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[-] at_an_angle@lemmy.one 75 points 6 months ago

I tried. I really tried to like GIMP. The main reason I don't like it is because it's trying so hard to be a professional picture editor and the UI.

Why can't I deselect things? Why does something need to be selected at all times? Let me just click a button and remove the selection outline and deselect things.

No. I won't help the dev team because I can't code to save my ass. I turn wrenchs and fix things for a living.

I use other, simpler pic editors. Why should I learn to fly a Boeing 747 when a Cessna 172 will get me where I need to go? I'm making a shit post once every three months, not professional art.

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago

You can deselect all with CTRL + SHIFT + A and deselect a specific part by changing the selection mode from replace or additive to subtract.

[-] festnt@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

imagine locking deselection behind a keybind nobody will know about

[-] kspatlas@lemm.ee 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's literally at the top of the select menu

[-] UnityDevice@startrek.website 5 points 6 months ago

Everyone just confirming aliteral's point.

[-] festnt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

interesting, i guess i just never checked.

i always just left clicked outside of the selection box to deselect

[-] umbraroze@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

When I was learning about GIMP key shortcuts I was like "Ctrl+A selects everything, Ctrl+Shift+A deselects everything. Makes sense."

And then I went to most of the other apps. "Ctrl+D? Well it's one less keypress, but... WHY?"

To be fair, I get it now, I've used plenty of image editors and I remember the keybinds wherever I am. Just that I sometimes find it annoying that The Other Software hasn't adopted logical keybindings.

(I find it particularly annoying that a lot of image editors try to be fancy and sophisticated and Photoshop-compatible and think it's at all appropriate to use Ctrl+NumpadPlus and Ctrl+NumpadMinus for zooming. Just use what GIMP uses! NumpadPlus and NumpadMinus. It's not hard! What are you using the plain plus and minus for, anyway? Absolutely nothing! I just checked, I need to use Ctrl in Affinity Photo. Plain plus and minus are useless. I see you. ...oh I can just rebind these. Done.)

[-] GTG3000@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

I just change certain keybinds to be GIMP-like whenever I switch drawing programs.

N is the pencil, CTRL-SHIFT-A is deselect. There's something else, but I can't remember right now.

[-] irreticent@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Do you know of any good video tutorials? There are so many I don't know where to start. I tried one and it seemed too fast paced and not that helpful.

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