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Ooh, new gimp version.
I looked up what a “shape tool” is supposed to do. How about using better tools for this, like Inkscape, export as pixel file (png or whatever), and import it into GIMP?
and that is why I always keep my receipt
It’s so tiring…
Use the circle selection tool, mark an area, fill it with a solid colour/gradient/texture or morph it further or stroke the path to create a hollow circle
So many options that amount to more than just a shape tool.
Wouldn’t that simply create a bitmap circle, though? The advantage of shapes in Photoshop is that they are vectors.
Select circle -> save selection as path. There’s your vector. I’d, however, use some vector app for vector graphics, independent of the OS I’m using.
Well it’s still a good idea to have shapes saved as vectors in a bitmap program. So resizing doesn’t affect the shape.
Vectors in a bitmap program
I just let this stand on it’s own.
All vectors will be bitmaps when displayed on a screen.
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Unintuitive.
I heard of photoshop when I was 13 and I installed a pirated version, just started clicking around and I always found what I wanted in a minute.
10 Years later, I switch 100% to Linux, I have to do some light design work, I open gimp - I CLICK AROUND FOR HALF AN HOUR FOR SOMETHING SIMPLE - give up and google it, it gives me a reply like yours “just go to a completely unrelated menu to conjure a hack out of your ass that barely resembles what you originally intended to do”
If you want something intuitive, use Paint or pen and paper.
that’s dumb. you should just draw on the wall of the cave
Try krita it has such things :D
yeah. actualy is there anything in gimp you can’t do in krita?
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Cry about a missing shape tool?
Have you tried photopea?
Yeah, but it runs in a browser, chokes on larger projects and Ivan is an asshole.
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Spoiler: most people don’t care about “year of the linux desktop”. Linux works for me and those losers on windows be damned. Why should we cater to them? Especially since they won’t put any effort into learning linux.
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I wouldn’t have switched personally if Linux ui was still shit. I put the effort into learning because the initial experience was good enough to warrent delving deeper into it.
That’s several more steps than it ought to take. Including the step of having to look this up, because you’d never intuitively figure this out on your own.
So many options that amount to more than just a shape tool.
If I wanted to learn some arcane bullshit to draw a circle Id just learn C++.
Sorry best I can do is a programmable turtle that moves around as a pen.
Aww, the poor turtle is trying their very best.
Also, the stupid name chosen by mid-1990s edgelords trying to be funny is still stupid.
The GNU Image Manipulation Program is edgy to you?
I use GIMP only for the simple pixel stuff, and I hope they did not make basic operations even more complicated. I always struggle to get some basic things done just because there are myriads of for me useless and arcane settings.
I use Paint.net usually and there are plugins people make that you can install. Does GIMP not have that?
It does
As relevant now as it was 10 years ago
I’ve seen this exact image in a thread before and the circlejerk assured everyone this didn’t happen
Oh so this is not a photoediting class I thought. So I launched Krita. And everyone laughed when they realized Photoshop was the wrong tool for the job.
We had icecream.
GIMP… GIMP never changes…
GIMP needs a glow up. It looks like what it is, but for a program looking for artists and designers to switch - you’re not going to get it by looking like the Temu photoshop.
It’s among the next 3 things on the list. You can expect it in gimp 3.1.0 in 2056
400 years from now, we will have interstellar ships but we still won’t have a shape tool for GIMP :(
“Can you isolate the alien from the background?”
“No”
Its on the roadmap. AFAIK it requires vector layers before it can be worked on.
Not gonna lie this update is great. We got TEXT OUTILINES! Do you hear that??? Finally text outlines 🥹❤️
lol ; silley
Non-destructive editing was way, way more important. Shapes can be done differently anyway.
GIMP (at least in v2) does have a vector path tool and stores the paths with the image! Thing is, they kind of work like selections and you have to explicitly stroke the paths on bitmap layers. It’s a bit more complicated than necessary and not easy to grasp at first.
