Linux might be all the rage now, but it won't last forever.
Check out Scribus for conversion into CMYK (FOGRA 27 is the default, but you can add your own color profiles if that's not working for you)īut, in retrospect, it might have been a very good move to use Linux and get familiar with it, and especially to contribute to its development,
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Feel free to try to impliment, but read this first. Also check out Mask to Selection, and Selction to Path. Check out Quick Mask and Layer > Mask > Add Layer Mask Really? Gimp has more Masking options than the Carnival of Venice. View > Rotate (also Ctrl + Shift + Middle Mouse Button) (hit b to end your line and start a new separate one) I don't know why Adobe made a separate tool for this. There is no point at all to having separate tools. If you impliment this, please make it part of the rectangle tool. See for a current solution that works great. Click on the first empty box beside your path to show it. Check out for vertical text, and a much better and more versatile vector text system, and easy masks that don't need separate tools. Not implemented, these would be neat, but to be honest the Text tool needs a serious overhaul anyway. Check out my 30 second runthrough of the Paths Tool and related functions: Layer > Mask > Add Layer Mask (check the "Selection" radio button and the "Invert Mask" checkbox and Click "Add") Can be achieved with resynthesize as above, but if you must have it in an eraser tool form, feel free to implement. It contains a wealth of interesting painting effects for GIMP. Switch back to your current document and paint as you like In your save point document, ctrl-click on the area to paint from Open another copy of your current working document from your last save point Scroll down in tool settings to "Source", and choose "pattern"
Check out for an illustration program to rival Photoshop or Painter X GIMP will acquire brushes that include background color mixing in the 2.9/3.0 release Additionally: Colors > Map > Color Exchange Colors > Color Balance / Hue Saturation / Etc. (I have no idea why you'd need a separate tool for this. Select area to be cropped with lasso tool Moreover notice you can move points you have already put down simply by dragging them where you want them (better than Photoshop in this way). The default mode for the lasso tool in GIMP is polygon. In the rectangle select dialogue, scroll down to the "size" and enter "1" for the width or height Draw a rectangle selection across the canvas from end to end where you want the 1px selection. This was my response, having successfully replaced Photoshop with GIMP quite a few years ago: Their artists demanded a bunch of things that they were sure GIMP didn't have, or couldn't do. There was a recent question on the GIMP developer thread asked by the head of a company to find out if GIMP was right for their graphics department.
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It's perfectly usable for professional work. GIMP developers must have skins of steel to put up with this crap year in and year out. But indignant insults coming from people who didn't pay for the development of the product, who don't contribute any of their own time to make it better, and who clearly don't appreciate the massive achievement that GIMP is just take the cake. Should they strive to make it better? Yes. Some people will never be satisfied and will never appreciate the hundreds or thousands of man hours of free work that GIMP developers have poured in to this product.Ĭould it be improved? Of course! Anything can. Whether that's true or not, now I hear complaints from some users that GIMP is not any good because it doesn't have a multi-window layout (not realizing that changing it to multi-window layout is as simple as unchecking "Single-window mode" under the "Windows" menu). I'm not a PS user, but I heard that around that time PS changed to a multi-window layout. So the volunteers who work on GIMP eventually came out with a single window layout.
I remember for ages PS fans were complaining about how GIMP had a multiple window layout, and how unnecessarily complex that was, and they wanted a single window layout.
GIMP has advanced leaps and bound over what it once was. People whining about GIMP not being as good as PS don't appreciate what life was like on Linux before GIMP existed, or how primitive GIMP was when it first came out.