The last version of Photoshop that I used was version 7 on Windows XP. I switched to GIMP and haven't looked back. Mostly because I hate Abobe's subscription model. I absolutely hate the direction tech companies have been going in the past decade. Planned obsolesces, dumbing down, subscriptions, telemetry, etc. I want to go back in time...
Photoshop CS6 was the last one purchaseable but i keep CS2 around for reasons that they patched out the license server check and they can't take that one away.
Used Photoshop CS5, was disgusted by the new Adobe subscription model, tried Gimp a few days, was disgusted by the software, uninstalled it and hacked Photoshop instead. Today I'm no more a broke student so I am a very happy user of Affinity Photo.
I bought a used copy of CS3 and then used the s/n to download the version that doesn't care about the authorisation server. It means I'm stuck with OS 10.9.5 forever but computers are so cheap now I just use different machines for different tasks.
I transitioned from Microsoft Windows to Linux in 2009-2010, taught myself to use GIMP and Inkscape, and have never looked back. Both are available for $0.00 and allow me to do everything that I need to do, including commercial work, photo restoration, and Web site design, and maintenance.
@@hammerheadcorvette4 1000% this! Inkscape is an awesome tool I use it for so many things. Display, web, and print graphics; wed site design; 3D printing and CNC milling.
Great thing about GIMP is that it allows the ferociously interested young minds who have not touched Photoshop but love to tinker with images a path to get involved in imaginative editing. I have no use for it, but watched the whole presentation just for the calming effect of Deke's voice ;) It's a noble thing you do for learners Deke, extending yourself out into the wilderness like this, with all the same grace & style and subtle comedy of a Photoshop tutorial.
"ferociously interested young minds" The kind of misuse of adjectives we'd expect from a gimpster, who uses a program that requires tutorials on how to perform the most mundane actions.
@@alphaforce6998 Photoshop has relied on decades worth of these kinds of tutorials on YT and in books before that. Adobes UI is not any more intuitive its just been accepted for longer.
I used to teach photoshop but photoshop would not allow an education version at the time. As I don't teach students to pirate software I moved to GIMP. 10 years later I am a total open source convert. I love GIMP and also Blender, Inkscape, Darktable and Audacity. I note that if text has been rasterized and you want to edit mostly you just select text icon and click on rasterized text it will remove shadow and edit text. Then put drop shadow back on. Thanks for video
Hi, I'm an indie game developer and I'm looking for a simple free program with which I can edit TGA images. Do you know a progam that is not so complicate like GIMP and IS commercialy free to use ?
@@dekeNow I have installed many years ago many times GIMP and it was almost an overkill. And if I remember correct was it over 1GB big. Later was Photofiltre my favorite free program, but only for private projects.
You should include full disclosure that it's actually NOT ready. From the site: "So, what exactly is a “release candidate” (RC)? A release candidate is something that might be ready to be GIMP 3.0, but we want the larger community to test it first and report any problems they find."
@@braddavis5802 A lot of it has been rebuilt from scratch. It has its flaws and it has its strengths. I've been using GIMP to edit photos and even for photo manipulation for at least 15 years now and it has gotten better over the years but compared to, say, Affinity Photo or Photoshop it is not even close. But it is still capable, even now using the 2.x variety it is very capable. On top of it all it is free, unlike Affinity Photo and Photoshop.
@@braddavis5802 It's like 20 years behind Photoshop or even Affinity. Photopea is also free and is almost to the level of Photoshop, being pretty much a clone of it. And yeah, available literally on everything since it runs in a browser. Absolutely no reason to bother with GIMP.
Around 12 years ago I created a music video for a singer only using Gimp and Final Cut. I had to crea snow for a scene that was recorded in front of a Green Screen. I've been using Gimp for more than 15 years now and I'm not planning to switch to other Pic Editors anytime soon.
Tiny icons by default must be a Windows thing. Here in Unix/BSD/Linux land, we have desktop environments that allow for custom auto-scaling for high-res displays -- makes life instantly easy by default.
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GIMP rocked my world since 2003-ish. Grokking the GIMP was the best tutorial ever and likely still valid today in terms of the concepts. Are the tools clunky? Yes. But it's also a strong point in that things don't jump around and change all the time. It's doing what I expect from it and with some patience I can create a masterpiece. Stuff all the other exuberantly expensive software out there.
I had little faith in free software that competed with the 'big boys'.. Fortunately, every one of them are absolutely incredible for a completely free product. I use Blender, Audacity and Gimp/Inkscape.. I've used them for over a Decade now. I use to use Pro Tools and Photoshop. After trying these, I've never had a second thought about it... Harder? No! Things are just set up different. It's ALL there and nothing is 'harder'.
If you need to go further than Audacity, Reaper is a good choice. It's not entirely free (although you can use it with the startup nag indefinitely), but is a very reasonably priced DAW compared to the other "big boy" offerings. It has been called "The Linux of DAWS".
I'm using GIMP since the late '00s. Nobody will tell me it's a bad program. It's like saying WordPad is bad. Sure, it's not Word, but WordPad has it's uses. And in fact, I use WordPad, LibreOffice Writer *and* Word for different things. Writer less so today. And I use GIMP regularly and it's more than enough for free. People who are mocking GIMP for not being Photoshop level are clown. They are suckers who pay for what I can have for free, just because it's a little more convenient here and there (and they probably doesn't even use Photoshop to the full potential anyway). And he fact that Photoshop cost around $20 monthly is ridiculous. $20 monthly? I would say it would be fair price if it was lifetime license. But monthly? People either want to brag they are rich or they are just suckers that pay that much for something they could have for free. Or both.
I used GIMP for several years before switching to Affinity Photo. GIMP was a very capable program, but for me Affinity represented a more user friendly package at a very reasonable price. I haven't tried GIMP again since switching to Affinity, so I'm not sure how much it's improved.
Also, although not a 1:1 replacement, Krita is a good alternative to GIMP. Which one is more suitable for someone is hard to say; just take them both out for a spin and make your own opinion.
@@midoevil7 Drawing/painting is the main focus of Krita, but it's a very capable program in a lot of ways. It got a lot of features before Gimp, like color management or HDR, that are very much necessary in editing. I can't think of anything that Gimp has that Krita doesn't (I can easily think of things that Krita has that Gimp hasn't, but most are for drawing and animation). And whatever Krita might be missing right now, the chances that it's gonna get it sooner or later are high, the development work they got going is great. You can't say the same about Gimp, which sadly stagnated a long time ago. I still like Gimp, but since I switched, I never missed anything. In any case, they can both use the same files, so you can switch from one to the other. The one major pain point (but they're getting better at it), is still text. Krita is weird and buggy about it, but you can still work with it.
Krita is way better than Gimp. I'm a Gimp, Blender, Photoshop, 3DS, solidworks, and other commercial video multimedia stuff professional. My daily driver is Kali Linux, but when I use Microsoft and Mac (which is everyday for about 3 hours) then I use Photoshop and adobe stuff and Davinci. I use GIMP sometimes when I need an effect that only GIMP has, so I move pics between software alot. GIMP is way behind: it needs that update.
I've used GIMP for years as a total amateur casual. I'm learning a lot of tricks in the first few minutes to just simply set the program up so thanks for that. One of the only things I had changed before was adding a keyboard shortcut to "Paste as new layer".
By the way, the small text messages at the bottom of the main window informs you how to use the tools.. just read it and it will give you the necessary steps and modifier keys.
Gimp is really hard to use for someone not familiar with it - just like Photoshop. Of course, it is much more robust, many things don't work as nice as we would wish... but it more or less works and anyone can do some quick fixes without paying a lot for photoshop (which would be hard to use, too). It's great that it exists and it works amazingly well for such a complicated free software.
Its not intuitive -- you are probably a programmer and it took you at least 1 year of previous computer experience and you already had scripting under your belt and thinking like a functional programmer. I learned Photoshop at 9 years old within 10 minutes of mousing around. I started using GIMP during college after I had 10 years of computer science and programming in PASCAL, C, C++, PHP, and perl; it took me a week to do (advance) things in GIMP while it took me 30 minutes in Photoshop when I was 9. GIMP is a good tool, but the UI needs a serious update. These days I use Photoshop, and Krita on the desktop.
