Update to the Latest Version of GIMP on Ubuntu-based distributions www.christitus.com/latest-version-of-gimp/ Timestamps: 2:27 Photoshop Workflow 6:43 GIMP Workflow
Chris i'm a windows user as you know. I have been using gimp for almost 10 years. You did a fantastic job here on the accessibility of a free editor. Rock on man, I live the life, and you are showing the life.
Take a look at these APPIMAGES of Gimp with the plugins already inserted for Linux users, please make a video about that: github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/tag/continuous
@@Muslim_011 it was designed to be used with multiple displays, you put all of your control panels on one monitor and object being edited on another. Increases usable area for working with the object.
Indeed. I've been using Paint.net for years, and since MS made Windows Subsystem for Linux, I've been taking a dive into Linux. I need a Notepad++ clone in Linux, and Visual Studio Pro. Running Debian 10 on an ancient hp Centrino laptop w/4GB RAM with no problem - amazing, to me. Chris Titus, and many others on TH-cam, have been a big help.
In 8th grade high school I was taught to use photoshop cuz the teachers expect us students to be a success and be able to afford Photoshop in the future. After 4 years of realization that not all their students can afford Photoshop, they switched to teaching GIMP.
Nah. The linux/free software path is great and an important option in today's world but when it comes to teaching, learning and creativity Photoshop is the best choice. Software is a tool and kids should learn with the best tools. Leave the ethics of capitalism and SAAS for another class. Not even 1% of pros are using GIMP (for good reason) and although it offers a great free alternative the majority of non-pros only have a few requirements, which they can get from simpler mobile Apps. Unlike Blender, GIMP is a long way from widespread acceptance and I'd want my kids learning on an industry standard. The amount of jobs that require Photoshop skills has exploded. Then there is the Adobe ecosystem. Nowadays creatives aren't staying in a single lane and with Adobe libraries people can create a logo on their tablet and it will be waiting for them on their desktop, to edit in Illustrator/photoshop, animate in Premier or mock up in Dimensions. Lastly, I see people on here up in arms about the price of Adobe. it's ridiculous. Photoshop is $10 a month, so less than Netflix. If you are broke or so adversed to paying for software then choose GIMP. If you have some ethical/political problem with Adobe then choose GIMP. If you're just interested in exploring the less trodden roads of software, choose GIMP. Otherwise choose photoshop.
@@daybarnes PS is no longer the best choice. PS never was an industry standard! For a long time it was the single image manipulating software package that conformed to established industry standards.) Not anymore! Now you can use PS or GIMP, whatever is more convenient to you. These days there are several more graphic packages that also conform to industry standards. For 99% of tasks GIMP is as good as PS. If you really want to be a pro you should not learn how to use PS... You should learn far more important things, for example, the difference between JPEG and TIFF file formats, how to use layers, how to work with color etc. Whether you use for this purpose PS or GIMP is completely irrelevant. Don't listen to siren songs of Adobe marketing department! I have been using PS for 25 years and GIMP for 15 years. It is highly unlikely that you will encounter a problem that cannot be resolved in GIMP. So, PS or GIMP? It is a matter of personal preference. If you understand what you are doing in GIMP you need just 5 minutes to comprehend how to do the same operation in PS and vice versa. If you just have learned where to click in PS to achieve a certain standard result you are not a professional. Sorry pal, but I'll never hire you!
@@robertschlosser9423 I've been designing just as long as you. You do realise that even being the 'single image manipulation software' still makes it the industry standard? And nowadays you can use many different apps and PS is still the recognised as the standard. At least in Europe and the US. So many jobs ask for photoshop experience. Not so much with GIMP. I already acknowledged GIMP is a legitimate choice and you even admit that if you want to be a pro should learn PS. Plus I agree that people should learn the difference between TIFF, JPEG, layers and colour spaces etc. AND the tool you use for that is irrelevant. But why is GIMP any better than PS for that? Especially as GIMP still doesn't have full CMYK support. This particular video literally bypasses JPEG compression whereas PS has a live preview to show the difference between JPEG, PNG and GIF compression. I just watched another GIMP lesson to 'Turn Any Photo Into a Vector Logo' yet the author didn't even know what vector meant. Furthermore PS's non-destructive adjustment (introduce in 2005) is a mind blowing, truly essential, concept everyone should learn. GIMP gets that in 3.2. As you say, this is a personal preference and people as knowledgeable as you and I are problem solvers. But then comes the false equivalency where you suggest, on a channel ostensibly dedicated to point and click lessons, that Adobe promotes a binary professional standard. This is a key and biassed misconception.
In my university I have a subject that teaches me how to use Photoshop and Illustrator. They gave us to do homework and some of the students asked the professor how to get Photoshop and Illustrator and he replied to download it from torrent.
There are actually ways to add guide lines in gimp. There are both Guides and the Grid. Through the view menu you can show and hide them and through the image menu you can configure the grid and add guide lines
I've really only ever used GIMP to edit photos, Even in Windows. I probably can count how many times I've used PhotoShop on one hand in my entire life. Love GIMP and what I can do.
Hi, thank you very much for the vids! I'm a Linux and FOSS enthusiast but due to my line of work, I always use Photoshop and the concept of GIMP never really clicked to me. This video helps so much.
Chris, I recently discovered your channel and I must applaud you for the preparation to present important functionality and your wide selection of topics. Fedora 31 is around the corner. Please select the network install version for episode one and the installed version for episode two. I am a fan of both Tumbleweed Linux and also Fedora. I also have other than Gnome and KDE that I use with Fedora. Checkout Deepin installed over Fedora, also Pantheon. I do appreciate the hard work and time pressure to deliver an informative fifteen minutes.
Something I would love to see from you is a round up of how to do certain things from Windows on Linux so that the almost-ready-to-switch among us can finally move. I have had some trouble getting cloud storage to get Windows-like sync functionality and a couple of issues getting Wine to work properly with non exe file types like msi launchers for windows apps. If those were explained to me I am sure I would switch my final PC over.
This is would be an even greater channel if this guy could get straight to the point. Stop saying you know less and are not a pro etcetra. Get right into the topic. Love your videos, man! Keep up the good work.
My daughter was an early adopter of OpenOffice, both at home and at her first fashion design job. But she still used Photoshop instead of GIMP. I don't remember her exact issues with GIMP, but it had something to do with applying effects to a set of selected layers but not the non-selected layers. When she or her other open-source-advocate co-worker would ask about their issues with GIMP on newsgroups, the GIMP folks were rude and condescending. This was a shock to her, as she had always found Linux and OpenOffice people to be forthcoming and friendly when asked questions.
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I prefer the general design of GIMP over Photoshop, but there is one thing I REALLY miss in GIMP: non-destructive editing. GIMP has nothing like adjustment layers in Photoshop, not to mention smart objects. This makes GIMP inferior to Photoshop for anything that is even slightly complex, because it makes the workflow very cumbersome. But for simple edits, and for batch processing, GIMP is far superior, because almost any feature in it works better than in Photoshop. But everything is so destructive... Now, non-destructive editing is planned for release 3.2 of GIMP, but that's still a long way in the future. Once that gets implemented (assuming it is done properly), I expect GIMP to slowly start replacing Photoshop even among the professionals, because, fundamentally, it is a better program. Also, one should also not ignore Krita. While it is a specialised drawing/digital painting application, instead of a general purpose photo editing program like GIMP and Photoshop, it is truly wonderful and more than powerful enough for any simple edit like in this video. And it is more polished than GIMP, making for great user experience from the start. Even in the current state of GIMP/Darktable/Krita, people who work with raster images should find the GNU/Linux ecosystem more than adequate. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for vector images, as there is nothing on GNU/Linux comparable to Illustrator or even Corel Draw.
Thanks Howard, after searching and paying a couple different folks I pretty much gave up. Out of the blue, a fan from the channel, John Turner, just sent that logo to me. I took one look at it and was like this is perfect! So a big shout out to him, otherwise I'd still be using that old crappy logo I made.
Good video Chris, Gimp is a very good program. Thanks for the tips on where to find scripts and install them. Krita has layer styles, inner and outer glow, bevel drop shadow etc. So depending on what type of image work you do on linux that is another alternative.
