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A patch for optimizing GIMP 3.0+ for Adobe Photoshop users, including features like:

  • Tool organization to mimic the position of Adobe Photoshop;
  • New Splash Screen;
  • New default settings to maximize space on the canvas;
  • Shortcuts similar to the ones in Photoshop for Windows, following Adobe's Documentation;
  • New icon and Name from custom .desktop file.

https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP/blob/master/screenshots/photogimp_3_-_diolinux.png

https://photogimp.com/

Flatpak (Linux)

In order to install the newest version of PhotoGIMP on your Linux operating system using Flatpak, just follow this simple steps:

  • Make sure you already have GIMP installed from Flathub; (for Ubuntu/Mint user just select Flatpak below the install button in the manager)

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  • Start and quit GIMP after you installed before you continue!

  • Download the files from this repository or just click here - > https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP/releases/download/3.0/PhotoGIMP-linux.zip

  • Extract the content of the zip file on your home folder (.config and .local - they are the important ones) and overwrite the files if needed; (if you can't see the file click Ctrl+H to see hidden files)

-You're done, enjoy it! πŸ˜„

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[–] MxRemy@piefed.social 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I love GIMP in general, and I usually don't mind learning new layouts and workflows and stuff. However, I am perplexed by GIMP's default keyboard shortcuts. Like, shift-B for bucket fill, because they needed B for... paths? Scale is shift-T because they needed shift-S for shear of all things? Is shear a way bigger part of your everyday workload than scale? Also 3 different keys is entirely too many for the "Fit image in window" and "select none" shortcuts, I use those all the time.

I'm just picking for fun though, GIMP is awesome and nothing could make me go back to Adobe lol

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I want to like it so much but you've hit the nail on the head there.

I'll give it another crack with this patch though.

The default shortcuts make 0 sense

[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago (5 children)

PhotoGIMP

GIMPShop

There really is no good portmanteau of the two products.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Actually great.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

PimpMyPhoto.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Nothing wrong with photogimp.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

GimPhotoshop.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

both are great names

T. BDSM enjoyer

[–] msokiovt@lemmy.today 17 points 2 days ago

This helps Photoshop addicts get out of Photoshop and into GIMP. That I can confirm myself (though I'm no Photoshop addict).

[–] Wigglesworth@retrolemmy.com 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

be so dedicated and stubborn that you change the entire UI of another program instead of learning it.

I want to say I don't do this, but here I am using nano instead of vi.

[–] pryre@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Sure, one could learn a new program, new UI, new plugins... Or you could use something that follows your conventions and do what you actually want to do; edit photos (or edit text without knowing the cryptic string to save it).

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I want to say I don’t do this, but here I am using nano instead of vi.

it is me.

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago

Hmm. I'll give this a whirl, have been running dual boot on my macs for years and kinda stuck with Mojave as it was the last macOS to run 32-bit code. Been sitting on my copy of PSCS3 since I bought it in 2007 and I have tons of custom brushes and really nifty plug-ins that I have been loathe to let go of. 19 years isn't a bad run, I'll be moving to Linux shortly on all my Macs, so it is finally about time to leap.

Thanks for the link!

[–] refalo@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

it's giving me GIMPshop flashbacks

I make an appimage of this here

Just rename it to have photogimp in the title to enable it, otherwise it defaults to regular gimp3.

I'm absolutely terrible with image editing software, but I use gimp on occasion.

It's so few and far between that I want to kill myself everytime I need to do something in it and can't remember anything at all.