Who needs shape tool when we have text tool
really looks like more of a squircle
OoOOoO
how i'd do it:
I dont get it
It's a basic GIMP knowledge, really. Don't forget to add an alpha channel to your layer after step 2, otherwise it won't work.
Why would you do this when the functionality is built right in?
Don't forget to draw the rest of the owl, too!
Welll first you draw this head...
outstanding move
some more unicode basic shapes for everyone
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Thank you for the new gimp toolbar
It's easy if you use the right tool.
does GIMP not have a circle/shape tool? Why?
It does! And it's so easy to use.
It's so obvious I can't imagine why anyone would be confused.
Draw a circle with the ellipse selection tool
So it does have what is effectively a circle shape tool. I don't know why people are saying it doesn't.
I was being sarcastic because really it doesn't have a tool with explicit features, just a workaround using a couple features together.
For a new user it's very difficult to do a pretty basic task.
That's not actual shape tool.
Shape created by shape tools should be always editable. Using ellipse selection tool means the circle is rasterized.
Paths in Gimp are persistent, non-rasterized, and editable. Just make a circle with the ellipse tool and then convert it to a path.
That's still not as intuitive as actual shape tools on any other software.
If average casual user get confused to it, then it's a bad UX.
Trying to cater to some mythical "average casual user" and avoiding some vague concept of "bad UX" at all cost is how you get unusable garbage like Gnome and Teams.
I'm not saying it has to be GNOME or Teams. Gnome is too limiting (I also don't like it), while Teams is... whatever.
It's just have to be great for advance user, while easy to user for first-time user.
Let me give you some example of bad UX, that fixed in other software:
Almost all of the UX problems here are recognized by the dev, even actively discussed on how to fix them!
You can make advance application while still catering towards newbies! For example: Clip Studio Paint. They have multiple layout and UI for different use case and audience.
mythical "average casual user"
Mythical? You realize people like this exist, right? This is why programs like this exist. Take Audacity for example, it was made with non-professional audio people in mind. Just people who have odds and ends to do with audio. It's simple enough that someone with no prior knowledge can start poking around and figuring things out, and it's advanced enough that it can get the job done for most people who need to work with audio files.
I'm not saying that GIMP needs to prioritize the first time user experience. If making the UI/UX more approachable for new users would necessarily make it worse for established users, then it may be a decent tradeoff. Denying the existence of people who just need to edit an image here and there is absurd though.
nope, and nobody knows why
The development of 3.0 was focused on GEGL and non-destructive editing. Working on the shape tool in parallel would've taken away resources and pushed back the release date even further.
Why can a shape tool not be pixel based? There's no intrinsic requirement for vectors.
Because a shape tool requires non-destructive vector layers.
No it doesn't, why not a bitmap shape tool?
Why would it? It's a photo editing tool, not a drawing tool.
Yep. It's not Inkscape.
Do PhotoShop and Illustrator both do full vector editing? I never paid to find out.
Photoshop can't draw capsicums so GIMP is still better.
Yep. It's not Krita.
Yep. It's not FireAlpaca.
Your circle is a bit off....
...its like wonky on the corners for some reason.
Of course its an o.....
Good enough circle yay
There are so many weird things about GIMP, and it feels like they add more over time. I've moved a layer and then tried to draw on it and had nothing happen. Why? Because the layer was created as an array of pixels the size of the image, and when I move it there's now a dead zone where there's no pixels in the visible image. It turns out there's a special command to expand moved layers to fill the image: https://docs.gimp.org/3.0/en/gimp-layer-resize-to-image.html
There are times using it that it feels like a maze to navigate to just get my changes reflected in the document.
now this is truly terrible knowledge.
I just made one, just need to merge those three layers and I'll be done...
This thread has made it clear to me that I should wait another year before checking on gimp again.
mad skills
Hint: :q!
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