I switched to Gimp 2.10 on my Windows 10 machine about 2-months ago after canceling my Acrobat subscription. I like Gimp better than Photoshop. There is a-bit of a learning curve, and I am only a novice user, but I've already done the same things and more in Gimp then what I did in Photoshop. I like the way the sharpening filters work in Gimp better than Photoshop. The one thing I'm still struggling with is the photo spot and scratch removal. Photoshop was more automated where in Gimp I ended up having to use the clone brush. Of course, before this video I was not aware of the scrips and I will be checking them out. You can save Gimp files as .png and.jpg without the scrips. Use the File - Export option and you can choose from an array of file types including .png, .jpg, .tiff, gif, etc. Thanks for another great video.
There are some useful scratch removal tools in the Resynthesizer plugin. One in particular called Heal Selection, under the Enhance menu. And the reason he's using the file saving scripts is because otherwise it'll merge all the layers into one. Kinda annoying if you have to make changes and you didn't save it as a project.
You say the new layout is "far superior"? You sir are wrong when you haphazardly generalize like that! When you have more than one monitor, it is nice when you can move the tools into another monitor. I even like the old look when using single monitor, but that's probably because I got used to it way back. But please, keep these coming, they have much good information.
Much as I appreciate OSS (in fact I have no proprietary software on my system except NIK), JChristina's take on GIMP seemed quite understandable. Of course, he's talking about his specific needs. Other than that, rawtherapee and GIMP rock. And seeing people, who have been using Lightroom for years, like the Northrups, struggle with it, well, kind of makes me sad.
You mentioned the single-window mode on Gimp 2.10 and how you like the Single-Window Mode. For a few years you could change the way Gimp looks by changing the windows mode. Under the Windows tab on the menu bar, you can check or uncheck Single-Window Mode.
Just to throw it out there, gimp is available on windows (don't hate me for saying so Chris), so the same gimp results would probably be had on windows too. That said great video. And loved that photoshop thumbnail pic :)
GIMP on Windows is as well supported in the project as Linux is. That kind of goes without saying though. Almost all GTK apps have Windows (and MacOS) builds. It's just a build target.
@BlackWorm I agree completely. People say that there are some things gimp can't do, yet, and that is fair however I firmly believe that this video is about gimp doing what Photoshop can do, better. That point however is OS independent so tying this gimp victory to Linux does no one any good.
@Grady Broyles That's not true at all. Gimp is using Python, which is an Open Source language and therefore also runs better on an open source system. That goes without saying. So obviously, Gimp on Linux is far superior to the Windows version in terms of stability. And not to mention, some of these plugins rely heavily on Linux library. Plugins such as DarkTable and G'MIC have more features under Linux due to some of its underlying library dependencies. And we all know that Gimp without these plugins is pretty basic.
For the vast majority of users, Photoshop Elements is a good middle ground balance of tools and features. Unless you’re a professional photographer or graphic artist, Photoshop will be overkill. PSE combines the best of PS and Lightroom into a balanced, easy to use product. It can take years to master everything in PS even if the expense of it wasn’t an issue. Gimp is a solid open source answer to PS and while it doesn’t have everything PS does, it has plenty of tools and features to allow people to get work done. If non destructive processing is needed, the open source free answer to LR, darktable is an excellent companion to Gimp.
Yeah, how text objects are handled in GIMP is absolutely not perfect since it gets turned into just an image when having an effect applied to it. You are better of using Krita for working with Text
I thought I was the only one who suffered "Pain and Anguish" when starting with GIMP, haha. I have never used Photoshop (so I can't compare), but GIMP seemed so unintuitive when I first tried it about 10 years ago... much strong language was hurled before I came to a basic understanding. I still am not all that proficient, but I can at least do basic photo editing now.
Chris, for that kind of work with fonts (beveling and glow) you can already use stock filters bundled with GIMP. No need for extra scripts :D Beveling: Filters » Decorative » Add Bevel... (untick "work in copy") Glow: Filters » Drop Shadow » set X and Y offset to 0 and the desired width Another neat trick is "alpha to selection" on the drop shadow layer, invert and select the "headshot" layer (without losing the selection) grow it a few extra pixels, and applying a gaussian blur to kll a bit the background Example: imgur.com/a/9kBQ1pX
You should check out Photopea! It's a great alternative to Photoshop in the browser. Not enough people mention it, when talking about alternatives. Spread the love.
But I love Gimp 2.8 & the last photo shop I used was around version 4 My favorite trick is using Paths and making text follow paths made from selections or making a path from text so I can do an inner bevel using the drop shadow. So much you can do from stock! I do love the separate windows. so the tool boxes would be on one physical screen and a few jobs where on the colour corrected physical screen so as you swap projects any settings for fonts and anything tool related stay the same. as soon as you export the project type in its name.xxx eg .png, .tiff, and or .jpg and it just saves it as that file type. I always keep a native gimp format around you can swap layers from one project to the next and they are ready to go....
I never learned Photoshop. I could never afford it so I basically learned on GIMP. the powerpoint style auto guides are cool as a small fix you CAN add guides in gimp. You just can't auto add them (unless maybe you wanted to make a script. What you do is Image > Guides > New Guide by percent. From there you can (one by one) add a horizontal and vertical guide at the 50% and voila you have center guides. I've been doing gimp for a long time never used script-fu. I'm 80% sure i can do the flow effects you did without it but still useful knowledge. i might have to explore them and heck maybe write a script to auto add the center guides.
I use Photoshop CS5 on a regular basis. I have GIMP, but from my experience, GIMP's UI is very confusing and bloated, and it run slow on Windows. PS has a more clean UI and is faster to start.
I sorta agree. The GTK2 interface needs a refresh... BUT you can get themes for GIMP that make it look a LOT better (more Mac or Windows native-ish) -- That said, the port to GTK3 has been in the works for years already and as I understand it, it's the current development push.
The Photoshop package takes *Gigabytes* of storage while Gimp gives you the option of adding the tools as you wish so it occupies much less resources than Photoshop. This is the answer to the cons of Gimp not having those tools out of the box.
Hi Chris, Since you are touching on this subject it would be interesting to see you do a video on monitor calibration in Linux. Yes there are other videos on the topic already but they are done in sort of a sketchy way. For example, I have a color munki calibrator and when I contacted X-rite they said they didn’t support Linux, however I think there are Linux monitor calibration solutions out there but no good videos about the options that support X-Rite tools. Hope you will consider a video on the topic. I am a avid a mature photographer that has been wanting to give Adobe the boot but have no knowledge of gimp or how ‘proper’ monitor calibration would work in Linux.
on 10:22 you dont need to open two different dolphin instances, dolphin has a split feature that will divide your current folder view into two independent ones to copy files
he is probably faster with his shortkeys and simply starts a new instance. but yes, F3 for splitting folder view and F4 for opening terminal in that folder are reasons why i use dolphin as well. :)
100% true about Gimp. It's just better (faster) If you get used to it. The linux though... Yeah, ill stay on my constantly updated and compatible Win 10 thank you.
Can't get used to gimp, I'm sure the tech is in place for it to be possible, probably UI issues. Krita is sooooo close though (once you change to PS shortcuts in the settings) Honestly would love a graphic design layout scheme for krita at some point. So so close to being industry adopted,..and I prefer it for graphics tab painting work already.Blender of 2d art, it could be that good.
If you are used to Photoshop and your goal is some basic stuff like thumbnail creation, you may use online tools like Photopea. It's design is VERY familiar
Put me in front of Photoshop I would not know where to start. Put me in front of GIMP and I can create all sorts of weird and wonderful stuff. GIMP or as it is soon to be known as Glimpse, is to my mind far superior to Photoshop if used properly and studied hard on. I'm not an expert with GIMP or with what I do, but the results I have seen people do with photography through GIMP are absolutely astounding. There is a You Tuber who does her photography work through GIMP and I cannot for the life of me remember her name, her photographs are just superb to begin with, let alone the final touches she puts on them through GIMP. Gimp if used correctly is in my opinion more powerful than Photoshop. Plus you don't need flash to run GIMP.
Well, you can script in Photoshop too... jsx, vbs, or adobe script. And there are actions too, that are very easy to make (just record what you are doing). For example, I use jsx (it is basicly specific js - java script) for saving as psd, jpg Q9, Q10... png. Photoshop is still miles ahead of GIMP, but GIMP is enough (or more than that) for most non professional users. There is no alternative to Photoshop, but GIMP is nearest thing. I hope GIMP will be one day real alternative (or even better). Adobe products are probably the thing that keeps most graphic designers on Mac, and the rest on Windows...