Watching this video reaffirms my belief that the UX design of GIMP could be improved so much more. I do appreciate GIMP for being able to export .ico files, but I would love it if the developers accept suggestions for UX changes.
When Tantacrul is done with MuseScore he should do GIMP next. We just have to force him to use it for a while, and he will suddenly become the product manager, and fix everything.
We have now dynamic filters! I’ve wanted these for ages and they’re coming to GIMP 3! Though I still agree that Gimp, as a lot of free and libre software, has a lot of UX issues. It’s sad that there aren’t more UX designers in open source projects. Blender being a notable exception of course, it had the most legendary glow up the open source community has ever seen.
I like many aspexts of the ablender UI to the point where I'm wondering why it isn't available for use by other applications. The UI of GIMP has been split off and has become Gnome. (And as an advanced user I'm less and less happy with Gnome. Massive understatement.)
@@antonisauren8998the change happened in increment with 2 major changes one from blender 2.49 to 2.5 and another to the blender 2.79 to 2.8. Both were huge changes and this last one was sadly the one that killed the game engine.
I think it's great to see other RUclipsrs testing out GIMP and providing feedback. It's definitely quirky software, especially if you've used Photoshop your whole working life, but it's still pretty great and is only going to get better from here on out. Also, it looks like you're using GIMP 2.10.38 - GIMP 3.0 is about to come out and add some of the missing features you mentioned in the video (incl. non-destructive editing). 👍
used gimp for all my photoshop need back in middle school, but when i had to suddenly learn a encyclopedia full of keyboard shortcuts for the smallest things i would do with just a mouse click, i switched to Krita. Like really, if you need a cheatsheet next to you to zoom or recenter, fill select, switch layers etc than you know the program got too complex under the hood.
So true. Many people keep pushing the use of shortcut keys as they speed up your work flow. That may be true if the only piece of software you use is regularly i:. say Photoshop. Sure you can soon remember the most used keys. But, in my case, I use about 9 main programs. No way am I going to be able to remember which key(s) do what in what program. Sure I remember a few of the most used commands in each, but, most of the time, it's easier to go to the Menu/or icon.
I'm glad you mentioned Krita. That software is FAR more intuitive (it can draw circles normally!) than GIMP, and for HDR work it actually surpasses GIMP (and many other editors that can't even do scene-referred work at all).
"got too complex under the hood." No, it a sign of a poor UX/UI and no commitment within the Dev Team to prioritize these items in the dev schedule. Which, sadly, happens a great deal of Open Source projects. I know I'm going to get dumped on for this comment and portrayed as an OSS bigot, but I've been using OSS software since the mid to late 80s. I'm a fan of well designed software that has a good UX/UI. GIMP is not one of those.
@ yea.. wouldn’t consider GIMP OSS anymore as barely any PR get added and what they add is pretty much only aimed at Photoshop users that don’t want to pay for a subscription.
@@cidercreekranch No, you're right. Good UI/UX is AS important, if not more important, than the function of the program. You can have all the functionality in the world, but if people don't know how to access that functionality, it might as well not exist. A good UI can present the functions of the program, and can expose unique, complex interactions between various functions, in an intuitive, easy to use way. It's the reason why people don't like using command lines.
I never used Photoshop, so when I started using GIMP I had no preconceived ideas on how an image manipulation program should work. Even though I've used it for basic images for a few years now and have a good overall basic grasp of it, I really enjoy videos like this, as it shows me ways of doing things I'd never considered before.
I have Gimp, Photoshop, Affinity, and Krita, and I always go back to Gimp, even in professional applications. The interface is better and more intuitive, the menus are more organized, and there is no AI bloat. Trying to do the same things in Photoshop takes me ages longer, and even in a workstation, Photoshop frequently crashes for me, even trying to do relatively simple things.
I am also a huge fan of GIMP and Inkscape over Photoshop and Illustrator. I use Linux as my daily driver, so it was the obvious choice for me and theres never been anything I can't do in GIMP/Inkscape. If there is, I just write a Python script to do it myself instead of paying for a subscription.
Same here - DTP and everything GIMP (and yeah you just send your monitor RGB profile along your images / pdf's to the printing shop - no need to send them CMYC) ...
I can see this if you started with GIMP early on, but coming from starting on Photoshop(Version 7 I believe it was), it’s incredibly difficult to reroute your memory muscle, and it also looks like the UI was designed back when Windows XP was still the current OS. I know some people love the old UI, simply for nostalgia reasons, but I think even photoshop is a bit behind in that area. Also, there’s just a ton of workarounds you have to do that take like 2 seconds to do in Photoshop vs in GIMO, just like the layers and drop shadow text issue he showed in he video. However, considering Adobe’s god awful subscription systems and tier pricing, and more outrages to me personally, it’s recent inclusion of the “AI” bullshit, which is basically just a collection of millions of artists stolen work put into commercially bankrupt corporate tooling for people with zero talent…I’d take anything over an Adobe product these days.
The thing is, developing a drawing program is quite difficult, especially with little to no funding. Things like UX is just not the highest priority, compared to functionality and stability. Not to say that gimp itself is very featureful, although I find it quite performant and stable, especially compared to photoshop.
Yes gimp might look complicated,old and absolutely outdated at first glance; but once you get used to it it's kind of like riding a riding a manual car: you go fast and know the tools automatically. I personally like the fact the interface stays the same each year because like that you don't have to keep learning how to use new tools and features (that instead sometimes happens with Photoshop).Yes I know it might take 120 steps just to curve a text around a circle,but once you get used to using gimp it all just gets automatic. Last of all I think the fact you can literally run it even on grandma's shitbox without much lag is really nice,and the fact that it doesn't ask you to connect to the internet every now and then to check if you're paying you monthly load of cash to Adobe.
"Yes I know it might take 120 steps just to curve a text around a circle" Bitmap editors aren't designed for this task. It's amazing if you can do it at all.
Okay, so what you were doing with the text, is you wanted two layers. Putting the effects on the original layer applies it to that layer. What you could do is duplicate the text layer, make the second layer transparent, but apply the drop shadow effect to it. This is similar to the legacy option, only you can then get a preview to it. You can still edit the text layer. In your image, you can have multiple layers which aren't switched on, so what I do when I am working is I have a number of inactive layers for where I do my critical blocking of the image. Duplicate those layers into something tangible. As for GIMP, it's open source, so if there is anything people say the program cannot do, your more then welcome to join and become a contributor, upload code commits and see if the community want to adopt it. This is what is great about open source, and most the people who work on paid projects like Photoshop would contribute code to a program like this. I mean, there are very good reasons to pay for proprietary software, if you want to work at the cutting edge, you will pay. I pay for JetBrains, big cash. I slammed my fist down on the table and said that I want this software. We all have software we will pay for because we know this is how we will make our money. The great thing is that a lot of these tools are good for newbies, they require dedication to learn. A true sandbox.
Lack of dynamic layers - your example with shadows or also letters contours and other effects was the main reason i prefered to use very Old PS CS1 instead of gimp (which i loved Anyway) 8years ago. Also lack of proper CMYK support/conversion was alo another reason. And the fact that after all these years they still havent been able to implement these features proove that gimp is still not a serious graphic app.
long time gimp user and I never even knew about these tricks and I've used it professionally. That layer and tool trick helps a lot since I have always had a grudge with it since the beginning. Thanks you have my subscription! I should really play around with Gimps extras because I have been using it like it's Photoshop Elements 4 because that's what I learned from.
I remember having trouble with Gimp as a kid. Now i'm grown up and i actually draw and animate as my job and I feel like Gimp is not any less frustrating to use.
As a non-graphics professional, with a high Jank tolerance, I use GIMP for all my graphics means. Since I have no investment in any specific tool, it works well enough for my needs. I wouldn't recommend it for someone who intends to make a living out of it, and you have to be able to deal with Jankman, but for a free tool, it's fantastic. And you don't have to deal with Adobe stealing your shit.
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There is a tool under the colors menu that's called "Color to alpha" Try that to remove the background. It's a great tool. Make a duplicate layer and a layer mask if parts of the image has the same color as the background. Adjustment layers will come in Gimp 3.0 and is available in 3.0RC2 which is the latest development version.
Deke! You are hilarious! Thank you for showing us GIMP! I found out about it from your Newsletter and subbed here instantly while laughing at your descriptions! You’ve been doing a great job for years bro bro!
