The usability of #Gimp @GIMP is even worse these days then when I first used it. Is this just my experience as someone who only uses it occasionally or are #graphics #designers that use it daily also having that impression?
Esp. Trying to get simple things done is very annoying.
Want to change the color of exactly one pixel? => Screw you I'll apply antialiasing and fuck up all surrounding pixels with no obvious way to disable it.
Esp. Trying to get simple things done is very annoying.
Want to change the color of exactly one pixel? => Screw you I'll apply antialiasing and fuck up all surrounding pixels with no obvious way to disable it.
Klaus Frank •
Even though the layer already shows the Transparent color/property grid you still sometimes first have to add "Alpha channel" to the layers. Why do you show it then already if you claim it isn't there yet?
Klaus Frank •
Yea, if you just select the part you want and paste it into a new layer, delete the old one and then right click the only layer in existence it only shows "Layers to Image size". And if you don't have alpha channels enabled it will just fill everything that it showed as alpha with the background color but not change the size. You also can't really google for it.
Klaus Frank •
Klaus Frank •
Klaus Frank •
Why not also have it as a checkbox like for example it is with the copy/paste tool?
Also most of the time when I have to fix individual pixels it is to reverse the automatically applies Pntialiasing, when I don't notice it immediately. e.g. cut something, temp store it on another layer and try to move it back but it no longer matches
Klaus Frank •
The only way I found so far is to duplicate the layer, create a mask that has a cutout for the pixels I want to change, apply it, and hope it doesn't look too shitty when the layers are combined again (as it obviously still will change the pixels but that'll be hidden behind the original layer).
Klaus Frank •
Otherwise I won't be able to copy and paste between these images later as it'll have different color tones for what was supposed to be common between all of them.
Klaus Frank •
* "Fuzzy Select"
* "Color picker tool"
* for the active forground/background color
* Bucket fill set to "Fill similar colors"
To fill a transparent background of one layer you literally have to either use "inverse selection after having selected everything else, or use that "select by Color" (cause of this special handling) + Bucket tool "Fill whole selection" instead of just "Fill similar colors"
Klaus Frank •
You basically have to select all but the lowest one of the layers you want to merge and use the "Merge Down" option.
That's just counter intuitive and nothing else.
GIMP •
GIMP •
GIMP uses a model of light “channels”, R G and B, and an alpha channel, to make up an image; each pixel has colour and transparency stored separately. You can't use a paint tool to change transparency directly.
Klaus Frank •
R, G, B, and Alpha/Translucency
I thought of Alpha/Translucency as extending the regular 3 dimensional color space by a 4th one for the translucency.
But that's not really the issue, what gets me is the inconsistency between the different tools in Gimp.
The tool I had as a child before I first touched Gimp treated it as if it was a color, but I could live with Gimp just not treating it as a color (if it was consistent).
GIMP •
It is a separate tool so people with tablet can have a pencil stylus and a paintbrush stylus.
GIMP •
Yes, GIMP is a large and complex program. Is a violin useless because you can’t pick it up and play it right away?
Klaus Frank •