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PhotoGIMP - The Photoshop Like Experience on GIMP (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by ekZepp@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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A patch for optimizing GIMP 3.0+ for Adobe Photoshop users, including features like:

Tool organization to mimic the position of Adobe Photoshop;
New Splash Screen;
New default settings to maximize space on the canvas;
Shortcuts similar to the ones in Photoshop for Windows, following Adobe's Documentation;
New icon and Name from custom .desktop file.

https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP/blob/master/screenshots/photogimp_3_-_diolinux.png

Flatpak (Linux)

In order to install the newest version of PhotoGIMP on your Linux operating system using Flatpak, just follow this simple steps:

Make sure you already have GIMP installed from Flathub; (for Ubuntu/Mint user just select Flatpak below the install button in the manager)
Start and quit GIMP after you installed before you continue!
Download the files from this repository or just click here - > https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP/releases/download/3.0/PhotoGIMP-linux.zip
Extract the content of the zip file on your home folder (.config and .local - they are the important ones) and overwrite the files if needed; (if you can't see the file click Ctrl+H to see hidden files)

-You're done, enjoy it! 😄

Heal tool selection plugin

https://lemmy.world/post/41519415/21524091

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[–] dis_da_mor@anarchist.nexus 79 points 1 month ago (13 children)

krita is another foss editor

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Of the 2, I've come to prefer Krita. Acly replaces most of Photoshop's generative tools cleanly and improves upon them with features like pose vectors and live mode.

[–] cloudskater@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Eww "generative" AI get that shit away from me

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[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Krita is missing one feature that I rely on often - setting the white point in the levels tool.

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Krita should letcha set the white point in the levels tool. But it won't letcha pick white with the eyedropper, which is a notable omission.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's the problem I have - it's something I end up doing on an awful lot of photos. I need that tool.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago

At it's heart, Krita is a drawing program with a few concessions to photo editing/manipulation. Whereas Gimp is a photo editing software with a few concessions to drawing.

Unless Krita decides to go the full adobe route and try to do both (which I doubt will ever happen), a feature like setting a white point (or any feature that isn't solely useful for photography but not drawing) will ever be in it.

People making the comparison as though Gimp and Krita are both trying to do the same thing are utterly exhausting.

[–] Sektor@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Editor? It's a drawing software.

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Thank you. Works well. I'm much happier with the interface I used for over 30 years in Photoshop, it's helpful to have that emulated somewhat in GIMP.

I also tracked down how to set the scroll wheel to zoom without the need for the Ctrl key, which was another annoyance. I've tried before to discover this, but failed. Maybe I was looking at the official documentation, which could use some work. Anyway, here's how to get the scroll wheel to zoom without the Ctrl key:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQoz__idQKM

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 29 points 1 month ago

To save anyone from having to watch a video:

Edit > Preferences > Input Devices > Input Controllers > Main Mouse Wheel

In this menu, double-click "Scroll Up", and select view-zoom-in-accel. Then do the same to "Scroll Down" with the value view-zoom-out-accel.

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Just did that, thanks👌.

btw the comand x me was just : view-zoom-in view-zoom-out

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey OP, please remove the photogimp[.]com from your post body, as it's not an official webpage of the project and could lead to something like clueless people installing viruses off of it. Thanks in advance.

(Also, for those who are Brazillian, or just speak Portuguese for one reason or another, I highly recommend the YouTube channel belonging to the people behind this patch –Diolinux (YT) (website))

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[–] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago

Much, if not all of this, you can set up yourself, without a lot of installing things...

But people really would be better of, getting used to GIMP as it is, because it will cause problems later on, on updates and if the project discontinues and so forth.

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Now we need NotepadKwrite.

[–] helix@feddit.org 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (13 children)

Kate, Geany and Micro are already pretty good.

I'd argue that they're even better than Notepad++. There's certainly no shortage of good text editors on Linux...

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[–] rhon@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

What about https://notepadqq.com/ ?

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[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

if this improves how gimp handles fonts I'd use it.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I do not think it impacts that. Have you used GIMP3? Way better text handling.

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it's not though. I just tried it and you can't highlight text and then scroll through fonts. you still need to know specifically what font you want or know all the fonts installed on your system. Unlike photoshop where you can highlight text and then scroll through the fonts you have installed which will change the highlighted text to whatever font on the fly. Gimp still to this day doesn't do that.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

Not in the popup dialog, but in the text tool properties (on the left under the tools after you select the tool). You can scroll through the fonts there and your selected font will apply to the currently selected text.

My biggest pet peeve is having to scroll past 5000 versions of Noto font.

[–] rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

is this maintained enough ? 9 month since last commit. also I would love to see illustrator/inkscape ui same project ヽ(♡‿♡)ノ

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