Someone said that Gimp was mostly created for programmers with their own thought flow. That it can be used by graphic design artists seem to be an afterthought.
It helps to think like a functional programmer geek that is interacting with graphics via a terminal prompt; they're that special child that looks smart but is way behind the top nerds that know that UI is more important than feature set. Especially if you have to type out everything instead of mouse clicking. There's a good reason that the inventors of the mouse were government computer specialist so they could get jobs completed faster. So instead of typing [> goto pixel 400, 394 ] , a mouse could just move. GIMP designers are one step away from typing literal keyboard invocations.
9:00 This is where they really need a workflow designer. The feature is phenomenal. It should just be designed in a way where the most likely (or only) option becomes the default that doesn't require any further interaction. If you want something more specific/different, that might be something you select in the top bar... also it needs to tell you what you need to do, and what it is doing right now. The fact that it takes long is kind of a good thing, as that means it does not send your data to servers under questionable terms you unknowingly agreed to.
@@evertonshorts9376 Many laptops still have access to the numberpad layout via the Fn key. You will see the numberpad characters printed above certain letters on the keyboard, usually in a colored text (green or blue). Alternatively, a USB numpad addon is a good inexpensive choice. The numpad is pretty essential in the music program, Sibelius, so I keep an external USB one on hand for when I work on a laptop that may not have them natively.
@@leowribeiro Some people use the trackpad on their laptop. I guess you can still do it some way - Ctrl with plus/minus key, or double-tap with three fingers and drag, or pinch-zoom.
GIMP was never as powerful as Photoshop and never had so many plugins and extensions, but in most cases its functionality is more than enough. Definitely one of the best opensource graphic tools ever been made and the favorite one in my toolbox. I wish there was a native version for Android too (I mean alternative touchscreen friendly GUI using the same backend - running the standart GTK3 GUI via VNC client and messing with a mouse emulation is such a pain in the ass). Any advices for GIMP-like redactor for Android are very welcome.
I'm glad i saw this. I've used Photoshop for years and have wrestled unsuccessfully with Gimp. I still need to use it so at least it isn't a total mystery. I know the Gimp guys have to be a little different from Photoshop but EVERYTHING?!!!
My go to, when GIMP turned out to be just nuts, was Paintshop Pro. It's not free, but like 10 times less cost, or less, and can be thought of as Photoshop with 90% of the same features, nearly the same exact interface, and missing only the bleeding edge of new features (save when it isn't missing them). Only reason I even got a version of Photoshop was due to "missing features", which I knew would help solve sone problems which PS could do easy, but PSP would take extra steps to do, if at all, but the odds of finding a tutorial on how to do so was near impossible. Gimp, by comparison, would have taken a week just to figure out how to manage the same thing, despite kind of also having, at thst time, features PSP didn't. This is not really the case now, or at least to as great an extent. But, yeah, Photoshop prices, even before the, "Oh... you think you own it, not just rent it?", era of software products has imho, for anything but a professional company with money to burn, been close to criminal.
Love GIMP. The only one issue to me - that made lately black interface, with icons one needs to look for with microscope or pointing back space telescope!
When I came across with Affinity Photo through your channel and tried the trail version and on this black Friday, I purchased the whole suit. I was regretted too much that I just wasted time with GIMP and Photoshop.
Gimp is amazing software, has been giving pro editing capabilities to people for free for many years. The upcoming 3.0 version is gonna be even better. Fair enough, it's got a funny name, open source is not there to impress managers and suit and tie people, so...
I use GIMP on an almost daily basis since 2011, both windows and linux versions. Add the batch image manipulator plugin and some addons and you will have an image processing powerhouse
I used Photoshop in 2000s, then didn't do much with graphics for some years, but when I needed to recently, and didn't want to return to the "open seas", I tried gimp, but everything was very slow, so different it was. Then I discovered Krita, and muscle memory kicked in. I even found a bug, filed a report, and a bug was fixed. Love Krita.
@ 15:04 I have not tried it but I know some software that had similar restrictions on drop shadow. Here is a workaround that MAY work. 1 - duplicate text layer (never work on original data in new apps - ever) 2 - select lower of two text layers 3 - change color of text to color of shadow you want 4 - nudge it down and to the side so that shadow effect is getting closer to what you want 5 - add blur effects and/or layer effects to get effect what your imagination hoped 6 - repeat steps 2 to 5 until your creativity is satisfied I hope it works in Gimp
I've been using GIMP for ages and ages. It's really all I know. You can make it do some incredible stuff once you get past the interface. Back in OS 10.6 days you could use quartz filters to convert to CMYK. I don't know if you can still do something similar on a Mac, but it was a nice to trick to learn. I used it in print advertising for ages and no one was the wiser.
I'm not a professional, I just goof around on GIMP making dumb memes and stuff. I did learn some helpful things on this video so thanks! One thing about the Navigation pane on the left. Underneath the window are six small icons. Hover your mouse over them to see what they do: zoom out zoom in zoom 1:1 zoom to fully visible zoom to entire window
I have used GIMP for years. My major gripe is the whole application has the early 2000s "this application is obviously open source and is developed by programmers" feel to it. The UI, feel, processes for using tools (foreground select), everything just feels bad and unnatural. Yes I'm USED to it, but having used other tools here and there, it is not easy to use, intuitive, or fast (both in process and program speed).
Really good "intro", and some things that I haven't thought about in 25 years of using it! Just the idea of going to the "view" menu... Thx from 🇨🇦 in 🇩🇪
The reason the shortcuts seem weird to Photoshop users is that Photoshop is wrong and their minds have been poisoned! I've used GIMP since v2.2 in 2004. I'm trying to like Affinity but not really feeling it yet.
Damn that first sentence reads like right wing propaganda o.o Sure you are used to software X and it seems weird cause they are designed in a different way but gimp just needs just too many clicks and actions to do just one thing compared to other image tools
Paint Shop Pro is still around, and it now has a lot of AI features that Affinity Photo still lacks. But Affinity Photo's support for non-destructive editing is much better. Maybe even better than Photoshop.
@@sinz52 AI doesn't interest me in the slightest. It's for people with no talent. I learned to develop film when I was 14, in 1976. I had a darkroom for many years up until 2010. I got on OK without AI.
Gimp has taken just close to 30 years to develop so don't talk rubbish. I use both Gimp and PS and both can do the same thing. How many programs have you developed?
I don't care! It does 95% of what I need, and I dropped PS as soon as it went to subscription, and bought Affinity, and upgrade to 2.x, but GIMP seems to be my go-to, because it works ok, and doesn't need a monster learning curve. UI could be different, maybe "better", but if everyone contributed just one month of PS subscription cost, imagine the amount of love GIMP could get!!
@@johnrobinson1020 They are not wrong, though photoshop may have similar issues. My first few weeks of using gimp to try to do a project i was working on were torture. I hated it so much. Now i use it every now and then and i know better how to search the web to give me details on how to do things in gimp, but i could have choked the makers when i first started.
@@johnrobinson1020 honestly that's sorta the point, 30 years of gradual development from contributors makes it hard to design and enforce a unified UI/UX, even if you have dedicated interface designers taking part (which I'm not sure they do, I don't see anyone credited for it). It would be a lot of work even if they were there from the beginning - so overhauling the existing application and all the different bits that have been bolted to it over the years would be a huge undertaking It's not a criticism, just the reality - they don't have the resources to do that kind of thing, and it does explain a lot of the awkward stuff. It's a solid program and a fantastic resource but the experience could definitely be improved, hopefully 3.0 has let them start fresh in a few ways (and fixed the dang tiny icons, no not those ones)
If you are using a keyboard with a numbers pad, you can use the '+' key on the pad without needing to hit the Shift key. It's more an idiosyncracy of how the computer reads keyboard signals.
GIMP is hard to use and used to be more like Photoshop but now operates every way opposite of Photoshop. I tried to do a simple crop in GIMP, once, and it took me way too long to get what I wanted than would have happened in Photoshop.
Gimp to me when I'm on Linux is like a replacement for MS Paint on Windows. I don't daily drive with it, but if I need to do a quick tweak to a picture or setup something to print I use Gimp to do it. For everything else, it's Krita natively and Clip Studio Paint in Wine.
