• Stern@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Gimp is great for when you need photoshop, but aren’t doing it as your job, and don’t want to sail the seven seas.

    Also, Fwiw when I want to outline text in gimp i select a text path, make a new layer, select from path, expand the selected area 2px, then fill (oh and move the layer behind the text layer). Unike in photoshop where theres like… one step, iirc.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 days ago

      I’d rather use photopea a quadruple time before installing GIMP.
      Hell I even use Ps CS2 at work because Adobe unlocked the activation (and removed the page from the archive. org with the u lock keys) for free.
      Great enough for the few graphics I want to do and at home I use properly sailed goods.

    • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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      5 days ago

      Yeah I agree, I used to use it when I was a student who couldn’t afford photoshop and I was able to create some awesome graphics.

      Once I got used to photoshop (I used it from CS2 to CS5) I couldn’t get back into GIMP. The hot keys and mental model were just so much better in PS and PS clones.