Funny this video comes out now. I've been using Gimp for years but I recently had to use Photoshop to make a CMYK file for business cards. I have to admit I loved getting back into Photoshop, it's still better in almost every way. The part I don't like is all the cloud crap that comes with it. I'm old school because I like my stuff local I guess.
You know you can do this in Gimp, right. Install this plugin: www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/separate.shtml After you separate the image into the CMYK channels, you get a .tif image with 4 layers (one for each color). This image looks inverted because each area where this is white/grey represents a certain amount of cyan, magenta, yellow, or black. Once you have this, just go to Image -> Separate -> Export and export your image as a .tif. This will repackage your image with the CMYK profile you choose, and when you view it, it will be the right print colors. You can also use Image -> Separate -> Proof, and select the color profile of your monitor and it will generate a .tif preview with all the right colors. It's a pretty nice plugin!
Thanks for the tips. I didn't know about the scripts before so now I have a glow filter too now. :) I used Gimp a little before, but I've been using Krita for some time which felt closer to Photoshop to me. I still miss Photoshop sometimes cuz I always forget how to smudge/blur areas in Krita. Maybe I oughta come back to Gimp. :)
Same as Gimp pretty much. Select the area you want to make blurry, then go to Filter > Blur > Blur. If you don't like the default blur effects, there's a plugin called G'MIC. Works with both Krita and Gimp. Some nice blur effects in there among 100s of other effects. It's in the software store if you're using Ubuntu, Mint, Pop_OS or Debian, or in the AUR if you're using Arch or Manjaro.
@@officerdibble5131 That sounds good for filters/effects. I'll check that out. I was thinking more about the blur/smudge brushes to be used by hand, which I noticed GIMP has in the toolbox. I think in Krita I had to select a brush tool first and then dig down into some styles for it to achieve the same thing.
I don't know enough about Krita. But if you add a keyboard shortcut to Layer Styles, it shouldn't be a complicated task. Layer styles doesn't have a default keyboard shortcut.
Is there a product that will work with GIMP with images processed on mobile devices (iOS/Android/MS) like Adobe has in a transparent way? Or do you manually have to pull mobile processed images into GIMP assuming that would keep the edits and allow for continued work?
Not having Layer Styles in GIMP like you have them in Photoshop made me actually quit GIMP the first few times i tried to use it. If you are used to those kind of functions to style your text layers or whatever, it's just a pain in the ass to try the same in GIMP. My first try in GIMP was simply try to write a text and give it a drop shadow. Wasn't able to figure out how to fast and easily do it like you can do it in PS. Closed GIMP... lol. What i also don't like in GIMP is, that it seems that there is no way for non-destructive editing (yet)?
@@mama-cg5ri It would be actually more helpfull to describe how to find those blending options / layer styles you are talking about than simply saying that they exist. Because i can't find them. There is no "right click -> layer settings" or however you want to call it to quickly set up glow, drop shadows, gradient overlays, textures and so on. That's what i mean with "Layer Styles".
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I hope the GUI of GIMP will be updated, it uses to much space imo ... and hopefully the text tool will be as good as Photoshops. My current problem with GIMP is that it's workflow is too desctructive for my projects, if GIMP get's on that level Photoshop will be ded. (btw you can use ALT+Click on layer to "Alpha to selection")
@@officerdibble5131 so it is possible to rotate or transform a text layer and be able to edit it afterwards? EDIT: I'm talking about editing it WITHOUT resetting the apllied transformation and effects because that would be destructive
There is talk of changing that name. GIMP sounds so limp, How to market it with such a name? Some suggest Glimpse which even sounds weaker. .... Lighten up on the beginner comments we're all looking for new ideas and need basic introductions to these programs. The Linux forums are famous for beginner insults. Slow down, relax, you're doing great!
Hey Chris a have a problem with Mint.I install Mint on fresh SSD but a have a two hdd-s with data in NTFS system from previous windous 7 instalation,first hdd its ok but second hdd content not showing up empty.How to resolve that problem without data lost.
Color correction is very easy in Gimp. Especially if you saved everything with layers. All you have to do is choose the layer you wish to correct and go to Color > Hue and set the new color. This is especially neat if you've applied all sorts of shadow, lightning and blur effects all over the place. Because using the paint or bucket tool might ruin that, but hue won't.
I know the 2017 version of SketchUp runs under Wine. But that's a bit dated. I would use either VeriCAD or BricsCAD to be honest with you. Google Earth as well as Earth VR can be installed via Steam. You'll also find an older version in the software store if you don't wanna use Steam, but that one hasn't been updated in a minute.
Somehow when I use my pen tablet on GIMP, the pressure isn't working at all. It behaves like usual mouse. But in Krita it works normally as it should. - Mint 19, XP Pen Star 03 For me who likes drawing stuff, Photoshop is a big no. It just don't feel right after just drawing one line. I've tried with different pen tablets and it's just the same. For Krita, I'll give it a chance. The feel when you draw a line is good-ish, the settings for brush density feels somewhat OK. GIMP, falls between Photoshop and Krita. The brushes are nice, brush density settings, again lies between Photoshop and Krita. That's why I still prefer Paint Tool SAI, a Windows only program. Yes it has very minimum feature unlike those three (basic filters [HSL & brightness-contrast], no text tool, no blending options, etc). Basically it's just a canvas, some brush, and palette. Aside it feels right in my hand, it does have features that Krita, GIMP, Photoshop doesn't: quick mirror view without affecting Undo (I can mirror view indefinitely) and free rotate canvas without affecting PC performance. (lol maybe this looks like a "promotion" of a windows program to some people, but that's just my opinion based on my experience)
Well. If it works in Krita, use Krita. Also, you can change the pressure in Krita. Go to Settings > Configure Krita > Tablet settings. Also, have you followed the instructions on the xp-pen website? Open GIMP 2.10 then click Edit - Input Device. On the Configure Input Device tab, please click Pentablet Stylus Pen then set Screen and click Save & Close buttons to exit. Since you like it more simplistic, you should also have a look at Pinta. It's more of a Paint .NET clone in terms of workflow.
thanks, I'll try the settings later. Looks like I forgot to add something: Pinta and Paint.NET is simple, but SAI can be both simple and advanced. "Canvas, brush and palette" may sounds simple but not that simple. It supports layering, alpha, color blending, vector layer (somewhat), make your own brush, and some more. It's just more limited in feature compared to Krita-GIMP-PS but sometimes limitation is a blessing.
When i tried gimp for my 1st use I just hate it and switched back to photoshop. It is hard to let years of using something and have some basic knowledge about it and deciding to try something else. That's a waste of time when you can do something else in your life
When I was a Web developer, I was given a Mac and Photoshop, but I found it did not work how I needed it to (various limitations like only being able to edit 3 files at one time). I ended up bringing in a cheap laptop with Xubuntu and GIMP so that I could do my job. I tried GIMP on Mac, but it kept crashing.
Is there any good alternative for CorelDraw? I tried to persuade my dad to use Linux as an alternative for his job, since we have subscribed for CorelDraw for many years and he only tried LibreOffice Draw (which did not suite his needs).
@@ChrisTitusTech I've got VPN running on 2012r2, but recently offloaded a lot of that machine's workload to Linux, VPN is the last piece to move over. Look forward to this tutorial
I have nothing against GIMP but it seems impossible that it would be the superior software over Photoshop, i've never used GIMP before so my opinion isn't really valid but the two main things that stand out for me is that there's no way Adobe would be charging us a bomb for their softwares if things like GIMP are just as good or better, on the other hand if GIMP is so good then whoever run the company must be the nicest people in the world to dish it out for free without gaining some hefty profit from their users, I mean hats off to them but in this day and age generoucity like that is very uncommon so there must be a reason it's free! The second thing that I wonder is how far over the limits GIMP can go, my photoshop edits are normally very complex and not even that if you've seen the Photoshop instagram page it's just filled with things that exceed the limits of skill and creativity, the posts are like a hybrid version of professionalism so that being said if you've seen those photos yourself then i'd wonder if GIMP has the resources and capabilities to create something like those? I know a lot of people who use GIMP and they all speak very highly of it but i've never seen anyone use it for something complex!
huh? Darktable, digikam and Krita is like comparing apples to macaroni to filet minion. Yeah they're all foods, but... GIMP is the only one that has *some* of the features from all of the other 3. GIMP = general purpose image editing Krita = Painting/Illustration DarkTable = RAW format "editing" (basic darkroom tools) DigiKam = Photog asset management. There's a case to be made for a workflow that includes ALL of them.