You are obviously not overly familiar with Gimp. The method you described to create a drop shadow is too complex, There is a straightforward way to do that. Your computer must be very slow if you are expecting it to take a few minutes to render the selected image using the foreground select tool. This takes a matter of seconds on my PC using Windows. Sizing control buttons etc is easy through Edit Preferences and, of course, is all personal choice to sizes of icons and shortcut keys you want to configure etc. I like my icons and text medium-sized and that suits me fine, you can also select to have the tools panel with colour icons similar to Photo Shop. Gimp 3.01 is now available and has many new features. But overall your video is good and informative for someone who is familiar with Gimp but would be a little daunting for a newcomer to photo editing. Gimp does have a rather steep learning curve but that is due to it having so many functions, even I who have been using Gimp for many years find new features that I didn't realize existed. Gimp is capable of doing most things that Photo Shop can do and Photo Shop is capable of doing most things that Gimp can do. I was an avid user of Photoshop until it became subscription only and you can no longer own a copy, this all comes down to greed, so I simply refuse to use Photo Shop.Thankfully, Gimp exists and is absolutley free and is truly Photo Shops biggest rival and competitor.
@@thomasmaughan4798 I have both applications and I don't find Photoshop more difficult to learn. Both are great and do the same thing for me albeit using different methods to achieve a similar result. I am annoyed with Photoshop for not letting users purchase the software any longer. I guess the subscription model suits some users but the option to purchase outright should still be available.
Absolutely Brilliant and thanks. I'm neither a Gimp or Adobe user but want to soon play around with Gimp. Damn though you gave me a headache with all the stuff. 👍👍
I have never used Photoshop. I've tried to use GIMP in the past and found it to be a confusing a mess. The first thing I tried to do as a test was just to draw a solid color freehand line. That took me 20-30 minutes to figure out how to do because GIMP was in some kind of painting mode or something. Then I tried to figure out how to simply copy a portion of the image and stamp it down somewhere else. I forget if I ever figured out how to do this without it trying to blend the copy and make it partially transparent. As I recall, GIMP has a descreening option for scanned images. I had a scanned image that I wanted to use it on, but only on part of the image. I only wanted to use it on the image in the center of the page, but not the rest of the page, which already looked fine. I couldn't figure out how to properly outline the section I wanted to process. Automatic selection didn't work, as it also selected the text that the image was touching. If I zoomed out enough to see the entire image, I couldn't accurately follow the irregular edges of the image by freehand. If I zoomed in, I could follow the edges better, but then I could only outline a portion of the image. In the end I gave up.
I use GIMP for like 10 years. I used photoshop back then, before. Im not pro. I just do like photography, retouched some for myself and did some pics for products sold by companies on ebay, and other online marketplaces. What I really miss from Photoshop is magic wand, that helped a lot. There is no such thing in GIMP. But I need to learn pro functions of it. Because magic wand is non-pro. What a joy to watch real pro on youtube in the sea of millions of absolute crap videos! Subscribed.
@dekeNow I watched it. I see the functions of fast selecting of needed area of image works in a pro-way, you need to do not so many clicks to obtain very good result. I need to learn it.
I create art and put it in production from business cards to billboards to stone monuments to interior signage of all kinds. We do everything from traffic signs to bronze statues to post cards. For over 30 years I have used all the applications for these things and my swiss army knife is CorelDraw Graphics Suite and I prefer ver X8. I work everything full scale up to 150 feet. For speed and total control of output both vector and raster I have seen no equal. I output machine ready .dxf for CNC operations and print ready files for large or grandformat printers of various kinds in the same application. If I use Inkscape/GIMP or Krita it is for file processing workaround or something but if I had to use them I for production I could but it would suck. If I had to use Adobe products I would just quit.
One of the first things I was taught in school was the old aphorism, "you get what you pay for". It was presented as truth, and I have never known it to fail.
I was very reluctant to watch this, because I expected it to be yet another "gimp sucks" video. And while you're not sparing the well justified criticism, you're showing how it can be used. Thumbs up, from me! :)
Fun fact: if you learn to use shortcuts properly then GIMP is a VERY powerful tool. It still has some serious design flaws, but it's more than capable as main tool for design elements.
Yes. SANE, XSANE and xscanimage can work in GIMP for acquisition. I won't deny though, in the end I often just batch scan and then post-process in GIMP rather than going via GIMP directly.
This is very interesting, I would love to ditch Photoshop, but it does quick amazing things that I haven't yet learnt to do in other prg. After years of hearing about Gimp, it might be time for me to learn it ! :) Thanks a lot for the introduction!
Yeah, it's best to give big corpo Adobe full control of my content so that they can train the AI that will do my work pretty soon. Oh, I forgot to mention the "you'll own nothing and be happy" future that Adobe loves.
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The last version of Photoshop that I used was version 7 on Windows XP. I switched to GIMP and haven't looked back. Mostly because I hate Abobe's subscription model. I absolutely hate the direction tech companies have been going in the past decade. Planned obsolesces, dumbing down, subscriptions, telemetry, etc. I want to go back in time...
that is my story too.
Photoshop CS6 was the last one purchaseable but i keep CS2 around for reasons that they patched out the license server check and they can't take that one away.
Used Photoshop CS5, was disgusted by the new Adobe subscription model, tried Gimp a few days, was disgusted by the software, uninstalled it and hacked Photoshop instead.
Today I'm no more a broke student so I am a very happy user of Affinity Photo.
Why not just download PS from torrents?
I bought a used copy of CS3 and then used the s/n to download the version that doesn't care about the authorisation server. It means I'm stuck with OS 10.9.5 forever but computers are so cheap now I just use different machines for different tasks.
I transitioned from Microsoft Windows to Linux in 2009-2010, taught myself to use GIMP and Inkscape, and have never looked back. Both are available for $0.00 and allow me to do everything that I need to do, including commercial work, photo restoration, and Web site design, and maintenance.
That is how it worked for me too. More to say. Im gratefull to community and Im ready to pay for GIMP.
10€ month for photophobia plus lightroom for someone who earns mo eyes with it, it's not even comparable
Inkscape is a GEM.
But feel free to donate for your favourite free open source project. Christmas is a good time to support brilliant communities.
@@hammerheadcorvette4 1000% this! Inkscape is an awesome tool I use it for so many things. Display, web, and print graphics; wed site design; 3D printing and CNC milling.
Great thing about GIMP is that it allows the ferociously interested young minds who have not touched Photoshop but love to tinker with images a path to get involved in imaginative editing. I have no use for it, but watched the whole presentation just for the calming effect of Deke's voice ;) It's a noble thing you do for learners Deke, extending yourself out into the wilderness like this, with all the same grace & style and subtle comedy of a Photoshop tutorial.
Just use photopea
I do love him but I knew I need the tutorial just to make it a little bit more useable
"ferociously interested young minds"
The kind of misuse of adjectives we'd expect from a gimpster, who uses a program that requires tutorials on how to perform the most mundane actions.
@@alphaforce6998 Photoshop has relied on decades worth of these kinds of tutorials on YT and in books before that. Adobes UI is not any more intuitive its just been accepted for longer.
Who can afford photoshop these days, you would have to mow a lot of lawns a month to pay the subscription fees.
I used to teach photoshop but photoshop would not allow an education version at the time. As I don't teach students to pirate software I moved to GIMP. 10 years later I am a total open source convert. I love GIMP and also Blender, Inkscape, Darktable and Audacity. I note that if text has been rasterized and you want to edit mostly you just select text icon and click on rasterized text it will remove shadow and edit text. Then put drop shadow back on. Thanks for video
Hi, I'm an indie game developer and I'm looking for a simple free program with which I can edit TGA images.
Do you know a progam that is not so complicate like GIMP and IS commercialy free to use ?
Thx for the info, and my pleasure!
@@paluxyl.8682 There’s lot out there. But GIMP shoots high, and given some time, is not all that difficult to use.
@@dekeNow I have installed many years ago many times GIMP and it was almost an overkill. And if I remember correct was it over 1GB big.
Later was Photofiltre my favorite free program, but only for private projects.
@@paluxyl.8682 I don't know about editing TGA, but you might consider Krita.
GIMP 3.0 RC is available for download already. "Adjustment layers" included.
You should include full disclosure that it's actually NOT ready.
