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A GIMP Guide, but from a Photoshop User (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by otters_raft@lemmy.ca to c/foss@beehaw.org

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This should be helpful for people that learned Photoshop in the past (for work or in school). From what I understand, a lot of the friction with GIMP is the workflow differences, and potentially unintuitive UI/UX choices.

tldr: recovering Adobe Photoshop user shows you features in the very free and very open source gnu image manipulation program :D

my relevant GIMP config files: https://github.com/BreadOnPenguins/dots/tree/master/.config/GIMP/3.0

GIMP documentation: https://www.gimp.org/docs/

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[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The program started off as IMP, Image Manipulation Program. They added a G (General) to make it a reference to a character in Pulp Fiction.

The name's history has nothing to do with ableism. Besides, not many artists care; look up what a "gimping machine" is :).

Words can have multiple meanings and context matters a lot. Besides its usage as a slur is pretty outmoded by now.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Well, it is still considered that by disabled people and that is who really matters in all this.

Until they drop the name, it'll continue being considered unprofessional and not in good standing with those of us who care about disabled people, especially if we are disabled ourselves.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

Feel free to be offended I guess.