I just don't get what you were trying to illustrate here. You suggest GIMP offers a more optimised workflow but offer no evidence. You didn't even do comparable treatments or explain what happened when you ran the 'save to JPG'. How was it named? does it overwrite the original? What was the compression setting? I'm always looking for ways to speed up these more mundane jobs but Photoshop's recordable actions alone would have made this job s 20 second job. Plus in photoshop they are non-destructive effects which make them reusable. So yeah, this was a very niche and clearly biased demo. I get you're not a designer and yeah, you needed your clickbait title but as a guy who came here looking for some fresh new way to get stuff done, the only thing i've learned is you need to go on a photoshop course. And I don't like photoshop.
No. This is the first video in a series about how to use GIMP. He's just trying to show you that you're probably wasting money on Photoshop. A lot of people have no idea GIMP even exists.
@@avikhandakar but they're "non-portable" meaning if you need to pass the art between artists (as is super duper common in professional work-flows) it's not possible outside of Photoshop. Even if GIMP had layer effects, unless there was a standard for them that makes them portable between programs, they're effectively meaningless as a feature. If you sent me a non-flattened psd to prep for a press i'd reject it. The feature may be important to YOU, but it makes everyone else suffer that has to deal with your files
@@avikhandakar PS is not and never was an industry standard.) For a long time PS was the only comprehensive imaging software package that conformed to industry standards. Not anymore! For example, 16 bit TIFF is an industry standard. PS can save an image as 16 bit TIFF and GIMP can read 16 bit TIFF file. This is compatibility. I don't care about your hundreds of layers in a PSD file. It is your personal problem. More than that! I'll never hire a 'genius' who multiplies layers above reasonable limits. By the way, most PS users use it just to crop, resize and print their photos. )) And less than 1% of professionals use PS for tasks that cannot be performed in GIMP 2.10. GIMP 2.10 is a mature product and supports enough industry standards to be taken very seriously at the highest professional level.
What about Paint .Net alternatives? It's much simpler to use than Photoshop, great for cropping, merging, resizing, rotating, removing background, adding text, basic shapes, etc.
Well. Pain .net runs on Linux. But Pinta is pretty much a clone if you prefer open source. Or you can use something like Krita where everything (brushes, colors etc) is available on your right-click. The brushes that come out of the box are also way nicer.
When I connect my laptop to the TV I do not have any audio (Linux mint) Audio works with the proprietary nvidia drivers but then I suffer performance issues. How can I got the audio to work with the open source drivers? I've tried the pulseaudio -k method but nothing changes, only shows the built in audio under analogue stereo output. Thanks
ask on mesa mailing list or IRC but with nVidia usually the answer is you are screwed outside their prop driver because unlike AMD the nVidia open driver is reverse eng and nVidia is actively finding way to screw them
The main problem with Photoshop is : it doesn't have the G'MIC plug-in ! ;) G'MIC provides you with more than 500 image filters for GIMP and Krita, and Paint.NET, as well as a script language dedicated to building image your own image effects, see gallery here : gmic.eu/gallery/
Update to the Latest Version of GIMP on Ubuntu-based distributions
www.christitus.com/latest-version-of-gimp/
Timestamps:
2:27 Photoshop Workflow
6:43 GIMP Workflow
Chris i'm a windows user as you know. I have been using gimp for almost 10 years. You did a fantastic job here on the accessibility of a free editor. Rock on man, I live the life, and you are showing the life.
Um the 'bunch of weird windows' is multi window mode what you showed is single window mode
Thanks!
Take a look at these APPIMAGES of Gimp with the plugins already inserted for Linux users, please make a video about that: github.com/aferrero2707/gimp-appimage/releases/tag/continuous
If your version of GIMP has windows all over the place, under the "Windows" menu, select "Single Window Mode"....Problem fixed!
Why they didn't it like that in the first place?
@@Muslim_011 it was designed to be used with multiple displays, you put all of your control panels on one monitor and object being edited on another. Increases usable area for working with the object.
Finally! Tysm
Very practical information. That’s exactly what we need to make the final shift to Linux. Thanks so much for this tutorial
Indeed. I've been using Paint.net for years, and since MS made Windows Subsystem for Linux, I've been taking a dive into Linux. I need a Notepad++ clone in Linux, and Visual Studio Pro. Running Debian 10 on an ancient hp Centrino laptop w/4GB RAM with no problem - amazing, to me. Chris Titus, and many others on TH-cam, have been a big help.
welcome to linux 😎️
Children and students in general should be taught to use Gimp instead of Photoshop.
In 8th grade high school I was taught to use photoshop cuz the teachers expect us students to be a success and be able to afford Photoshop in the future. After 4 years of realization that not all their students can afford Photoshop, they switched to teaching GIMP.
Nah.
The linux/free software path is great and an important option in today's world but when it comes to teaching, learning and creativity Photoshop is the best choice. Software is a tool and kids should learn with the best tools. Leave the ethics of capitalism and SAAS for another class.
Not even 1% of pros are using GIMP (for good reason) and although it offers a great free alternative the majority of non-pros only have a few requirements, which they can get from simpler mobile Apps.
Unlike Blender, GIMP is a long way from widespread acceptance and I'd want my kids learning on an industry standard. The amount of jobs that require Photoshop skills has exploded.
Then there is the Adobe ecosystem. Nowadays creatives aren't staying in a single lane and with Adobe libraries people can create a logo on their tablet and it will be waiting for them on their desktop, to edit in Illustrator/photoshop, animate in Premier or mock up in Dimensions.
Lastly, I see people on here up in arms about the price of Adobe. it's ridiculous. Photoshop is $10 a month, so less than Netflix. If you are broke or so adversed to paying for software then choose GIMP. If you have some ethical/political problem with Adobe then choose GIMP. If you're just interested in exploring the less trodden roads of software, choose GIMP. Otherwise choose photoshop.
@@daybarnes PS is no longer the best choice. PS never was an industry standard! For a long time it was the single image manipulating software package that conformed to established industry standards.) Not anymore! Now you can use PS or GIMP, whatever is more convenient to you. These days there are several more graphic packages that also conform to industry standards. For 99% of tasks GIMP is as good as PS. If you really want to be a pro you should not learn how to use PS... You should learn far more important things, for example, the difference between JPEG and TIFF file formats, how to use layers, how to work with color etc. Whether you use for this purpose PS or GIMP is completely irrelevant. Don't listen to siren songs of Adobe marketing department! I have been using PS for 25 years and GIMP for 15 years. It is highly unlikely that you will encounter a problem that cannot be resolved in GIMP. So, PS or GIMP? It is a matter of personal preference. If you understand what you are doing in GIMP you need just 5 minutes to comprehend how to do the same operation in PS and vice versa. If you just have learned where to click in PS to achieve a certain standard result you are not a professional. Sorry pal, but I'll never hire you!
@@robertschlosser9423 I've been designing just as long as you.
You do realise that even being the 'single image manipulation software' still makes it the industry standard? And nowadays you can use many different apps and PS is still the recognised as the standard. At least in Europe and the US.
So many jobs ask for photoshop experience. Not so much with GIMP.
I already acknowledged GIMP is a legitimate choice and you even admit that if you want to be a pro should learn PS.
Plus I agree that people should learn the difference between TIFF, JPEG, layers and colour spaces etc. AND the tool you use for that is irrelevant.
But why is GIMP any better than PS for that? Especially as GIMP still doesn't have full CMYK support.
This particular video literally bypasses JPEG compression whereas PS has a live preview to show the difference between JPEG, PNG and GIF compression.
I just watched another GIMP lesson to 'Turn Any Photo Into a Vector Logo' yet the author didn't even know what vector meant.
Furthermore PS's non-destructive adjustment (introduce in 2005) is a mind blowing, truly essential, concept everyone should learn. GIMP gets that in 3.2.