From the site: "So, what exactly is a “release candidate” (RC)? A release candidate is something that might be ready to be GIMP 3.0, but we want the larger community to test it first and report any problems they find."
@@johnsmith1474 I wouldn't want to scare away newcomers, the RC disclaimer is hard to miss on the site. GIMP 3.0 can use the exposure.
No updates can save GIMP unless it's a complete rebuild from scratch.
@@braddavis5802 A lot of it has been rebuilt from scratch. It has its flaws and it has its strengths. I've been using GIMP to edit photos and even for photo manipulation for at least 15 years now and it has gotten better over the years but compared to, say, Affinity Photo or Photoshop it is not even close.
But it is still capable, even now using the 2.x variety it is very capable. On top of it all it is free, unlike Affinity Photo and Photoshop.
@@braddavis5802 It's like 20 years behind Photoshop or even Affinity.
Photopea is also free and is almost to the level of Photoshop, being pretty much a clone of it. And yeah, available literally on everything since it runs in a browser.
Absolutely no reason to bother with GIMP.
Around 12 years ago I created a music video for a singer only using Gimp and Final Cut. I had to crea snow for a scene that was recorded in front of a Green Screen. I've been using Gimp for more than 15 years now and I'm not planning to switch to other Pic Editors anytime soon.
Tiny icons by default must be a Windows thing. Here in Unix/BSD/Linux land, we have desktop environments that allow for custom auto-scaling for high-res displays -- makes life instantly easy by default.
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GIMP is amazing and when I need help, there are so many people who freely share their expertise. It's a great community and I'm a huge fan.
I have been using GIMP for 15+ years and very happily too. Can't wait for v3.0 to be released after the RC has been tested.
GIMP rocked my world since 2003-ish. Grokking the GIMP was the best tutorial ever and likely still valid today in terms of the concepts.
Are the tools clunky? Yes. But it's also a strong point in that things don't jump around and change all the time. It's doing what I expect from it and with some patience I can create a masterpiece.
Stuff all the other exuberantly expensive software out there.
I had little faith in free software that competed with the 'big boys'.. Fortunately, every one of them are absolutely incredible for a completely free product. I use Blender, Audacity and Gimp/Inkscape.. I've used them for over a Decade now. I use to use Pro Tools and Photoshop. After trying these, I've never had a second thought about it... Harder? No! Things are just set up different. It's ALL there and nothing is 'harder'.
Have to say, I expected GIMP to be harder than it is. Mostly earnest and promising.
If you need to go further than Audacity, Reaper is a good choice. It's not entirely free (although you can use it with the startup nag indefinitely), but is a very reasonably priced DAW compared to the other "big boy" offerings. It has been called "The Linux of DAWS".
I'm using GIMP since the late '00s. Nobody will tell me it's a bad program. It's like saying WordPad is bad. Sure, it's not Word, but WordPad has it's uses. And in fact, I use WordPad, LibreOffice Writer *and* Word for different things. Writer less so today. And I use GIMP regularly and it's more than enough for free. People who are mocking GIMP for not being Photoshop level are clown. They are suckers who pay for what I can have for free, just because it's a little more convenient here and there (and they probably doesn't even use Photoshop to the full potential anyway). And he fact that Photoshop cost around $20 monthly is ridiculous. $20 monthly? I would say it would be fair price if it was lifetime license. But monthly? People either want to brag they are rich or they are just suckers that pay that much for something they could have for free. Or both.
I used GIMP for several years before switching to Affinity Photo. GIMP was a very capable program, but for me Affinity represented a more user friendly package at a very reasonable price. I haven't tried GIMP again since switching to Affinity, so I'm not sure how much it's improved.
It's totally a GIMP thing. No other software has issues like that on Windows. Only this FOSS garbage.
Also, although not a 1:1 replacement, Krita is a good alternative to GIMP. Which one is more suitable for someone is hard to say; just take them both out for a spin and make your own opinion.
This comment is way too far down.
Isn't krita more into drawing than image editing?
@@midoevil7 Drawing/painting is the main focus of Krita, but it's a very capable program in a lot of ways. It got a lot of features before Gimp, like color management or HDR, that are very much necessary in editing. I can't think of anything that Gimp has that Krita doesn't (I can easily think of things that Krita has that Gimp hasn't, but most are for drawing and animation).
And whatever Krita might be missing right now, the chances that it's gonna get it sooner or later are high, the development work they got going is great. You can't say the same about Gimp, which sadly stagnated a long time ago.
I still like Gimp, but since I switched, I never missed anything.
In any case, they can both use the same files, so you can switch from one to the other.
The one major pain point (but they're getting better at it), is still text. Krita is weird and buggy about it, but you can still work with it.
Krita is way better than Gimp.
I'm a Gimp, Blender, Photoshop, 3DS, solidworks, and other commercial video multimedia stuff professional.
My daily driver is Kali Linux, but when I use Microsoft and Mac (which is everyday for about 3 hours) then I use Photoshop and adobe stuff and Davinci.
I use GIMP sometimes when I need an effect that only GIMP has, so I move pics between software alot.
GIMP is way behind: it needs that update.
Krita is absolutely the better choice, at least IMO
I've used GIMP for years as a total amateur casual. I'm learning a lot of tricks in the first few minutes to just simply set the program up so thanks for that.
One of the only things I had changed before was adding a keyboard shortcut to "Paste as new layer".
By the way, the small text messages at the bottom of the main window informs you how to use the tools.. just read it and it will give you the necessary steps and modifier keys.
Gimp is really hard to use for someone not familiar with it - just like Photoshop. Of course, it is much more robust, many things don't work as nice as we would wish... but it more or less works and anyone can do some quick fixes without paying a lot for photoshop (which would be hard to use, too).
It's great that it exists and it works amazingly well for such a complicated free software.
I started using Gimp 15-20 years ago. For me, it's intuitive and Photoshop is odd.
lol same
It's because you haven't been shackled by proprietary software.
Its not intuitive -- you are probably a programmer and it took you at least 1 year of previous computer experience and you already had scripting under your belt and thinking like a functional programmer. I learned Photoshop at 9 years old within 10 minutes of mousing around.
I started using GIMP during college after I had 10 years of computer science and programming in PASCAL, C, C++, PHP, and perl; it took me a week to do (advance) things in GIMP while it took me 30 minutes in Photoshop when I was 9. GIMP is a good tool, but the UI needs a serious update.
These days I use Photoshop, and Krita on the desktop.
Watching this video reaffirms my belief that the UX design of GIMP could be improved so much more. I do appreciate GIMP for being able to export .ico files, but I would love it if the developers accept suggestions for UX changes.
When Tantacrul is done with MuseScore he should do GIMP next.
We just have to force him to use it for a while, and he will suddenly become the product manager, and fix everything.
We have now dynamic filters! I’ve wanted these for ages and they’re coming to GIMP 3! Though I still agree that Gimp, as a lot of free and libre software, has a lot of UX issues. It’s sad that there aren’t more UX designers in open source projects. Blender being a notable exception of course, it had the most legendary glow up the open source community has ever seen.
I like many aspexts of the ablender UI to the point where I'm wondering why it isn't available for use by other applications.
The UI of GIMP has been split off and has become Gnome.
(And as an advanced user I'm less and less happy with Gnome. Massive understatement.)
When I dig up some old pre 2.8 blender tutorials and have no issues following, I notice that UI change wasn't that radical.
@@antonisauren8998 it goes to show that people heavily judge the software by its looks.
@@antonisauren8998the change happened in increment with 2 major changes one from blender 2.49 to 2.5 and another to the blender 2.79 to 2.8.
Both were huge changes and this last one was sadly the one that killed the game engine.
Blender on the other hand has an actual fixed big team that develops it and is paid
The GIMP is part of my image editing portfolio and has been for 20 years or more. It's fast, easy, does what I need it to do.
But not what I need it to do.
@@Squant "{But not what I need it to do."
Well there's a surprise ;-)
Some good tips. Thanks. Been using GIMP for years. It has way more features than I will ever need.
