Anon has Photoshop class

- That's not the issue though, Photoshop doesn't have a native Linux version.
  Using wine to run heavy productivity apps can be very troublesome and buggy
- did they ban that stuff over in lemmy.world?
  
  Yeah. Banned due to liability of the admins getting sued by big corp for hosting. It was really fun reading both sides. Some users pissed and threatening to leave the server. Others agreeing with the decision calling the opposing users whiny and asking why did you even join one of the biggest servers then? 10/10 recommend reading the threads.
  
  Yeah because it's evil and illegal and stuff, and everyone knows that a illegal stuff needs to be banned by unrelated admins what is an entirely different website.
- Pirated Photoshop doesn't have the AI shit though which is sooooooo good
  I just get my work to pay for my Adobe subscription
  
  It doesn't? Lol
  I pirated Photoshop just in case but genuinely haven't used it more than twice so idk
  
  AI stuff works on my copy of ps2021.
  there's a limitation on amount of ai usage (per ip?) for signed off users tho
- The struggle is real

"UMMM what the fuck is that, anon?"
"it's a great open-source software called mind your own fucking business"
- Leaving me alone is free (not soybicycle free, North Korea free)

Open inkscape Draw circle Export bmp Open as layers 😹
- Why BMP. GIMP can deal with SVGs, no?
  
  It can open SVGs as raster images, but I never managed it to look great. It's better to export to a BMP from an SVG editor.
- The magic of Linux workflow.

“I don’t have photoshop”
Problem solved
- a lot of school provide ps 'for free' and expect everyone to use it
  
  I see you went to reach schools... Lucky you, mine didn't even provided toilet paper
  
  In that case, anon should have just figured out a way to run it before the class started
- It’s a joke
- Photopea or the mobile version of photoshop

you can't draw a circle in gimp?
- There's no "Shape" tool. You could just select a circular area in an empty layer and fill it though.
  
  No. The meme was because there was a bug that made drawing some circles go all wonky.
- You can, it is very unintuitive though. You draw the shape using the eilpse tool and set a border for the selection.
  It's not hard, but there is really no way to figure this out without ever looking for a tutorial.
  
  It's absolutely stupid design and more difficult than it needs to be.
  I'll say it - Photoshop is infinitely more intuitive than gimp for the average person. Sure, if you are fucking determined, I'm sure you can figure it out eventually. You can even make it work. But if you say it is easier than Photoshop, you are wrong.
  I love FOSS stuff but way too many people are delusional about the pros and cons of it. There are absolutely cons.
  I stand with op.
  
  All this time I was using the ellipse tool, filling it, then shrinking my selection and deleting.
  Ah well, I learned Inkscape recently and it's a better tool for stuff like that anyway.
- GIMP 2 is utter dogshit in terms of user experience.
  GIMP 3, the version that is supposed to make everything easier, hasn't been released yet. ^(it's been years and I have given up hoping)
  The situation sucks, but there aren't that many developers working on GIMP in the first place. Certainly not as many as Photoshop.
- It's genuinely not easy, but that's because it's a powerful tool that can change some aspects about drawing a circle.

Lmao this is the better of the two pastas

Ellipse select tool (E) with shift (and optionally ctrl) pressed after starting the drag -> Edit menu -> Stroke Selection
- Gave me a stroke reading this, thanks Stallman.
  
  Well, see GIMP is Gnu Image Manipulation Tool, not Image Creation Tool. And Linux philosophy is to do one thing well. So give GIMP a break for doing the other things poorly and with shit UX.

For some reason I do find GIMP easier to use them photoshop tho
- "Software I'm used to is easier for me than software I have no experience with."
  What a fantastic insight.
  
  You would imagine this to be obvious, but people who are used to Photoshop or Reddit complain all the time that Gimp or Lemmy are not as intuitive, as the other comments fully demonstrate.
  
  GIMP being free to just download from their site, and still being used far less (even by novices) than paid or pirated Photoshop really tells the whole story.
  The average lemmy user compared to the general public is just far more used to trading away quality to stay with Free and Open-Source Software, to the point of sometimes apparently being blind to the mainstream option's appeal.
- I am the same. I tried Photoshop and bazillion of tools didn't help when making a simple picture, while GIMP could do that with relatively easier steps.
  Edit: grammar, apologies.
  
  This seems true though, Gimp uses the same (fairly complex) tools for most thing Photoshop has an own tool for. Have to commit I’m not that experienced with PS though
- I fuckin love GIMP ngl

Seriously though, why there is no shape tool in Gimp?
- Because it's a UX mess.
  
  Because creative FOSS is usually terrible, their methods demolish the flow of an average creative worker with constant "No, it doesn't work like that "-type interruptions.
  Intuitive functionality is never a priority and never done right. If anything it seems to be viewed as sacriliege to sacrifice clean and simple code for the base instincts of an ignorant user.
- Gimp logic is a bit different from whatever logic a regular user is used to. It's easy to work with once you familiarize yourself with it, but if your intuition is trained on Windows products, you will need to readjust.
- It's like a traditional martial art, you must first master arbitrarily complicated forms before, maybe, being able to make something useful of it it in ten years.
  
  makes sense. same people who made emacs.

I stopped using GIMP and started using https://www.photopea.com/. You get most Photoshop features for free (ad-supported) in a familiar interface and without having to install a large slow application.
- I would rather eat my entire laptop than intentionally view an ad.
  
  I don't get this. Why not support the developers? No one ever donates so this is the next best thing

How much does Photoshop cost now?
- $20 a month, no way to buy lifetime subscription, $50 a month to get all adobe products
  
  Until recently their Creative Cloud subscription was $12. It includes Photoshop, 1TB cloud storage, Light room and a couple of smaller tools aimed at photographers. But it got pushed up to $20 because of inflation. My yearly subscription renewed a couple of months ago for the old price, so I'm lucky for now.
- SaaS
  The end times basically
  You can't own a copy and you rent your usage by the month.
  
  The Enshitification continues
  
  You’ll Own Nothing and Be Happy.
- It's free if you want it to be
  
  Really? I thought it's cloud based nowadays and therefore csn't be found on the high seas anymore.

Yeah. Photoshop doesn't work on Linux. Even through wine.