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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Do you mean that the menu structure makes no sense or that it's different to Photoshop, which is what you're used to?

Both.

I think not only if I approach it as thinking Photoshop did it right or as a blank slate "how do I do X?" I get really confused and annoyed. Off the top of my head I won't be great with examples but here's a couple. There were a couple of very basic and common things I tried to assign a shortcut key to in Gimp which the UI wouldn't allow. Also, selection within a layer feels bonkers to me in gimp. There's like two selection modes, one is floating or something? Just feels weird and convoluted. I always feel like I'm on the verge of destroying my selection by accident.

Adobe indeed will only be worse over time from all the evidence we've seen, I agree. I have a windows install on a secondary drive but I try to never use it, even for Photoshop. But I would absolutely love a version of gimp that has the basics a bit closer to Photoshop, because:

  1. a lot of things Photoshop does are more intuitive for me. Even the move = V thing. Pretty sure they did that because a v looks like an arrow which you point at what you want to move. I never remember a moment when I couldn't remember which key it was, for that reason. Yeah M for rectangular isn't a good example but eventually you run out of letters...
  2. even if some things are not intuitive in Photoshop per se, it really pays for users to get what they expect. This has been the go to professional tool since, what, 1990? To illustrate what I mean about expectations: Ctrl v only makes sense due to its keyboard layout position (near c) but I think many on keyboard layouts, that's not even true. Conventions (logical or not) arise and get adhered to and that's a good thing. Can you imagine if paste on Mac was command P, control V on windows and Control G (glue) on Linux. Yikes I'm so glad that's not the case.