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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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krita is another foss editor
- Of the 2, I've come to prefer Krita. Acly replaces most of Photoshop's generative tools cleanly and improves upon them with features like pose vectors and live mode.
- Krita is missing one feature that I rely on often - setting the white point in the levels tool.
  
  Krita should letcha set the white point in the levels tool. But it won't letcha pick white with the eyedropper, which is a notable omission.
- Krita is an Illustrator replacement not a Photoshop replacement.
  
  It is my understanding that Kriita is a raster art program, while Illustrator is a vector art program. Inkscape is a vector art program.
  
  If I'm not mistaken, illustrator is vector based, krita is pixel based. So drawing-wise, krita is closer to Photoshop than illustrator.
  
  Nah, I use krita for everything Ive used photoshop for over the decades. It has a lot of the same exact filters and ui conventions etc of creative suite era photoshop.

Thank you. Works well. I'm much happier with the interface I used for over 30 years in Photoshop, it's helpful to have that emulated somewhat in GIMP.
I also tracked down how to set the scroll wheel to zoom without the need for the Ctrl key, which was another annoyance. I've tried before to discover this, but failed. Maybe I was looking at the official documentation, which could use some work. Anyway, here's how to get the scroll wheel to zoom without the Ctrl key:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQoz__idQKM
- To save anyone from having to watch a video:
  Edit > Preferences > Input Devices > Input Controllers > Main Mouse Wheel
  In this menu, double-click "Scroll Up", and select view-zoom-in-accel. Then do the same to "Scroll Down" with the value view-zoom-out-accel.
- Just did that, thanks👌.
  btw the comand x me was just :
  view-zoom-in
  view-zoom-out

shoutout to diolinux! dude is doing a lot of heavy lifting to help out new linux users over in brazil. and photogimp is quite useful everywhere.
- True. I don't watch him myself, but I enjoy seeing how he's managing to get more exposure to linux around here

Now we need NotepadKwrite.
- Kate, Geany and Micro are already pretty good.
  I'd argue that they're even better than Notepad++. There's certainly no shortage of good text editors on Linux...
  
  Kate is too bloated to fill the role of Notepad. Kwrite is lighter but like Kate all the shortcuts are different from Notepad and the Gnome Text Editor. Took me three attempts to get the shortcuts right, first because I didn't save them correctly and second because I missed one of the way too many things you can configure.
  Kate and Kwrite make the OOTB experience with KDE bad for new users from anywhere else.
- What about https://notepadqq.com/ ?
  
  Seems decent. Presumably has the Windows shortcut scheme, seems theme-able, though that it has sessions and tabs makes it a bit too bloated to really be the same as Notepad.

if this improves how gimp handles fonts I'd use it.
- I do not think it impacts that. Have you used GIMP3? Way better text handling.
  
  it's not though. I just tried it and you can't highlight text and then scroll through fonts. you still need to know specifically what font you want or know all the fonts installed on your system. Unlike photoshop where you can highlight text and then scroll through the fonts you have installed which will change the highlighted text to whatever font on the fly. Gimp still to this day doesn't do that.

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.
- 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.

Any chance this could install through the Linux Mint Software Manager, for auto updates?
- Will mint not auto update flatpaks?
- flatpak update
  https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=363061
- i have it through software manager and it updates fine (well i have my settings to update flatpaks on login)

I'm glad this exists. I use standard gimp, but I am not a Pro used to Photoshop.

Flatpak? Yikes.
- I see we have Canonical employees among us.
- I think you're confusing flatpaks with snaps

Excuse me for being out of the loop, but is there a path towards AI photo manipulation coming for gimp? (Or already here?). Basically doing things like generative fill and other AI editing capabilities?
(I use affinity photo for my photo editing at the moment, so it's been awhile since I've been paying attention to gimp.)
- I think there's a plug in. But it does connect to an api. So you have to have an endpoint available for that. Being an online service (mostly paid) or your own service running in your machine.
  https://github.com/thndrbrrr/gimp-stable-boy
- Lets fucking hope not.
- I'm not sure about Gimp but searching for Krita tutorials i've found something about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiKR_TrMioI&list=PLOea84sp_XoHZCSErUjCoqE0Gc6pjJksf

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