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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 hour ago

Off-Canvas Editing Paint tools can now automatically expand the width and height of a layer as you draw! You can select “Expand Layers” in the tool options to enable drawing past the current boundaries of layers.

More features such as guides and auto-expanding layers can be used to work in the off-canvas space!

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[–] Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 hour ago

Now do VLC 4.0 :D

[–] TheWilliamist@lemmy.world 23 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

To all of the authors below who have disparaging opinions on the UX/UI experience and or the download ability. It’s a volunteer project for a reason. If you have such grand ideas and abilities put your money where your fingers are and fucking sign up.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 22 minutes ago

So true for all FOSS projects, the more successful they become the more new users expect a customer service dept.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 hours ago

Money link donate now you!

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

God forbid people offer feedback.

[–] TBi@lemmy.world 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Helpful Feedback is fine. As the OP said there is no need for disparaging feedback.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world -4 points 1 hour ago

Declaring that the only legitimate feedback comes from people who are also capable of doing the work is not a good way to solicit constructive feedback.

[–] mtchristo@lemm.ee 25 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

Next. They should drop everything and solely focus on improving ux & ui . Every time I open gimp to try and get acclimated to it, I close it back out of frustration. Nothing is intuitive in that software. Not even the naming of the tools settings.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago

To be honest, nothing is intuitive in any complex software. Every time I open Photoshop I want to cry in pain. But it isn't because Photoshop is bad (that I don't know actually), but because I am not familiar with it at all

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

Nothing is intuitive in that software.

UI/UX is a very very difficult job. I've only ever known a few UI/UX artists that were any good, and OMFG, are they expensive.

You can't just drop everything and focus on something where you don't have domain experts. Not to presume too much about you, but that would be like saying you need to drop everything you're doing and focus on brain surgery next year. UI/UX is art. It's a very specific type of art that, unfortunately, doesn't come easy for people. There are companies for hire that work professionally on UX/UI, but they're not cheap either. Anyone can spot bad UX, but knowing how to fix it in a way that works for everyone, that's nearly a unicorn.

I've been using gimp since it was released for daily driver projects.

I've been using Photoshop for about a decade when required for gigs.

I can get around either app pretty decently at this point.

If you drop any new user into either, they'll be absolutely lost.

If you drop a seasoned Photoshop user into GIMP, they'll not only be lost but be unable to use their vast array of plugins and macros and aren't quite (but non-technically are) impossible for the average user to work on.

We can't make Gimp Photoshop-like. We can make strides to improve Gimp, but it's beyond reach for the current team. Maybe we can start a crowdfund to get a UX company to take a stab at it, but even at that we'd need buy in from the developers and it would likely be an incredibly large rework, not unlike the current one that took quite a long time.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It is essential that you explain exactly what you find unintuitive, otherwise -forgive me, but- this feedback is worthless. Make a bullet list, with captures, show how you would rename or rearrange things. Do your part !

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world -4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

forgive me, but- this feedback is worthless

Its not useless when literally 99% of the people who tried GIMP Over the past 25+ years have had the exact same reaction, pretending its not a thing its whats useless

[–] zenpocalypse@lemm.ee 4 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

How many of those who have never used Photoshop would have the same reaction to Photoshop?

[–] markko@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago

This is what always frustrates me when people complain about GIMP's UI!

The common opinion is to "make it more like Photoshop", but Photoshop is absolutely not beginner friendly - most of those people are just familiar with it already.

I remember being completely lost and constantly getting annoyed when I first started using Photoshop.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 41 minutes ago* (last edited 38 minutes ago)

It is worthless, in fact. Because it's not actionable. Read what the above user said again :

Every time I open gimp to try and get acclimated to it, I close it back out of frustration. Nothing is intuitive in that software. Not even the naming of the tools settings.

Nothing in here is specific enough to do anything about it. Imagine you're a developer, and you read this. What do you do ?

As users, we may not be able to program stuff, but we can do so much design work. Making mockups takes some time but it's within our reach. Let's all contribute to the best of our ability. If all a user can say is "Nothing is intuitive", then their feedback can only be dismissed. Because it's not actionable.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

i mean its pretty good if you get used to it.. i remember the shortcuts for all the major tools i use and it's very quick and easy to use for me.

[–] menemen@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago

This is exactly the problem they face. I use GIMP since ~15years. Any change they make will annoy me to a degree. But I also understand that getting into the UI is not that easy. They somehow have to manage these two completly opposing interests.

[–] ManaOatbun@jlai.lu 44 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I opened it, changed brush, got a segmentation fault crash lmao

[–] iamkindasomeone@feddit.org 10 points 6 hours ago

It's always the user's fault. Why do think you could change the brush using an UI element!?

[–] RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world 16 points 8 hours ago

Isn't C just wonderful?

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