I think it's great to see other RUclipsrs testing out GIMP and providing feedback. It's definitely quirky software, especially if you've used Photoshop your whole working life, but it's still pretty great and is only going to get better from here on out. Also, it looks like you're using GIMP 2.10.38 - GIMP 3.0 is about to come out and add some of the missing features you mentioned in the video (incl. non-destructive editing). 👍
I haven't used photoshop in over 20 years lol, GIMP is all I've ever known, I have no idea if it's better....but I think it's great!
used gimp for all my photoshop need back in middle school, but when i had to suddenly learn a encyclopedia full of keyboard shortcuts for the smallest things i would do with just a mouse click, i switched to Krita.
Like really, if you need a cheatsheet next to you to zoom or recenter, fill select, switch layers etc than you know the program got too complex under the hood.
So true. Many people keep pushing the use of shortcut keys as they speed up your work flow. That may be true if the only piece of software you use is regularly i:. say Photoshop. Sure you can soon remember the most used keys. But, in my case, I use about 9 main programs. No way am I going to be able to remember which key(s) do what in what program. Sure I remember a few of the most used commands in each, but, most of the time, it's easier to go to the Menu/or icon.
I'm glad you mentioned Krita. That software is FAR more intuitive (it can draw circles normally!) than GIMP, and for HDR work it actually surpasses GIMP (and many other editors that can't even do scene-referred work at all).
"got too complex under the hood." No, it a sign of a poor UX/UI and no commitment within the Dev Team to prioritize these items in the dev schedule. Which, sadly, happens a great deal of Open Source projects. I know I'm going to get dumped on for this comment and portrayed as an OSS bigot, but I've been using OSS software since the mid to late 80s. I'm a fan of well designed software that has a good UX/UI. GIMP is not one of those.
@ yea.. wouldn’t consider GIMP OSS anymore as barely any PR get added and what they add is pretty much only aimed at Photoshop users that don’t want to pay for a subscription.
@@cidercreekranch No, you're right. Good UI/UX is AS important, if not more important, than the function of the program. You can have all the functionality in the world, but if people don't know how to access that functionality, it might as well not exist. A good UI can present the functions of the program, and can expose unique, complex interactions between various functions, in an intuitive, easy to use way. It's the reason why people don't like using command lines.
I actually prefer the interfaces of both MS PowerPoint and GIMP to those of Adobe Photoshop, Affinity Photo/Designer, Krita, etc. To each his own.
I never used Photoshop, so when I started using GIMP I had no preconceived ideas on how an image manipulation program should work. Even though I've used it for basic images for a few years now and have a good overall basic grasp of it, I really enjoy videos like this, as it shows me ways of doing things I'd never considered before.
I have Gimp, Photoshop, Affinity, and Krita, and I always go back to Gimp, even in professional applications. The interface is better and more intuitive, the menus are more organized, and there is no AI bloat. Trying to do the same things in Photoshop takes me ages longer, and even in a workstation, Photoshop frequently crashes for me, even trying to do relatively simple things.
I am also a huge fan of GIMP and Inkscape over Photoshop and Illustrator. I use Linux as my daily driver, so it was the obvious choice for me and theres never been anything I can't do in GIMP/Inkscape. If there is, I just write a Python script to do it myself instead of paying for a subscription.
Same here - DTP and everything GIMP (and yeah you just send your monitor RGB profile along your images / pdf's to the printing shop - no need to send them CMYC) ...
I can see this if you started with GIMP early on, but coming from starting on Photoshop(Version 7 I believe it was), it’s incredibly difficult to reroute your memory muscle, and it also looks like the UI was designed back when Windows XP was still the current OS. I know some people love the old UI, simply for nostalgia reasons, but I think even photoshop is a bit behind in that area.
Also, there’s just a ton of workarounds you have to do that take like 2 seconds to do in Photoshop vs in GIMO, just like the layers and drop shadow text issue he showed in he video.
However, considering Adobe’s god awful subscription systems and tier pricing, and more outrages to me personally, it’s recent inclusion of the “AI” bullshit, which is basically just a collection of millions of artists stolen work put into commercially bankrupt corporate tooling for people with zero talent…I’d take anything over an Adobe product these days.
No using real software has rotted your brain. I respect the software but the UI is terrible.
The thing is, developing a drawing program is quite difficult, especially with little to no funding. Things like UX is just not the highest priority, compared to functionality and stability. Not to say that gimp itself is very featureful, although I find it quite performant and stable, especially compared to photoshop.
This was by far the best GIMP tutorial I've seen (and I've been using GIMP on and off for years). Many thanks.
Yes gimp might look complicated,old and absolutely outdated at first glance; but once you get used to it it's kind of like riding a riding a manual car: you go fast and know the tools automatically. I personally like the fact the interface stays the same each year because like that you don't have to keep learning how to use new tools and features (that instead sometimes happens with Photoshop).Yes I know it might take 120 steps just to curve a text around a circle,but once you get used to using gimp it all just gets automatic. Last of all I think the fact you can literally run it even on grandma's shitbox without much lag is really nice,and the fact that it doesn't ask you to connect to the internet every now and then to check if you're paying you monthly load of cash to Adobe.
"Yes I know it might take 120 steps just to curve a text around a circle"
Bitmap editors aren't designed for this task. It's amazing if you can do it at all.
These are some good points!
Okay, so what you were doing with the text, is you wanted two layers. Putting the effects on the original layer applies it to that layer. What you could do is duplicate the text layer, make the second layer transparent, but apply the drop shadow effect to it. This is similar to the legacy option, only you can then get a preview to it. You can still edit the text layer.
In your image, you can have multiple layers which aren't switched on, so what I do when I am working is I have a number of inactive layers for where I do my critical blocking of the image. Duplicate those layers into something tangible.
As for GIMP, it's open source, so if there is anything people say the program cannot do, your more then welcome to join and become a contributor, upload code commits and see if the community want to adopt it. This is what is great about open source, and most the people who work on paid projects like Photoshop would contribute code to a program like this. I mean, there are very good reasons to pay for proprietary software, if you want to work at the cutting edge, you will pay. I pay for JetBrains, big cash. I slammed my fist down on the table and said that I want this software. We all have software we will pay for because we know this is how we will make our money.
The great thing is that a lot of these tools are good for newbies, they require dedication to learn. A true sandbox.
That is one heck of a workaround. But all points taken.
Gimp is respected and king in its own sphere. It's my first program. But I saw your Affinity photo tutorial and shifted, but I will never delete GIMP.
Yes you will. For the record in what sphere is GIMP King?
"Respected", are you sure?
At the intersection of free and usable mostly that's where it came blender is free and oh my God I need the college course
Oh, cool-good news!
Lack of dynamic layers - your example with shadows or also letters contours and other effects was the main reason i prefered to use very Old PS CS1 instead of gimp (which i loved Anyway) 8years ago. Also lack of proper CMYK support/conversion was alo another reason. And the fact that after all these years they still havent been able to implement these features proove that gimp is still not a serious graphic app.
If I'm not mistaken the last version, 3.0 RC, has most of your issues solved.
long time gimp user and I never even knew about these tricks and I've used it professionally. That layer and tool trick helps a lot since I have always had a grudge with it since the beginning. Thanks you have my subscription! I should really play around with Gimps extras because I have been using it like it's Photoshop Elements 4 because that's what I learned from.
I remember having trouble with Gimp as a kid. Now i'm grown up and i actually draw and animate as my job and I feel like Gimp is not any less frustrating to use.
Thank you for the tutorial. It was very useful and easy to fallow. Well done, my friend.
That was a very good and honest quick review of gimp. I'll have to share this with some beginners
As a non-graphics professional, with a high Jank tolerance, I use GIMP for all my graphics means. Since I have no investment in any specific tool, it works well enough for my needs.
I wouldn't recommend it for someone who intends to make a living out of it, and you have to be able to deal with Jankman, but for a free tool, it's fantastic. And you don't have to deal with Adobe stealing your shit.
There is a tool under the colors menu that's called "Color to alpha" Try that to remove the background. It's a great tool. Make a duplicate layer and a layer mask if parts of the image has the same color as the background.
Adjustment layers will come in Gimp 3.0 and is available in 3.0RC2 which is the latest development version.
Deke! You are hilarious! Thank you for showing us GIMP! I found out about it from your Newsletter and subbed here instantly while laughing at your descriptions! You’ve been doing a great job for years bro bro!
Thank you!!
I just installed Gimp again a couple days ago, so thanks for the bit about the icon sizes--it was driving me up a wall.
you can also zoom with the scroll wheel
Someone said that Gimp was mostly created for programmers with their own thought flow. That it can be used by graphic design artists seem to be an afterthought.
