• @TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    271 year ago

    I really wish I liked gimp but I hate it so much. It’s so unintuitive it actually hurts every time I use it

    • @tsugu@slrpnk.netOP
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      241 year ago

      That’s what I used to think as well actually. I opened it, saw the airplane control center, and closed it. But then I volunteered for editing a photo for my school, and I had to learn how to effectively create borders around the text, as I would have to makes a lot of changes to them. So I searched and came across this video. And then I understood that GIMP is actually a really powerful tool, you just have to learn how the developers intended you to work with it. Admittedly, having to use the drop shadow feature for text borders is pretty retarded, but it lets you fine tune the how the end result will look.

      • @TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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        41 year ago

        I’ll give the video a watch but yeah I’ve used it countless times at this point. Doing extremely basic things like adding text to a document is painful for me due to the extremely weird way layers and selection works. Not to mention basic stuff like zoom shortcut keys standard everywhere else do not work.

    • @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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      101 year ago

      Iphone has always been pitched as intuitive and “it just works”, and it seems like it is that way for iphone users.

      But when I try using one I’m lost as hell. It seems God awful. In other words, intuitive is whatever you’re used to.

      • @TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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        41 year ago

        It’s not just what you are used to, but yes that can play a role. I think apple gets a pass because of the image they have. My mom has an iphone and struggles with anything new or changed on it. But people told her it’s the easiest phone so she’ll never switch…

    • I feel the same about Krita. I used it for about a year of hobbyist drawing, and I just never could get comfortable using it.

      Clip Studio Paint came out with 3.0, and after some deliberation I decided to pay for the update. Felt like coming home. I’ve done more art in two weeks than I’ve done in nearly a year of using Krita.