As you say, this is a personal preference and people as knowledgeable as you and I are problem solvers. But then comes the false equivalency where you suggest, on a channel ostensibly dedicated to point and click lessons, that Adobe promotes a binary professional standard.
This is a key and biassed misconception.
In my university I have a subject that teaches me how to use Photoshop and Illustrator. They gave us to do homework and some of the students asked the professor how to get Photoshop and Illustrator and he replied to download it from torrent.
Yeah I love GIMP
Graphic design
Is
My
Passion
Without your help, I would not know that GIMP has been updated to such a nice interface. Thanks Chris!
There are actually ways to add guide lines in gimp. There are both Guides and the Grid. Through the view menu you can show and hide them and through the image menu you can configure the grid and add guide lines
guides are better in GIMP IMO.
I use the guides in GIMP all the time.
I've really only ever used GIMP to edit photos, Even in Windows. I probably can count how many times I've used PhotoShop on one hand in my entire life. Love GIMP and what I can do.
Hi, thank you very much for the vids! I'm a Linux and FOSS enthusiast but due to my line of work, I always use Photoshop and the concept of GIMP never really clicked to me. This video helps so much.
It’s crazy how much this channel has grown. I’m an experienced Linux user, but I love channels like this
Chris,
I recently discovered your channel and I must applaud you for the preparation to present important functionality and your wide selection of topics.
Fedora 31 is around the corner. Please select the network install version for episode one and the installed version for episode two.
I am a fan of both Tumbleweed Linux and also Fedora. I also have other than Gnome and KDE that I use with Fedora. Checkout Deepin installed over Fedora, also Pantheon.
I do appreciate the hard work and time pressure to deliver an informative fifteen minutes.
My must have Gimp plugins and scripts are Hugin, G'MIC, Resynthesizer and Wavelet Decompose.
Something I would love to see from you is a round up of how to do certain things from Windows on Linux so that the almost-ready-to-switch among us can finally move. I have had some trouble getting cloud storage to get Windows-like sync functionality and a couple of issues getting Wine to work properly with non exe file types like msi launchers for windows apps. If those were explained to me I am sure I would switch my final PC over.
Thank you, Chris. I haven't use Photosh## for over 14 years. I used Gimp on Windows and on Linux. So this is interesting.
This is would be an even greater channel if this guy could get straight to the point. Stop saying you know less and are not a pro etcetra. Get right into the topic. Love your videos, man! Keep up the good work.
My daughter was an early adopter of OpenOffice, both at home and at her first fashion design job. But she still used Photoshop instead of GIMP. I don't remember her exact issues with GIMP, but it had something to do with applying effects to a set of selected layers but not the non-selected layers. When she or her other open-source-advocate co-worker would ask about their issues with GIMP on newsgroups, the GIMP folks were rude and condescending. This was a shock to her, as she had always found Linux and OpenOffice people to be forthcoming and friendly when asked questions.
I prefer the general design of GIMP over Photoshop, but there is one thing I REALLY miss in GIMP: non-destructive editing. GIMP has nothing like adjustment layers in Photoshop, not to mention smart objects. This makes GIMP inferior to Photoshop for anything that is even slightly complex, because it makes the workflow very cumbersome. But for simple edits, and for batch processing, GIMP is far superior, because almost any feature in it works better than in Photoshop. But everything is so destructive...
Now, non-destructive editing is planned for release 3.2 of GIMP, but that's still a long way in the future. Once that gets implemented (assuming it is done properly), I expect GIMP to slowly start replacing Photoshop even among the professionals, because, fundamentally, it is a better program.
Also, one should also not ignore Krita. While it is a specialised drawing/digital painting application, instead of a general purpose photo editing program like GIMP and Photoshop, it is truly wonderful and more than powerful enough for any simple edit like in this video. And it is more polished than GIMP, making for great user experience from the start.
Even in the current state of GIMP/Darktable/Krita, people who work with raster images should find the GNU/Linux ecosystem more than adequate. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for vector images, as there is nothing on GNU/Linux comparable to Illustrator or even Corel Draw.
Just noticed the new to me Logo CTT - LOVE IT! Clean and succinct
Thanks Howard, after searching and paying a couple different folks I pretty much gave up. Out of the blue, a fan from the channel, John Turner, just sent that logo to me. I took one look at it and was like this is perfect! So a big shout out to him, otherwise I'd still be using that old crappy logo I made.
Same look as on 2.10 the 2.8 version had, just not OOTB - only thing has changed here is set single window mode as default. :)
finally. but yeah. the BIG change is going to be the next major release which will be either GTK3 or maybe even 4
Good video Chris, Gimp is a very good program. Thanks for the tips on where to find scripts and install them. Krita has layer styles, inner and outer glow, bevel drop shadow etc. So depending on what type of image work you do on linux that is another alternative.
I switched to Gimp 2.10 on my Windows 10 machine about 2-months ago after canceling my Acrobat subscription. I like Gimp better than Photoshop. There is a-bit of a learning curve, and I am only a novice user, but I've already done the same things and more in Gimp then what I did in Photoshop. I like the way the sharpening filters work in Gimp better than Photoshop. The one thing I'm still struggling with is the photo spot and scratch removal. Photoshop was more automated where in Gimp I ended up having to use the clone brush. Of course, before this video I was not aware of the scrips and I will be checking them out. You can save Gimp files as .png and.jpg without the scrips. Use the File - Export option and you can choose from an array of file types including .png, .jpg, .tiff, gif, etc. Thanks for another great video.
There are some useful scratch removal tools in the Resynthesizer plugin.
One in particular called Heal Selection, under the Enhance menu.
And the reason he's using the file saving scripts is because otherwise it'll merge all the layers into one. Kinda annoying if you have to make changes and you didn't save it as a project.
The way I have always put it is that you can accomplish the same results from either program but the way each does it is very very different.
I've still tried to find more tips on how to fix handbrake not fitting the screen. I appreciate the help you gave me.
You say the new layout is "far superior"?
You sir are wrong when you haphazardly generalize like that!
When you have more than one monitor, it is nice when you can move the tools into another monitor. I even like the old look when using single monitor, but that's probably because I got used to it way back.
But please, keep these coming, they have much good information.
Much as I appreciate OSS (in fact I have no proprietary software on my system except NIK), JChristina's take on GIMP seemed quite understandable. Of course, he's talking about his specific needs. Other than that, rawtherapee and GIMP rock. And seeing people, who have been using Lightroom for years, like the Northrups, struggle with it, well, kind of makes me sad.
You mentioned the single-window mode on Gimp 2.10 and how you like the Single-Window Mode. For a few years you could change the way Gimp looks by changing the windows mode. Under the Windows tab on the menu bar, you can check or uncheck Single-Window Mode.
Just to throw it out there, gimp is available on windows (don't hate me for saying so Chris), so the same gimp results would probably be had on windows too. That said great video. And loved that photoshop thumbnail pic :)
GIMP on Windows is as well supported in the project as Linux is. That kind of goes without saying though. Almost all GTK apps have Windows (and MacOS) builds. It's just a build target.
@BlackWorm I agree completely. People say that there are some things gimp can't do, yet, and that is fair however I firmly believe that this video is about gimp doing what Photoshop can do, better. That point however is OS independent so tying this gimp victory to Linux does no one any good.
@Grady Broyles That's not true at all. Gimp is using Python, which is an Open Source language and therefore also runs better on an open source system.
That goes without saying. So obviously, Gimp on Linux is far superior to the Windows version in terms of stability.
And not to mention, some of these plugins rely heavily on Linux library. Plugins such as DarkTable and G'MIC have more features under Linux due to some of its underlying library dependencies. And we all know that Gimp without these plugins is pretty basic.
What distro and desktop environment were you using in this video? it looks awesome !
This was just KDE. I have sense moved on to a window manager that I like a bit more. Harder to setup though, but with a big payoff.
For the vast majority of users, Photoshop Elements is a good middle ground balance of tools and features. Unless you’re a professional photographer or graphic artist, Photoshop will be overkill. PSE combines the best of PS and Lightroom into a balanced, easy to use product. It can take years to master everything in PS even if the expense of it wasn’t an issue. Gimp is a solid open source answer to PS and while it doesn’t have everything PS does, it has plenty of tools and features to allow people to get work done. If non destructive processing is needed, the open source free answer to LR, darktable is an excellent companion to Gimp.