There are days when the same can be said of Photoshop. 😂
It helps to think like a functional programmer geek that is interacting with graphics via a terminal prompt; they're that special child that looks smart but is way behind the top nerds that know that UI is more important than feature set. Especially if you have to type out everything instead of mouse clicking. There's a good reason that the inventors of the mouse were government computer specialist so they could get jobs completed faster. So instead of typing [> goto pixel 400, 394 ] , a mouse could just move. GIMP designers are one step away from typing literal keyboard invocations.
9:00 This is where they really need a workflow designer. The feature is phenomenal. It should just be designed in a way where the most likely (or only) option becomes the default that doesn't require any further interaction. If you want something more specific/different, that might be something you select in the top bar... also it needs to tell you what you need to do, and what it is doing right now. The fact that it takes long is kind of a good thing, as that means it does not send your data to servers under questionable terms you unknowingly agreed to.
I haven't used photoshop in so long - I forget what the pro's of using it are.
IIRC, you can use the numpad + and - keys with the zoom functionality as well.
You can, but he's probly using a laptop that hasn't got a one.
@@evertonshorts9376 Many laptops still have access to the numberpad layout via the Fn key. You will see the numberpad characters printed above certain letters on the keyboard, usually in a colored text (green or blue). Alternatively, a USB numpad addon is a good inexpensive choice. The numpad is pretty essential in the music program, Sibelius, so I keep an external USB one on hand for when I work on a laptop that may not have them natively.
Why not simply use CTRL + scroll wheel to zoom in and out?
@@leowribeiro Some people use the trackpad on their laptop. I guess you can still do it some way - Ctrl with plus/minus key, or double-tap with three fingers and drag, or pinch-zoom.
@@PracticaProphetica Fair enough, I guess I have a PC oriented thinking, Happy New Year!
GIMP was never as powerful as Photoshop and never had so many plugins and extensions, but in most cases its functionality is more than enough. Definitely one of the best opensource graphic tools ever been made and the favorite one in my toolbox. I wish there was a native version for Android too (I mean alternative touchscreen friendly GUI using the same backend - running the standart GTK3 GUI via VNC client and messing with a mouse emulation is such a pain in the ass).
Any advices for GIMP-like redactor for Android are very welcome.
After decades of development, the GIMP devs still haven't understood what an intuitive interface is.
I'm glad i saw this. I've used Photoshop for years and have wrestled unsuccessfully with Gimp. I still need to use it so at least it isn't a total mystery.
I know the Gimp guys have to be a little different from Photoshop but EVERYTHING?!!!
My go to, when GIMP turned out to be just nuts, was Paintshop Pro. It's not free, but like 10 times less cost, or less, and can be thought of as Photoshop with 90% of the same features, nearly the same exact interface, and missing only the bleeding edge of new features (save when it isn't missing them). Only reason I even got a version of Photoshop was due to "missing features", which I knew would help solve sone problems which PS could do easy, but PSP would take extra steps to do, if at all, but the odds of finding a tutorial on how to do so was near impossible. Gimp, by comparison, would have taken a week just to figure out how to manage the same thing, despite kind of also having, at thst time, features PSP didn't. This is not really the case now, or at least to as great an extent.
But, yeah, Photoshop prices, even before the, "Oh... you think you own it, not just rent it?", era of software products has imho, for anything but a professional company with money to burn, been close to criminal.
Love GIMP. The only one issue to me - that made lately black interface, with icons one needs to look for with microscope or pointing back space telescope!
When I came across with Affinity Photo through your channel and tried the trail version and on this black Friday, I purchased the whole suit. I was regretted too much that I just wasted time with GIMP and Photoshop.
Good old GIMP. Along with Animation Shop from Jasc, my early 2000s web page creations certainly had flair! 😂
Gimp is amazing software, has been giving pro editing capabilities to people for free for many years. The upcoming 3.0 version is gonna be even better. Fair enough, it's got a funny name, open source is not there to impress managers and suit and tie people, so...
I use GIMP on an almost daily basis since 2011, both windows and linux versions. Add the batch image manipulator plugin and some addons and you will have an image processing powerhouse
I used Photoshop in 2000s, then didn't do much with graphics for some years, but when I needed to recently, and didn't want to return to the "open seas", I tried gimp, but everything was very slow, so different it was. Then I discovered Krita, and muscle memory kicked in. I even found a bug, filed a report, and a bug was fixed. Love Krita.
Photoshop is incomprehensible, so I can’t imagine this one.
GIMP still Gimping along. As ever _the_ prime example of why you pair engineers with designers.
GIMP a puzzle based image manipulator
Graphical Image Manipulation Puzzle?
LOL! Great description. It's the only image I've ever used. I guess I like puzzles.
😂 Hey, if you like puzzles!
Gimp is A-MA-ZING! Period.
I agree, been using it for years😀
@ 15:04 I have not tried it but I know some software that had similar restrictions on drop shadow. Here is a workaround that MAY work.
1 - duplicate text layer (never work on original data in new apps - ever)
2 - select lower of two text layers
3 - change color of text to color of shadow you want
4 - nudge it down and to the side so that shadow effect is getting closer to what you want
5 - add blur effects and/or layer effects to get effect what your imagination hoped
6 - repeat steps 2 to 5 until your creativity is satisfied
I hope it works in Gimp
Thank you for your hard work I was finding GIMP hard to use and I did not have time or the patience to play around.
I've been using GIMP for ages and ages. It's really all I know. You can make it do some incredible stuff once you get past the interface. Back in OS 10.6 days you could use quartz filters to convert to CMYK. I don't know if you can still do something similar on a Mac, but it was a nice to trick to learn. I used it in print advertising for ages and no one was the wiser.
I never used Photoshop have always used Gimp since the early 2000s.
I've used gimp for years between jobs (when someone else paid for photoshop.) I've always loved it but knew maybe 20% of what you told me. Thanks :)
I'm not a professional, I just goof around on GIMP making dumb memes and stuff. I did learn some helpful things on this video so thanks!
One thing about the Navigation pane on the left. Underneath the window are six small icons. Hover your mouse over them to see what they do:
zoom out
zoom in
zoom 1:1
zoom to fully visible
zoom to entire window
Used Photoshop 4 from 1994 to Photoshop 7 in 2014 on Macs then moved to Linux and Gimp. Get the gMic filter set.
Never been happier. 😁
You can merge the text to the drop shadow if you wanted to further move it around.
I have used GIMP for years. My major gripe is the whole application has the early 2000s "this application is obviously open source and is developed by programmers" feel to it. The UI, feel, processes for using tools (foreground select), everything just feels bad and unnatural. Yes I'm USED to it, but having used other tools here and there, it is not easy to use, intuitive, or fast (both in process and program speed).
Really good "intro", and some things that I haven't thought about in 25 years of using it!
Just the idea of going to the "view" menu...
Thx from 🇨🇦 in 🇩🇪
My pleasure!
The reason the shortcuts seem weird to Photoshop users is that Photoshop is wrong and their minds have been poisoned! I've used GIMP since v2.2 in 2004. I'm trying to like Affinity but not really feeling it yet.
Damn that first sentence reads like right wing propaganda o.o
Sure you are used to software X and it seems weird cause they are designed in a different way but gimp just needs just too many clicks and actions to do just one thing compared to other image tools
GIMP works similar to how Paint Shop Pro worked. If I wasn't using a free version of Photoshop, I'd use it.
Is Paint Shop Pro still a thing? For modern PC's I mean. I used it a lot when God was a boy. Liked it.
@@Ralph2 Haven't used it since the days of Jasc. It is still around, as a Corel product now.
Paint Shop Pro is still around, and it now has a lot of AI features that Affinity Photo still lacks. But Affinity Photo's support for non-destructive editing is much better. Maybe even better than Photoshop.
@@sinz52 AI doesn't interest me in the slightest. It's for people with no talent. I learned to develop film when I was 14, in 1976. I had a darkroom for many years up until 2010. I got on OK without AI.
@@sinz52 Thank you.
I would love if you could test drive Krita for a day or two. I'm curious how does it hold up to Gimp / and obviously Photoshop
On my list!
Gimp’s UI/UX is the reason why photoshop lives.
