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PhotoGIMP - The Photoshop Like Experience on GIMP

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

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)
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! 😄

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Vanilla GIMP has superior UX compared to Photoshop imo
- This is just wrong. I love foss and the effort put into gimp, but there are so many little ux things that it gets wrong.
  The big one for me is non destructive resizing of pasted objects. Photoshop puts the little drag handles on them allowing for resizing, the top middle one allows you to rotate, holding the shift key locks proportions etc, all right away after pasting.
  On gimp you can open a menu and specify the height and width, or you can click shift + s, which kind of works like Photoshops but is somehow clunkier & destructive when shrinking.
  I also really miss smart objects and the universal tool options menu (not sure what it's called but it lives on the top of the canvas on PS and gives you all the relevant options for whatever tool you are using. I'm sure gimp has an equivalent but out of the box I find it much more correct and confusing.
- As someone with no PS experience or other baggage weighing me down, I find the default UI to be insanely unintuitive. Im not even sure what the panels on the right or bottom are for, the left toolbar panel randomly disappears on me occasionally and I can never figure out how to get it back without closing and reopening GIMP. Things like Crop don't seem to do anything obvious. Painting with the brush doesn't work unless you first use the selection tool to draw a box around the area you want to use the brush. Etc, etc, etc. Some of this is obviously just because I'm a novice, and I manage to fumble my way through things, but at the same time it could be drastically simplified for simple tasks. It feels like a tool that was built for people who already knew how to use it.
  
  I highly recommend you watch one of the free video courses, from the beginning, on youtube.
  GIMP is a really sophisticated piece of software designed for maximum technical control and flexibility. If you can dedicate a few hours to learning it you can do basically anything, for free, forever. If you only need to do basic stuff it might be worth looking at something else like Tux Paint for example, which is faster to pick up. It also has sound effects and is great fun.
  
  But the point they're making is that other editors are intuitive, and don't need a video tutorial
- Agreeable, but this patch is useful for people coming from photoshop, especially the shortcuts. The muscle memory is hard to fix 😙
  
  The muscle memory is hard to fix
  Also this is software, we should celebrate and embrace the fact that the same tool can be customized to look and be organized differently to maximally ease users into learning it. This is one of the super powers of software!
  
  Preach. My key bindings followed me from Avid to FCP to Premiere. Still hittin H for RaHzor.
- I'll take 10 of whatever you're smoking because it's obviously the good shit
  
  Lol. I don't need drugs, I'm bad tripping by default
- now that is one VERY controversial and brave opinion. I admire you for it.
  
  Really? I don't think Photoshop is any better than GIMP. It's slow, complicated and adobe cloud.
- Hell to the nawww
- I agree. I transitioned to GIMP on my own hardware a couple of years ago but still have to use Photoshop once a week for work.
  Panning and zooming - a massive part of graphics UX - is miles better in GIMP for example and makes PS look primitive by comparison.

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