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A guy went to adobe.com and told the truth (community.adobe.com)

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[-] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 41 points 2 months ago

Just a reminder even PewDiePie stopped using Adobe products after 15 years of daily usage. He switched to GIMP, but that is not my main point. I found it interesting how he gets even charged for cancelling the service! Look, I'm not a PewDiePie fan and usually don't watch his videos. But this one was pretty fun. The video with timestamp at the segment I was talking about: https://youtu.be/pVI_smLgTY0?t=329

[-] comrademiao@piefed.social 17 points 2 months ago

In his most recent video he complains that switching to GIMP was too difficult

[-] dewritoninja@pawb.social 29 points 2 months ago

I love Foss projects and I try to be as positive as I can be. There are several programs that while having a learning curve are actually usable, but gimp is so user hostile its insane.

How in the ever living fuck does it not have a god damn circle tool. Why the fuck can't I rotate selections in real time, I need to precalculate the angle and pray it's correct.

And those are just 2 things I encountered while trying to make a shitty image of pinkie pie as Dante Alighieri 2 days ago. I can't imagine having to actually learn it to replace Photoshop for work.

And it's so intentionally shitty, inkscape has a UX that's at least 10 times better, 1000 times since they actually let you draw a god damn circle ffs.

[-] leadore@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Instead of separate dedicated shape tools, in gimp you use the appropriate shape of Selection tool to create the shape(s), then you either add the fill and/or border of the style you want, or use 'Stroke selection' to choose from various draw/paint tools/styles. So for a circle you use the Ellipse Selection tool.

You can use any of the transformation tools, including Rotate, on the selection vs the image contents --you choose the tool option for which thing you want it to apply to. You can drag or enter a specific number.

(this is just information for anyone who wants to know how to do the things you mentioned. I'm not interested in talking about how good or shitty the programs are or comparing them)

[-] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

Why would I draw a circle in a photo editing suite?

Maybe you need something different?

[-] bleustenns@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago

It's actually a valid thing to need. If nothing else, circular masks are much easier to do when you don't have to go and search for a png of a circle for a task that should've been over by the time you hit enter in the search bar. I understand GIMP is made with entirely volunteer work, and people shouldn't be hostile towards anything FOSS unless given good reason, but there are very good reasons people cannot switch to GIMP.

[-] Rugnjr 2 points 2 months ago

To make a circular mask in gimp, use the circle select tool, then fill your selection.

[-] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

So he switched to a different tool then? I didn't watch the video yet, but will follow on doing soon probably.

[-] copygirl 3 points 2 months ago

I found it interesting how he gets even charged for cancelling the service!

The explanation I found before is that you can pay for yearly subscription that is of course cheaper but still pay monthly. The cancellation fee is for the remaining unpaid months. Or something like that.