I agree!
I find Gimp quite intuitive, but not Photoshop.
this is what happens when it's only devs working on this and no one is an actual artist to guide the ux and UI of it all
Gimp has taken just close to 30 years to develop so don't talk rubbish. I use both Gimp and PS and both can do the same thing. How many programs have you developed?
I don't care!
It does 95% of what I need, and I dropped PS as soon as it went to subscription, and bought Affinity, and upgrade to 2.x, but GIMP seems to be my go-to, because it works ok, and doesn't need a monster learning curve.
UI could be different, maybe "better", but if everyone contributed just one month of PS subscription cost, imagine the amount of love GIMP could get!!
@@johnrobinson1020 They are not wrong, though photoshop may have similar issues. My first few weeks of using gimp to try to do a project i was working on were torture. I hated it so much. Now i use it every now and then and i know better how to search the web to give me details on how to do things in gimp, but i could have choked the makers when i first started.
@@johnrobinson1020 honestly that's sorta the point, 30 years of gradual development from contributors makes it hard to design and enforce a unified UI/UX, even if you have dedicated interface designers taking part (which I'm not sure they do, I don't see anyone credited for it). It would be a lot of work even if they were there from the beginning - so overhauling the existing application and all the different bits that have been bolted to it over the years would be a huge undertaking
It's not a criticism, just the reality - they don't have the resources to do that kind of thing, and it does explain a lot of the awkward stuff. It's a solid program and a fantastic resource but the experience could definitely be improved, hopefully 3.0 has let them start fresh in a few ways (and fixed the dang tiny icons, no not those ones)
@@cactustactics So many dang tiny icons.
If you are using a keyboard with a numbers pad, you can use the '+' key on the pad without needing to hit the Shift key. It's more an idiosyncracy of how the computer reads keyboard signals.
GIMP is hard to use and used to be more like Photoshop but now operates every way opposite of Photoshop. I tried to do a simple crop in GIMP, once, and it took me way too long to get what I wanted than would have happened in Photoshop.
very cool deke. thanks
My pleasure!
Gimp to me when I'm on Linux is like a replacement for MS Paint on Windows. I don't daily drive with it, but if I need to do a quick tweak to a picture or setup something to print I use Gimp to do it. For everything else, it's Krita natively and Clip Studio Paint in Wine.
You are obviously not overly familiar with Gimp. The method you described to create a drop shadow is too complex, There is a straightforward way to do that. Your computer must be very slow if you are expecting it to take a few minutes to render the selected image using the foreground select tool. This takes a matter of seconds on my PC using Windows. Sizing control buttons etc is easy through Edit Preferences and, of course, is all personal choice to sizes of icons and shortcut keys you want to configure etc. I like my icons and text medium-sized and that suits me fine, you can also select to have the tools panel with colour icons similar to Photo Shop. Gimp 3.01 is now available and has many new features. But overall your video is good and informative for someone who is familiar with Gimp but would be a little daunting for a newcomer to photo editing. Gimp does have a rather steep learning curve but that is due to it having so many functions, even I who have been using Gimp for many years find new features that I didn't realize existed. Gimp is capable of doing most things that Photo Shop can do and Photo Shop is capable of doing most things that Gimp can do. I was an avid user of Photoshop until it became subscription only and you can no longer own a copy, this all comes down to greed, so I simply refuse to use Photo Shop.Thankfully, Gimp exists and is absolutley free and is truly Photo Shops biggest rival and competitor.
"Gimp does have a rather steep learning curve "
Easy peasy compared to the colossal learning curve of Photoshop (or Illustrator or anything Adobe).
@@thomasmaughan4798 I have both applications and I don't find Photoshop more difficult to learn. Both are great and do the same thing for me albeit using different methods to achieve a similar result. I am annoyed with Photoshop for not letting users purchase the software any longer. I guess the subscription model suits some users but the option to purchase outright should still be available.
What I show is how long it takes at a reasonable resolution on very fast machine.
@@dekeNow Wow! you could have fooled me.
Absolutely Brilliant and thanks. I'm neither a Gimp or Adobe user but want to soon play around with Gimp. Damn though you gave me a headache with all the stuff. 👍👍
I never noticed that the plus key is really the equals key. I always use the number pad, no modifier key necessary.
I have never used Photoshop. I've tried to use GIMP in the past and found it to be a confusing a mess. The first thing I tried to do as a test was just to draw a solid color freehand line. That took me 20-30 minutes to figure out how to do because GIMP was in some kind of painting mode or something. Then I tried to figure out how to simply copy a portion of the image and stamp it down somewhere else. I forget if I ever figured out how to do this without it trying to blend the copy and make it partially transparent.
As I recall, GIMP has a descreening option for scanned images. I had a scanned image that I wanted to use it on, but only on part of the image. I only wanted to use it on the image in the center of the page, but not the rest of the page, which already looked fine. I couldn't figure out how to properly outline the section I wanted to process. Automatic selection didn't work, as it also selected the text that the image was touching. If I zoomed out enough to see the entire image, I couldn't accurately follow the irregular edges of the image by freehand. If I zoomed in, I could follow the edges better, but then I could only outline a portion of the image.
In the end I gave up.
I use GIMP for like 10 years. I used photoshop back then, before. Im not pro. I just do like photography, retouched some for myself and did some pics for products sold by companies on ebay, and other online marketplaces. What I really miss from Photoshop is magic wand, that helped a lot. There is no such thing in GIMP. But I need to learn pro functions of it. Because magic wand is non-pro. What a joy to watch real pro on youtube in the sea of millions of absolute crap videos! Subscribed.
Say what you will, but GIMP destroys the Magic Wand tool. (Watch my video.)
@dekeNow I watched it. I see the functions of fast selecting of needed area of image works in a pro-way, you need to do not so many clicks to obtain very good result. I need to learn it.
I create art and put it in production from business cards to billboards to stone monuments to interior signage of all kinds. We do everything from traffic signs to bronze statues to post cards. For over 30 years I have used all the applications for these things and my swiss army knife is CorelDraw Graphics Suite and I prefer ver X8. I work everything full scale up to 150 feet. For speed and total control of output both vector and raster I have seen no equal. I output machine ready .dxf for CNC operations and print ready files for large or grandformat printers of various kinds in the same application. If I use Inkscape/GIMP or Krita it is for file processing workaround or something but if I had to use them I for production I could but it would suck. If I had to use Adobe products I would just quit.
A vote for Corel!
Even tho Gimp has pretty bad ui ux, you can technically change the hotkeys and the layout to match photoshop.
The Foreground select tool works in Linux very fast, in seconds, not like in Windows in your video where it's very slow.
One of the first things I was taught in school was the old aphorism, "you get what you pay for". It was presented as truth, and I have never known it to fail.
And how well did that philosophy work out for Bernie Madoff's customers again?
I was very reluctant to watch this, because I expected it to be yet another "gimp sucks" video. And while you're not sparing the well justified criticism, you're showing how it can be used. Thumbs up, from me! :)
Fun fact: if you learn to use shortcuts properly then GIMP is a VERY powerful tool. It still has some serious design flaws, but it's more than capable as main tool for design elements.
First thing, you can increase the size of the icons.
Simplest way, just in windows in the display options.
Version 3 is almost OUT!
Been tecnically been using GIMP since 2006, and it was the first image editor I used, barring MS-Paint, of course.
Can you import an image from a scanner with Gimp?
Yes. SANE, XSANE and xscanimage can work in GIMP for acquisition.
I won't deny though, in the end I often just batch scan and then post-process in GIMP rather than going via GIMP directly.
This is very interesting, I would love to ditch Photoshop, but it does quick amazing things that I haven't yet learnt to do in other prg. After years of hearing about Gimp, it might be time for me to learn it ! :) Thanks a lot for the introduction!
Using Gimp like forever. Very powerful. Wish they use regular Windows save modal box. Addobe lost me in 1999.
Thank you!
Have you had a chance to try the Gimp 3.0 beta.
I would love to see what is different and useful.
Your idea of workable icons is still smaller than my idea of workable icons. lol.
Need a selection tool that only selects without changing anything.
Yeah, it's best to give big corpo Adobe full control of my content so that they can train the AI that will do my work pretty soon. Oh, I forgot to mention the "you'll own nothing and be happy" future that Adobe loves.