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PhotoGIMP - The Photoshop Like Experience on GIMP (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours 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

https://photogimp.com/

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! πŸ˜„

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

shoutout to diolinux! dude is doing a lot of heavy lifting to help out new linux users over in brazil. and photogimp is quite useful everywhere.

[–] dis_da_mor@anarchist.nexus 39 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

krita is another foss editor

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Krita is an Illustrator replacement not a Photoshop replacement.

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 14 minutes ago

Nah, I use krita for everything Ive used photoshop for over the decades. It has a lot of the same exact filters and ui conventions etc of creative suite era photoshop.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It is my understanding that Kriita is a raster art program, while Illustrator is a vector art program. Inkscape is a vector art program.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

While that is an important distinction. It still needs to be said that Krita is a drawing program like Inkscape and Illustrator not a photo editing program like GIMP or Photoshop.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's kind of a thing; the Adobe suite kind of doesn't have a raster drawing program, Photoshop gets used for that but Photoshop is meant to be a photo editor.

A "digital artist" or "digital painter" will want to use Krita, a "graphic artist" designing logos or signage is gonna want Inkscape, and people wanting to lie via photograph want GIMP.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago

As always every person’s workflow will be their own. I’m honestly not sure what you are arguing.

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 10 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 3 points 7 hours 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 8 points 7 hours 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 4 points 6 hours 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.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 26 points 8 hours 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 18 points 6 hours 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 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Just did that, thanksπŸ‘Œ.

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

[–] nil@piefed.ca 11 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

Vanilla GIMP has superior UX compared to Photoshop imo

[–] oeuf@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 hours ago

I agree. I transitioned to GIMP on my own hardware a couple of years ago but still have to use Photoshop once a week for work.

Panning and zooming - a massive part of graphics UX - is miles better in GIMP for example and makes PS look primitive by comparison.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 20 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

As someone with no PS experience or other baggage weighing me down, I find the default UI to be insanely unintuitive. Im not even sure what the panels on the right or bottom are for, the left toolbar panel randomly disappears on me occasionally and I can never figure out how to get it back without closing and reopening GIMP. Things like Crop don't seem to do anything obvious. Painting with the brush doesn't work unless you first use the selection tool to draw a box around the area you want to use the brush. Etc, etc, etc. Some of this is obviously just because I'm a novice, and I manage to fumble my way through things, but at the same time it could be drastically simplified for simple tasks. It feels like a tool that was built for people who already knew how to use it.

[–] oeuf@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 hours ago

I highly recommend you watch one of the free video courses, from the beginning, on youtube.

GIMP is a really sophisticated piece of software designed for maximum technical control and flexibility. If you can dedicate a few hours to learning it you can do basically anything, for free, forever. If you only need to do basic stuff it might be worth looking at something else like Tux Paint for example, which is faster to pick up. It also has sound effects and is great fun.

[–] morgenman@lemmy.world 28 points 9 hours ago

This is just wrong. I love foss and the effort put into gimp, but there are so many little ux things that it gets wrong.

The big one for me is non destructive resizing of pasted objects. Photoshop puts the little drag handles on them allowing for resizing, the top middle one allows you to rotate, holding the shift key locks proportions etc, all right away after pasting.

On gimp you can open a menu and specify the height and width, or you can click shift + s, which kind of works like Photoshops but is somehow clunkier & destructive when shrinking.

I also really miss smart objects and the universal tool options menu (not sure what it's called but it lives on the top of the canvas on PS and gives you all the relevant options for whatever tool you are using. I'm sure gimp has an equivalent but out of the box I find it much more correct and confusing.

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 26 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Agreeable, but this patch is useful for people coming from photoshop, especially the shortcuts. The muscle memory is hard to fix πŸ˜™

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 9 points 6 hours ago

The muscle memory is hard to fix

Also this is software, we should celebrate and embrace the fact that the same tool can be customized to look and be organized differently to maximally ease users into learning it. This is one of the super powers of software!

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 9 points 9 hours ago

Preach. My key bindings followed me from Avid to FCP to Premiere. Still hittin H for RaHzor.

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

now that is one VERY controversial and brave opinion. I admire you for it.

[–] nil@piefed.ca 4 points 9 hours ago

Really? I don't think Photoshop is any better than GIMP. It's slow, complicated and adobe cloud.

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 1 points 3 hours 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 1 points 56 minutes 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.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Any chance this could install through the Linux Mint Software Manager, for auto updates?

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 54 minutes ago

i have it through software manager and it updates fine (well i have my settings to update flatpaks on login)

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago

Will mint not auto update flatpaks?

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)