• macniel@feddit.org
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    4 months ago

    It’s so tiring…

    Use the circle selection tool, mark an area, fill it with a solid colour/gradient/texture or morph it further or stroke the path to create a hollow circle

    So many options that amount to more than just a shape tool.

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      4 months ago

      Unintuitive.

      I heard of photoshop when I was 13 and I installed a pirated version, just started clicking around and I always found what I wanted in a minute.

      10 Years later, I switch 100% to Linux, I have to do some light design work, I open gimp - I CLICK AROUND FOR HALF AN HOUR FOR SOMETHING SIMPLE - can’t find it to save my life. Give up and google it, it gives me a reply like yours “just go to a completely unrelated menu to conjure a hack out of your ass that barely resembles what you originally intended to do”.

      Fuck that UX man. I am so glad pirated photoshop works well in wine nowadays and I have a VM with a legit Adobe suite if I ever need to actually whip up my license for some reason (fuck adobe as well btw.)

      I pray that one day there is a real competitor that works natively on Linux. I pay, take my hard earned money every month, whatever it takes, just make it intuitive and reach near feature parity with PS.

      If anybody is still reading, sorry for venting, the GIMPs always trigger me, have a nice day.

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      4 months ago

      So many options that amount to more than just a shape tool.

      If I wanted to learn some arcane bullshit to draw a circle Id just learn C++.

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        Spoiler: most people don’t care about “year of the linux desktop”. Linux works for me and those losers on windows be damned. Why should we cater to them? Especially since they won’t put any effort into learning linux.

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          I wouldn’t have switched personally if Linux ui was still shit. I put the effort into learning because the initial experience was good enough to warrent delving deeper into it.

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      Wouldn’t that simply create a bitmap circle, though? The advantage of shapes in Photoshop is that they are vectors.

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        Select circle -> save selection as path. There’s your vector. I’d, however, use some vector app for vector graphics, independent of the OS I’m using.

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      That’s several more steps than it ought to take. Including the step of having to look this up, because you’d never intuitively figure this out on your own.