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To be fair

• GIMP is really good
• GIMP is hella complex to use

For example there was a (now enshittified) tool on Android called "image attacher" or something, for making a long image from 2.

This is probably also pretty easy with some CLI tool.

I actually took the time to learn "how do I attach 2 images together" in GIMP.

Or "how do I create a textmarker".

And the stuff works, but its just very complex.

attach 2 images

• Open 1 image
• "open" "open as another layer" the second image
• your canvas is as big as the first image. Guess how big it has to be when fitting them next to each other
• know that there is a difference between "layer surface" and "canvas" for whatever reason
• in the menubar, find the canvas options
• find where to resize the canvas and make it bigger
• click on the surface layer of the other image and move it so it fits where you want it
• use "merge downwards" to make the 2 layer one. BE CAREFUL TO NOT USE ANY IMAGE PARTS
• use the crop tool
• crop the new combined images to the wanted size

This is sooo manual and seems very hacky. The difference between canvas and layer make no sense to me. The enlargement is "eyeballing". The cropping too. There is no snapping when placing next to each other. There is no "dynamically increase canvas size" option afafaik.

text marker / highlighter

Something with brush, make it bigger, yellow, reduce the opaqueness, change the paint mode to "only make darker"

GIMP is like using cat awk and tail to write an office document lol. It works but it is damn technical.

But if you know how to do it, you know how to do it.

Least toxic Linux thread

Oh, vim community became gimp community.

The amount of times I see, "Have you tried just googling it?" As a response to a tech issue is too damn high.

The best part is seeing those answers in threads that I got to by googling my question.

"Thank you for your helpful advise of 'just Google it' I've now found dozens of threads with that exact same answer to the question I have."

Dinosaur here.

Windows Paint, as it was back in 9x? Totally my jam. Between that and Irfanview for access to resizing and filter features Paint didn't have, I could get a surprising amount done.

But then they updated Paint to have more advanced abilities and I had no idea how to do things any more.

I've tried Krita recently, but I felt lost. I think I need to attend a course or watch some videos on layers and the brushes and everything like that. It isn't intuitive at all. None of the advanced graphics programs are.

Old Paint? You didn't need a how-to or a course. It was one layer. No overwhelming number of tools and options. You wanted another layer? You opened another Paint window.

You wanted anti-aliasing? You drew things two or four times the size then used something like Irfanview to shrink it down when you were done.

Damn kids get off my etc.

Affinity really needs to start making official Linux ports. It’ll work in Wine, but is a bit janky.

It's just bots being bots

A person shows up in a room full of random people. Punches one in the face and starts swinging at everyone else. People instinctively start to defend themselves and, as they are more numerous, overwhelm and badly wound the instigator. OP walks into the room, "everyone in this room is so violent, look everyone, they are so violent". People outside the room hearing OP, "yeah, I bet anyone like them is just as violent".

“GIMP = Epic POS. Do not use. Please recommend a decent alternative. Don't waste your time with GIMP help because I am done.”

Krita

Always has been, and I am using Linux since 1993 (my first install was kernel 0.99, on floppies, on a 486DX50)

It looks like this was asked in a GIMP forum, so I’m not really surprised at the backlash. It’s super rude to ask that in that forum. Like, they shouldn’t be rude back, but I understand why they were.

GIMP is already a suitable requirement

I've been using gimp for as long as I can remember using Linux since 2000. The interface has changed so much lately that I can barely use it. I can't find half the controls anymore.

Photopea. It's photoshop but on your browser.

many such cases. good to call it out, and needs to happen more often and consistently as toxicity is the #1 barrier to the “year of the Linux desktop” in my experience

edit: also https://krita.org/

Well, at least you don't have to suck dicks or whatever to vote and post comments like in ShitStackOverflow