I was interested in an artist’s specific critiques of GIMP.

I can give my very vague hazy input, as someone who used to be an artist. I used GIMP many years ago when I just started digital art, since it was a free image program (and Krita didn’t exist at the time). This must have been fifteen years ago or more. I distinctly remember using GIMP to “trace” over my scanned pencil/ink physical art to make digital art, since I didn’t have a drawing tablet at the time. I did a decent amount of drawings in GIMP this way, and therefore feel like I must have “got the hang of” the UI during this period of time. So GIMP was the first image manipulation program I used and I used it a lot, so therefore, I would say that means I should have built up some kind of “intuition” or memory on how to use it.

Then, I got a drawing tablet. I don’t remember at the time of GIMP had pressure sensitivity or not. But I do remember that around the time I got my Wacom tablet, I figured out how to… 🏴‍☠️ acquire 🦜 Photoshop. I then basically abandoned GIMP for Photoshop and Paint Tool SAI to draw digital art fully rather than scanning in physical drawings.

Now, not long after, maybe a few/several months later, my mother asked me about needing an image manipulation program. I told her about GIMP, and helped install it for her. Then she eventually came by and asked me how to do some relatively simple image manipulation task — I can’t remember exactly, but say something like “rotate a part of an image” — and I told her “oh no problem!” and took her laptop to show her how to do it and… I completely forgot and couldn’t even figure it out. Nothing I tried to do that I felt like should have done the simple image manipulation task got me close to doing it. I think the furthest I got was making a “dancing ants” selection but couldn’t do a rotate for the life of me (or whatever I had to do). And I’m sure I tried to search Google on how to do it and it didn’t help. I eventually got flustered and told her that I had no idea how to do it, and I was pretty embarrassed, considering I had formerly used this program so much for my initial start into digital art.

I think about this memory whenever GIMP UI discussions come up. To me, the fact that I so quickly forgot how to do something so basic not that long after I stopped using it suggests there is something unintuitive about the way things are set up in GIMP. I will go long stints not using Photoshop since I don’t really do much art anymore, and yet when I come back, I’ll remember how to things, or if I do forget something, the menu l’ll find it in makes sense to me. As to what and why something doesn’t feel right, I unfortunately can’t articulate it well, though I’m sure that’s because of how long ago it’s been at this point. And one issue about something being intuitive vs not is that it makes it difficult to explain why something “feels right” or doesn’t.

Granted, I have seen news that GIMP has recently updated its UI again, and I am curious about trying to out, especially since I heard they’re requesting feedback.

Timeline for animations in an image manipulator?

Yeah, Photoshop has this. Makes it easy to edit GIFs for memes, as GIFs get split into each frame.

Spotify has detailed the procedure on its support page, explaining that Family plan members may need to “verify they live with the plan manager by scanning a QR code”.

So is it a family plan or a “lives in the same house” plan? My sister is my family, and therefore on my family plan, but she doesn’t live in the same house as me.

Why are these companies so stingy? It’s pathetic.

Driving involves other people in your car and around you. And the public power should be used to protect them if you represent a threat toward them.

As opposed to smoking, which doesn’t affect other people’s health? Secondhand smoke is a thing.

Kenney is awesome.

the music lmao

it’s crack for burnt out programmers who don’t enjoy the process of creating software anymore.

That explains perfectly my use of it for my job (where we’re expected to use it anyway). I’d been burnt out at my company for a long time, and LLMs give me the ability to at least still fulfill my feature quotas long after my desire to give a shit about the codebase and software had gone. I am a techmeth addict now. It kinda sucks, but I feel hopeless about tech as a career nowadays and just the future in general, so I don’t even care anymore.

Thank you for enlightening me. 🫘

What’s the story with the bean posting? I’m new to the Lemmiverse.

I’ll do you one better…People that say REESEES PEESEES.

lmao it’s me

Iirc this was the one that showed the sexism of the MPAA too, like how a fully visible penis gets rated R (I think American Psycho was the example), but in another film where some of the top of a woman’s pubic hair was showing in a scene, they were going to rate it NC-17 unless they removed it.

This was a really good explanation, thank you!

Make them replant the forests.

I’m laughing my ass off