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A GIMP Guide, but from a Photoshop User (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@lemdro.id to c/linux@programming.dev
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This should be helpful for people that learned Photoshop in the past (for work or in school). From what I understand, a lot of the friction with GIMP is the workflow differences, and potentially unintuitive UI/UX choices.

tldr: recovering Adobe Photoshop user shows you features in the very free and very open source gnu image manipulation program :D

my relevant GIMP config files: https://github.com/BreadOnPenguins/dots/tree/master/.config/GIMP/3.0

GIMP documentation: https://www.gimp.org/docs/

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[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Best transition for me was to go in and define my own keyboard shortcuts that matched the ones from Photoshop