
GIMP is so fucking stupid and useless I can't help but think it's a satire designed to get people to just pirate photoshop already.
I tried to use it, I really did, but holy shit how can anybody use this thing?
>>54584888
it's a miracle, just like magnets
>>54584840
>not made
But it can, just as easily and more robustly than paint.
OP's a pussy; I don't even cry when I'm bullied.
>>54584888
>hur dur this program isn't an exact direct copy of x program
>therefore it's bad
At what point did GIMP ever tout itself as a direct competitor to PS? Never. It's an open source raster editor, and if you want to use it you read the documentation and learn it instead of complaining why it doesn't emulate PS to the core. Goddamn retard.
>>54584818
>I dunno why GIMP doesn't have basic shape tools though.
but it does
>the fact that GIMP doesn't have backup save is the dumbest shit in the world
>someone eventually wrote a script to do it
ok so then the functionality exists, what's the problem?
>It's not that important, but you'll miss it when it's not there.
>someone eventually wrote a script to do it, but there is zero reason this shouldn't be part of the default install
if you want new things to be part of the default install then why don't you start your own fork
the thing retards like you STILL don't understand is that any small feature or patch that gets added has a maintenance cost, if you want features added you can work on it yourself or you can pay someone else to do it
>>54584888
perseverance
GIMP's biggest problem is that it's not being made by people who really use it for anything, the most they'll do is scribble a bit with the paint tool or adjust the color balance on an image. Doing more major work begins to fall apart rapidly. As an free (gratis) and free (libre) project, the devs don't have an incentive to really listen to the users or even worry about competing projects/products.
Saying "users can go fix it themselves and submit a patch" just leads to a shitty piece of software, most users care quite a lot about the lack of a feature, but not even remotely enough to go add it.
Blender has a bit of this problem too, although it's a damn sight more competitive with the pro products it's in the same category as than GIMP, even if it's still not terribly great.
>>54585071
It's a poor raster editor. Sure, it handles the most basic, superficial tasks with ease, but that's it.
fuck, here's an easy example of how shit gimp is
>need to filter a couple of layers the same way
>okay, I can't select multiple layers, but I can stick them in a layer group
>open filter, preview looks fine, hit okay
>Calling error for procedure 'gimp-drawable-merge-shadow': Item 'Layer Group' (12) cannot be modified because it is a group item
and that's inexcusable
>>54585178
Not selection tools, but actual raster drawing shape tools.
The scripts are a pain to install for normal, average users. Sure, I could go download the script, setup Perl on this machine, edit my GIMP startup to run the script at launch, etc, but for the regular Joe using GIMP? Probably not.
Is there a maintenance cost to all of this? Sure. But that's not even the rationale the developers give when they reject the feature requests, that would be a more reasonable, understandable response than anything I've seen.
>>54581734
>stroke the path
Sounds hot ;^)
