Recent searches
Search options
Administered by:
The usability of #Gimp @GIMP is even worse these days then when I first used it. Is this just my experience as someone who only uses it occasionally or are #graphics #designers that use it daily also having that impression?
Esp. Trying to get simple things done is very annoying.
Want to change the color of exactly one pixel? => Screw you I'll apply antialiasing and fuck up all surrounding pixels with no obvious way to disable it.
@GIMP Want to change color of something to transparent?
Even though the layer already shows the Transparent color/property grid you still sometimes first have to add "Alpha channel" to the layers. Why do you show it then already if you claim it isn't there yet?
@GIMP Want to cut parts of a big image away to get parts of it as a smaller one?
Yea, if you just select the part you want and paste it into a new layer, delete the old one and then right click the only layer in existence it only shows "Layers to Image size". And if you don't have alpha channels enabled it will just fill everything that it showed as alpha with the background color but not change the size. You also can't really google for it.
@GIMP You basically have to start with a generic gimp tutorial and thereby discover what the terminology within gimp is so that you can google for it. Spoiler "Image" is not what you've currently selected but the entire project/file. So what you want to do is "Image > Crop to content" after you've clicked on "Layer > Transparency > Add Alpha Channel" just so that Gimp doesn't replace the shown transparency with a random color for no obvious reason (so a novice at least perceives it).
@GIMP And another spoiler, if you now just think you did your cutting wrong and go back to googling "how to cut/crop/scale xyz in Gimp" none of the results will tell you to check if Alpha channels are enabled or that Gimp by default will remove alpha channels from a layer if that feature isn't enabled (why dosn't it just either auto enable or prompt when pasting the image in and the layer for it is created? Or why not at least do it when you paste something into an empty project?)
@GIMP Oh inconsistencies like why is there a "Paintbrush" and a "Pencil" tool with the only difference being that Antialiasing being enabled for the former one?
Why not also have it as a checkbox like for example it is with the copy/paste tool?
Also most of the time when I have to fix individual pixels it is to reverse the automatically applies Pntialiasing, when I don't notice it immediately. e.g. cut something, temp store it on another layer and try to move it back but it no longer matches
@agowa338 pencil tool could be better called a pixel tool really. Unlike the paintbrush, the coordinates are locked to integer pixel values.
It is a separate tool so people with tablet can have a pencil stylus and a paintbrush stylus.