Great comparison Chris. Thx!
Right on. Thanks for sharing.
Try applying a stroke, bevel, or emboss to text in GIMP and then try changing it...
Yeah, how text objects are handled in GIMP is absolutely not perfect since it gets turned into just an image when having an effect applied to it.
You are better of using Krita for working with Text
This is why layers are important
Wow, that Gimp title trick looks pretty handy.
I thought I was the only one who suffered "Pain and Anguish" when starting with GIMP, haha. I have never used Photoshop (so I can't compare), but GIMP seemed so unintuitive when I first tried it about 10 years ago... much strong language was hurled before I came to a basic understanding. I still am not all that proficient, but I can at least do basic photo editing now.
Chris, for that kind of work with fonts (beveling and glow) you can already use stock filters bundled with GIMP. No need for extra scripts :D
Beveling:
Filters » Decorative » Add Bevel... (untick "work in copy")
Glow:
Filters » Drop Shadow » set X and Y offset to 0 and the desired width
Another neat trick is "alpha to selection" on the drop shadow layer, invert and select the "headshot" layer (without losing the selection) grow it a few extra pixels, and applying a gaussian blur to kll a bit the background
Example: imgur.com/a/9kBQ1pX
also gmic.. yeah GMIC (for GIMP) is DOPE
gmic.eu/download.shtml
Man these are some awesome tips, I swear I learn more in the comments section than anywhere else lol.
@@ChrisTitusTech when i discovered GMIC i was like O.O it's a little like the old Kai's Power Tools from Photoshop 25 years ago
This was helpful. I'm still a total noob when it comes to PS and Gimp (even taking a beginner PS class).
You should check out Photopea! It's a great alternative to Photoshop in the browser. Not enough people mention it, when talking about alternatives. Spread the love.
It follows the same philosophy as Photoshop though, limited usability until you pay for the full version
it's not a "Photoshop alternative" - it's a photo editor, but it's very limited compared to either GIMP or Photoshop (or Krita for that matter)
@@mariozenarju6461 that's not true, you're only paying for no ads
@@GradyBroyles it's not a "photo editor", it's a raster graphics editor
@@mattcroat semantics. It's a simple image editor. Its not featured enough to call it a "photoshop alternative" so.. your point?
If you're on GIMP 2.8 you can combine all the toolbars and Windows by clicking "Windows" at the top of the screen, then tick "Single-Window Mode"
But I love Gimp 2.8 & the last photo shop I used was around version 4 My favorite trick is using Paths and making text follow paths made from selections or making a path from text so I can do an inner bevel using the drop shadow. So much you can do from stock! I do love the separate windows. so the tool boxes would be on one physical screen and a few jobs where on the colour corrected physical screen so as you swap projects any settings for fonts and anything tool related stay the same. as soon as you export the project type in its name.xxx eg .png, .tiff, and or .jpg and it just saves it as that file type. I always keep a native gimp format around you can swap layers from one project to the next and they are ready to go....
I never learned Photoshop. I could never afford it so I basically learned on GIMP.
the powerpoint style auto guides are cool as a small fix you CAN add guides in gimp. You just can't auto add them (unless maybe you wanted to make a script. What you do is Image > Guides > New Guide by percent. From there you can (one by one) add a horizontal and vertical guide at the 50% and voila you have center guides.
I've been doing gimp for a long time never used script-fu. I'm 80% sure i can do the flow effects you did without it but still useful knowledge. i might have to explore them and heck maybe write a script to auto add the center guides.
Thanks for sharing this. Really informative and helpful. :)
Great GIMP video! Thanks for sharing this. What camera are you using now for your videos Chris? I know it's not a C920 anymore but... ;)
Canon M50 - Still relatively cheap DSLR, but it is fantastic for simple TH-cam videos.
I use Photoshop CS5 on a regular basis. I have GIMP, but from my experience, GIMP's UI is very confusing and bloated, and it run slow on Windows. PS has a more clean UI and is faster to start.
I sorta agree. The GTK2 interface needs a refresh... BUT you can get themes for GIMP that make it look a LOT better (more Mac or Windows native-ish) -- That said, the port to GTK3 has been in the works for years already and as I understand it, it's the current development push.
Gimp runs really good on linux mint, I also use krita, mypaint on linux
The Photoshop package takes *Gigabytes* of storage while Gimp gives you the option of adding the tools as you wish so it occupies much less resources than Photoshop.
This is the answer to the cons of Gimp not having those tools out of the box.
Now that is good tutorial. I'd buy that for a dollar!
Hi Chris,
Since you are touching on this subject it would be interesting to see you do a video on monitor calibration in Linux. Yes there are other videos on the topic already but they are done in sort of a sketchy way. For example, I have a color munki calibrator and when I contacted X-rite they said they didn’t support Linux, however I think there are Linux monitor calibration solutions out there but no good videos about the options that support X-Rite tools. Hope you will consider a video on the topic. I am a avid a mature photographer that has been wanting to give Adobe the boot but have no knowledge of gimp or how ‘proper’ monitor calibration would work in Linux.
on 10:22 you dont need to open two different dolphin instances, dolphin has a split feature that will divide your current folder view into two independent ones to copy files
The #1 reason for me using Dophin.
he is probably faster with his shortkeys and simply starts a new instance. but yes, F3 for splitting folder view and F4 for opening terminal in that folder are reasons why i use dolphin as well. :)
also dolphin has multiple tabs
It also has tabs. (Ctrl + shift + N)
@@GradyBroyles Ctrl+T xD . same as browser. and Ctrl+W to close. I don't know if the other browser shortcuts work :P
Excellent video, Chris. You are at your best when you are teaching.
100% true about Gimp. It's just better (faster) If you get used to it.
The linux though... Yeah, ill stay on my constantly updated and compatible Win 10 thank you.
Really good video. This is stuff that is practical and useful, nice to see a real world example as well. We like! =)
"i shot this on a C920 webcam"
me, using a C920 webcam: *sweating nervously*
Can't get used to gimp, I'm sure the tech is in place for it to be possible, probably UI issues.
Krita is sooooo close though (once you change to PS shortcuts in the settings) Honestly would love a graphic design layout scheme for krita at some point. So so close to being industry adopted,..and I prefer it for graphics tab painting work already.Blender of 2d art, it could be that good.
If you are used to Photoshop and your goal is some basic stuff like thumbnail creation, you may use online tools like Photopea. It's design is VERY familiar
Yeah, I just ended up using Photopea because GIMP is a mess. I hope to learn it someday but pea is just too convenient for me at this point.
@@Ronit_Ray Photopea is just fine for my web developer's needs
Put me in front of Photoshop I would not know where to start. Put me in front of GIMP and I can create all sorts of weird and wonderful stuff. GIMP or as it is soon to be known as Glimpse, is to my mind far superior to Photoshop if used properly and studied hard on. I'm not an expert with GIMP or with what I do, but the results I have seen people do with photography through GIMP are absolutely astounding. There is a You Tuber who does her photography work through GIMP and I cannot for the life of me remember her name, her photographs are just superb to begin with, let alone the final touches she puts on them through GIMP. Gimp if used correctly is in my opinion more powerful than Photoshop. Plus you don't need flash to run GIMP.
Well, you can script in Photoshop too... jsx, vbs, or adobe script. And there are actions too, that are very easy to make (just record what you are doing). For example, I use jsx (it is basicly specific js - java script) for saving as psd, jpg Q9, Q10... png.
Photoshop is still miles ahead of GIMP, but GIMP is enough (or more than that) for most non professional users. There is no alternative to Photoshop, but GIMP is nearest thing.
I hope GIMP will be one day real alternative (or even better). Adobe products are probably the thing that keeps most graphic designers on Mac, and the rest on Windows...
Funny this video comes out now. I've been using Gimp for years but I recently had to use Photoshop to make a CMYK file for business cards. I have to admit I loved getting back into Photoshop, it's still better in almost every way. The part I don't like is all the cloud crap that comes with it. I'm old school because I like my stuff local I guess.
