#Gimp art manual
#Gimp art software

Voila! Only the chain icon doesn’t appear no matter where I put my cursor. Next you place your cursor between the eye icon and the text of the layer, and a chain icon appears. You select the “windows” tab, and “dockable dialogues” and then “layers”. Right click? Middle click? Layers drop down menu? No. In PS you hold shift and click both layers. Think I’m exaggerating? I typed up some text on a couple different layers, and I wanted to move them together. Just roll down the window, open it, turn the key, and I’m ready to go. Of course, it’s in a compartment in the outside rear view mirror.

#Gimp art manual

Let me look in the manual on page 256, section B, item 6. Is it on the floor? Under the seat? Ah, right, of course, the side door panel. But wait, where’s the ignition? Is it in the steering wheel column, then? No. It’s like getting a new car, and, well, let’s just start it up and take it out for a test run. My level of photo-editing is now goo-goo. But if you are coming from Photoshop, and you’ve mastered the program, you will find yourself painfully learning to crawl again, and speak your first undecipherable words.

#Gimp art software

It’s probably commendable that they tried to rethink what photo-editing software is, and if one started with GIMP it might be alright. It’s as if rather than go with what would be the most intuitive or efficient procedures, the good makers of GIMP made a point of not using any of the wheel Adobe had already invented. But GIMP?! Holy Crap! I need to go online to figure out the simplest procedure imaginable. A bit frustrating at times, but there’s nothing I couldn’t figure out, and I use styles, tables, graphs, and formulas. I use Libre Office instead of Microsoft Office.

Since switching to Linux, I’ve had to adapt to a new operating system. It took me over 20 to hammer out the super simple result above. I could have made a superior graphic in PS in 3 minutes. Love the idea of a free alternative, but I find it completely counter-intuitive and clunky. I made the graphic above in GIMP, which is the free and open-source alternative to the Adobe family’s $10-a-month-minimum-subscription PhotoShop. I’m in the middle of a new animation, by the way. I ended up placing the arms/legs under the droid-ship, and made them collapsible. I kept a lot of the design, including the small, circular spider eyes on top of the “head” the peculiar navigation flippers in the front and of course the four legs with different tools on the ends. Making a concept sketch was really useful.