You know you can do this in Gimp, right. Install this plugin: www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/separate.shtml After you separate the image into the CMYK channels, you get a .tif image with 4 layers (one for each color). This image looks inverted because each area where this is white/grey represents a certain amount of cyan, magenta, yellow, or black. Once you have this, just go to Image -> Separate -> Export and export your image as a .tif. This will repackage your image with the CMYK profile you choose, and when you view it, it will be the right print colors. You can also use Image -> Separate -> Proof, and select the color profile of your monitor and it will generate a .tif preview with all the right colors. It's a pretty nice plugin!
Next Kdenlive vs Premare
Thanks for the tips. I didn't know about the scripts before so now I have a glow filter too now. :) I used Gimp a little before, but I've been using Krita for some time which felt closer to Photoshop to me. I still miss Photoshop sometimes cuz I always forget how to smudge/blur areas in Krita. Maybe I oughta come back to Gimp. :)
Same as Gimp pretty much. Select the area you want to make blurry, then go to Filter > Blur > Blur.
If you don't like the default blur effects, there's a plugin called G'MIC. Works with both Krita and Gimp.
Some nice blur effects in there among 100s of other effects.
It's in the software store if you're using Ubuntu, Mint, Pop_OS or Debian, or in the AUR if you're using Arch or Manjaro.
@@officerdibble5131 That sounds good for filters/effects. I'll check that out. I was thinking more about the blur/smudge brushes to be used by hand, which I noticed GIMP has in the toolbox. I think in Krita I had to select a brush tool first and then dig down into some styles for it to achieve the same thing.
I don't know enough about Krita.
But if you add a keyboard shortcut to Layer Styles, it shouldn't be a complicated task.
Layer styles doesn't have a default keyboard shortcut.
Is there a product that will work with GIMP with images processed on mobile devices (iOS/Android/MS) like Adobe has in a transparent way? Or do you manually have to pull mobile processed images into GIMP assuming that would keep the edits and allow for continued work?
Why are you using scripts to save images as png and jpg in Gimp? It can do that already from File>Export
I guess to keep the layers so he can change the image later without having to save it as a project.
This is just perfect :D Exactly what we need to open some Windows ;) You see what I did there? haha
8:03 - "Before they had all these windows kinda float'n around..."
Try this in the menu bar: Windows -> Single-window Mode
Not having Layer Styles in GIMP like you have them in Photoshop made me actually quit GIMP the first few times i tried to use it. If you are used to those kind of functions to style your text layers or whatever, it's just a pain in the ass to try the same in GIMP. My first try in GIMP was simply try to write a text and give it a drop shadow. Wasn't able to figure out how to fast and easily do it like you can do it in PS. Closed GIMP... lol.
What i also don't like in GIMP is, that it seems that there is no way for non-destructive editing (yet)?
Th33xitus their is layer styles in GIMP
@@mama-cg5ri It would be actually more helpfull to describe how to find those blending options / layer styles you are talking about than simply saying that they exist. Because i can't find them. There is no "right click -> layer settings" or however you want to call it to quickly set up glow, drop shadows, gradient overlays, textures and so on. That's what i mean with "Layer Styles".
@@th33xitus blending modes are not same as layer effects
Moving to Linux from Windows is like unlearning bad habits to really get things done proper and efficient.
Well said. It really is!
The best part of the video are the two stills you edited :-D
* Off topic...but important....plz help.... *
Is sata m.2 SSD is compatible with nvme m.2 SSD slot (in physical as well as logical way)....
IN BRIEF...
I am planning to by laptop with nvme m.2 SSD slot but my budget is not allowed to get nvme SSD so can I put sata m.2 SSD in it....
Answer fast i am going to buy laptop tomorrow...
have you googled it? also pcpartpicker (pcpartpicker.com/) has a tool that checks part compatibility. Check there.
No a Sata M.2 IS NOT compatible with an NVMe slot. They have different pin layouts.
awesome... just the vids I like.
I hope the GUI of GIMP will be updated, it uses to much space imo ... and hopefully the text tool will be as good as Photoshops.
My current problem with GIMP is that it's workflow is too desctructive for my projects, if GIMP get's on that level Photoshop will be ded.
(btw you can use ALT+Click on layer to "Alpha to selection")
Gimp already is on that level. You just have to do some tweaking.
You can customize Gimp to look, work and act just like Photroshop.
@@officerdibble5131 so it is possible to rotate or transform a text layer and be able to edit it afterwards?
EDIT: I'm talking about editing it WITHOUT resetting the apllied transformation and effects because that would be destructive
Is the glowing text editable?
hi, i am just making sure that method works with Ubuntu? thank you
There is talk of changing that name. GIMP sounds so limp, How to market it with such a name? Some suggest Glimpse which even sounds weaker. .... Lighten up on the beginner comments we're all looking for new ideas and need basic introductions to these programs. The Linux forums are famous for beginner insults. Slow down, relax, you're doing great!
Nest LibreOffice - presentation plz!
I cant find a good tutorial out there!
Hey Chris a have a problem with Mint.I install Mint on fresh SSD but a have a two hdd-s with data in NTFS system from previous windous 7 instalation,first hdd its ok but second hdd content not showing up empty.How to resolve that problem without data lost.
save is default in gimp just export to PNG ... and there is pre-pack set of script that give you most of the features of photostop ... GIMP rocks
That'll merge the layers though. That's the problem.
I tried to do some color correction today on GIMP. Not bad if you know where everything is
Color correction is very easy in Gimp.
Especially if you saved everything with layers.
All you have to do is choose the layer you wish to correct and go to Color > Hue and set the new color.
This is especially neat if you've applied all sorts of shadow, lightning and blur effects all over the place. Because using the paint or bucket tool might ruin that, but hue won't.
What's the best way to use SketchUp and/or Google Earth on a linux machine?
I know the 2017 version of SketchUp runs under Wine. But that's a bit dated. I would use either VeriCAD or BricsCAD to be honest with you.
Google Earth as well as Earth VR can be installed via Steam. You'll also find an older version in the software store if you don't wanna use Steam, but that one hasn't been updated in a minute.
Somehow when I use my pen tablet on GIMP, the pressure isn't working at all. It behaves like usual mouse. But in Krita it works normally as it should.
- Mint 19, XP Pen Star 03
For me who likes drawing stuff, Photoshop is a big no. It just don't feel right after just drawing one line. I've tried with different pen tablets and it's just the same.
For Krita, I'll give it a chance. The feel when you draw a line is good-ish, the settings for brush density feels somewhat OK.
GIMP, falls between Photoshop and Krita. The brushes are nice, brush density settings, again lies between Photoshop and Krita.
That's why I still prefer Paint Tool SAI, a Windows only program. Yes it has very minimum feature unlike those three (basic filters [HSL & brightness-contrast], no text tool, no blending options, etc). Basically it's just a canvas, some brush, and palette. Aside it feels right in my hand, it does have features that Krita, GIMP, Photoshop doesn't: quick mirror view without affecting Undo (I can mirror view indefinitely) and free rotate canvas without affecting PC performance.
(lol maybe this looks like a "promotion" of a windows program to some people, but that's just my opinion based on my experience)
Well. If it works in Krita, use Krita. Also, you can change the pressure in Krita. Go to Settings > Configure Krita > Tablet settings.
Also, have you followed the instructions on the xp-pen website? Open GIMP 2.10 then click Edit - Input Device. On the Configure Input Device tab, please click Pentablet Stylus Pen then set Screen and click Save & Close buttons to exit.
Since you like it more simplistic, you should also have a look at Pinta. It's more of a Paint .NET clone in terms of workflow.
thanks, I'll try the settings later.
Looks like I forgot to add something:
Pinta and Paint.NET is simple, but SAI can be both simple and advanced. "Canvas, brush and palette" may sounds simple but not that simple.
It supports layering, alpha, color blending, vector layer (somewhat), make your own brush, and some more.
It's just more limited in feature compared to Krita-GIMP-PS but sometimes limitation is a blessing.
When i tried gimp for my 1st use I just hate it and switched back to photoshop. It is hard to let years of using something and have some basic knowledge about it and deciding to try something else. That's a waste of time when you can do something else in your life
When I was a Web developer, I was given a Mac and Photoshop, but I found it did not work how I needed it to (various limitations like only being able to edit 3 files at one time). I ended up bringing in a cheap laptop with Xubuntu and GIMP so that I could do my job. I tried GIMP on Mac, but it kept crashing.
Yup.
Gimp is a Python program and Python on Mac is a joke.
Nowadays GIMP is a pretty decent software. It's really powerful if you dig deep enough.
great vid!
still one reason why I didn't swith to Gimp is that it doesn't support CMYK. Is there any way to fix it?
Is there any good alternative for CorelDraw?
I tried to persuade my dad to use Linux as an alternative for his job, since we have subscribed for CorelDraw for many years and he only tried LibreOffice Draw (which did not suite his needs).
I've heard good things about Inkscape, although I haven't tried it myself yet.
Man what about a video of how to set up a home vpn?
Sure, I always use OpenVPN to accomplish this task. I'll put this on the content creation calendar.
@@ChrisTitusTech I've got VPN running on 2012r2, but recently offloaded a lot of that machine's workload to Linux, VPN is the last piece to move over. Look forward to this tutorial
Here you go. th-cam.com/video/CBJMl9MILbg/w-d-xo.html
I am looking for a software to help me with screen printing, can this print in layers? That is one color at a time.
This glow effect you'll also achieve with the drop shadows, or am i wrong?
even better use the gmic for GIMP plug in
I have nothing against GIMP but it seems impossible that it would be the superior software over Photoshop, i've never used GIMP before so my opinion isn't really valid but the two main things that stand out for me is that there's no way Adobe would be charging us a bomb for their softwares if things like GIMP are just as good or better, on the other hand if GIMP is so good then whoever run the company must be the nicest people in the world to dish it out for free without gaining some hefty profit from their users, I mean hats off to them but in this day and age generoucity like that is very uncommon so there must be a reason it's free!
The second thing that I wonder is how far over the limits GIMP can go, my photoshop edits are normally very complex and not even that if you've seen the Photoshop instagram page it's just filled with things that exceed the limits of skill and creativity, the posts are like a hybrid version of professionalism so that being said if you've seen those photos yourself then i'd wonder if GIMP has the resources and capabilities to create something like those? I know a lot of people who use GIMP and they all speak very highly of it but i've never seen anyone use it for something complex!
GIMP vs Krita vs Darktable vs digiKam
Which one is best??
huh? Darktable, digikam and Krita is like comparing apples to macaroni to filet minion. Yeah they're all foods, but... GIMP is the only one that has *some* of the features from all of the other 3.
GIMP = general purpose image editing
Krita = Painting/Illustration
DarkTable = RAW format "editing" (basic darkroom tools)
DigiKam = Photog asset management.
There's a case to be made for a workflow that includes ALL of them.
@Paolo G yes. the idea being that one can connect the two as part of an integrated workflow. Not so much to give GIMP features from Darktable.
Say the PPA Link, (sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp) is not signed and apt will not use it in Mint 18.3... :-(
I just don't get what you were trying to illustrate here.
You suggest GIMP offers a more optimised workflow but offer no evidence. You didn't even do comparable treatments or explain what happened when you ran the 'save to JPG'. How was it named? does it overwrite the original? What was the compression setting?
I'm always looking for ways to speed up these more mundane jobs but Photoshop's recordable actions alone would have made this job s 20 second job. Plus in photoshop they are non-destructive effects which make them reusable.
So yeah, this was a very niche and clearly biased demo. I get you're not a designer and yeah, you needed your clickbait title but as a guy who came here looking for some fresh new way to get stuff done, the only thing i've learned is you need to go on a photoshop course. And I don't like photoshop.
No. This is the first video in a series about how to use GIMP.
He's just trying to show you that you're probably wasting money on Photoshop.
A lot of people have no idea GIMP even exists.
Love the top half of your Linux tee. Cant see the bottom half.
Lack of non-destructive editing is more then enough to say goodbye to GIMP :(
that makes no sense. you're talking about layer transforms, which you kinda can do in GIMP
@@GradyBroyles if you have to works with hundreds of layer then you would understand that how important adjustment layer is.
@@avikhandakar but they're "non-portable" meaning if you need to pass the art between artists (as is super duper common in professional work-flows) it's not possible outside of Photoshop. Even if GIMP had layer effects, unless there was a standard for them that makes them portable between programs, they're effectively meaningless as a feature.
If you sent me a non-flattened psd to prep for a press i'd reject it. The feature may be important to YOU, but it makes everyone else suffer that has to deal with your files
@@GradyBroyles Photoshop is industry standard. Everybody using photoshop. it does not have to compatible with gimp.
@@avikhandakar PS is not and never was an industry standard.) For a long time PS was the only comprehensive imaging software package that conformed to industry standards. Not anymore! For example, 16 bit TIFF is an industry standard. PS can save an image as 16 bit TIFF and GIMP can read 16 bit TIFF file. This is compatibility. I don't care about your hundreds of layers in a PSD file. It is your personal problem. More than that! I'll never hire a 'genius' who multiplies layers above reasonable limits. By the way, most PS users use it just to crop, resize and print their photos. )) And less than 1% of professionals use PS for tasks that cannot be performed in GIMP 2.10. GIMP 2.10 is a mature product and supports enough industry standards to be taken very seriously at the highest professional level.
What about Krita ?
What about Paint .Net alternatives? It's much simpler to use than Photoshop, great for cropping, merging, resizing, rotating, removing background, adding text, basic shapes, etc.
Well. Pain .net runs on Linux.
But Pinta is pretty much a clone if you prefer open source.
Or you can use something like Krita where everything (brushes, colors etc) is available on your right-click.
The brushes that come out of the box are also way nicer.
@@officerdibble5131 This appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=6551 says that only very old versions run partially.
Alex P It's been working for a minute actually codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/paintnet
When I connect my laptop to the TV I do not have any audio (Linux mint)
Audio works with the proprietary nvidia drivers but then I suffer performance issues.
How can I got the audio to work with the open source drivers?
I've tried the pulseaudio -k method but nothing changes, only shows the built in audio under analogue stereo output.
Thanks
ask on mesa mailing list or IRC but with nVidia usually the answer is you are screwed outside their prop driver because unlike AMD the nVidia open driver is reverse eng and nVidia is actively finding way to screw them
@gilkesisking Yeah I did but it says all HDMIs are unplugged despite there being a picture on the TV
@gilkesisking ystem:
Host: daniel-TUF-GAMING-FX504GM-FX80GM Kernel: 4.15.0-64-generic x86_64
bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.4.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.2.4
Distro: Linux Mint 19.2 Tina base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: TUF GAMING FX504GM_FX80GM v: 1.0
serial:
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: FX504GM v: 1.0 serial:
UEFI: American Megatrends v: FX504GM.308 date: 06/10/2019
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 41.4 Wh condition: 42.2/48.1 Wh (88%)
model: ASUS A32-K55 status: Charging
CPU:
Topology: 6-Core model: Intel Core i7-8750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Kaby Lake rev: A L2 cache: 9216 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 52992
Speed: 801 MHz min/max: 800/4100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800
3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
Device-2: NVIDIA GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: modesetting,nouveau
unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~120Hz, 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Coffeelake 3x8 GT2)
v: 4.5 Mesa 19.0.8 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3
Device-2: NVIDIA GP106 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-64-generic
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9560 [Jefferson Peak] driver: iwlwifi
v: kernel port: 5000 bus ID: 00:14.3
IF: wlo1 state: up mac:
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 3000 bus ID: 02:00.0
IF: enp2s0 state: down mac:
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 8.73 GiB (0.7%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Micron model: 1100 MTFDDAV256TBN size: 238.47 GiB
temp: 41 C
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM035-1RK172 size: 931.51 GiB
temp: 37 C
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 233.24 GiB used: 8.72 GiB (3.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 71.0 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nouveau temp: 52 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info:
Processes: 290 Uptime: 9m Memory: 15.52 GiB used: 1.74 GiB (11.2%)
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.4.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.20
inxi: 3.0.32
Use ppa in ubantu
would love to see you do a linux video editor vs premiere pro :)
i found i had to download it from gimp, to get 2.10 i still had floating windows so i had to reset in preferences to get it to look like yours
your face was hiding the layers in gimp and I don't know what layer you clicked on
The main problem with Photoshop is : it doesn't have the G'MIC plug-in ! ;)
G'MIC provides you with more than 500 image filters for GIMP and Krita, and Paint.NET, as well as a script language dedicated to building image your own image effects, see gallery here : gmic.eu/gallery/