A patch for optimizing GIMP 3.0+ for Adobe Photoshop users, including features like:
- Tool organization to mimic the position of Adobe Photoshop;
- New Splash Screen;
- New default settings to maximize space on the canvas;
- Shortcuts similar to the ones in Photoshop for Windows, following Adobe’s Documentation;
- New icon and Name from custom .desktop file.
https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP/blob/master/screenshots/photogimp_3_-_diolinux.png
Flatpak (Linux)
In order to install the newest version of PhotoGIMP on your Linux operating system using Flatpak, just follow this simple steps:
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Make sure you already have GIMP installed from Flathub; (for Ubuntu/Mint user just select Flatpak below the install button in the manager)
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Start and quit GIMP after you installed before you continue!
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Download the files from this repository or just click here - > https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP/releases/download/3.0/PhotoGIMP-linux.zip
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Extract the content of the zip file on your home folder (.config and .local - they are the important ones) and overwrite the files if needed; (if you can’t see the file click Ctrl+H to see hidden files)
-You’re done, enjoy it! 😄
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I’m glad this exists. I use standard gimp, but I am not a Pro used to Photoshop.
Excuse me for being out of the loop, but is there a path towards AI photo manipulation coming for gimp? (Or already here?). Basically doing things like generative fill and other AI editing capabilities?
(I use affinity photo for my photo editing at the moment, so it’s been awhile since I’ve been paying attention to gimp.)
I think there’s a plug in. But it does connect to an api. So you have to have an endpoint available for that. Being an online service (mostly paid) or your own service running in your machine.
I’m not sure about Gimp but searching for Krita tutorials i’ve found something about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiKR_TrMioI&list=PLOea84sp_XoHZCSErUjCoqE0Gc6pjJksf
Now we need NotepadKwrite.
What about https://notepadqq.com/ ?
Seems decent. Presumably has the Windows shortcut scheme, seems theme-able, though that it has sessions and tabs makes it a bit too bloated to really be the same as Notepad.
It’s copying Notepad++.
Kate, Geany and Micro are already pretty good.
I’d argue that they’re even better than Notepad++. There’s certainly no shortage of editors on Linux…
Kate is too bloated to fill the role of Notepad. Kwrite is lighter but like Kate all the shortcuts are different from Notepad and the Gnome Text Editor. Took me three attempts to get the shortcuts right, first because I didn’t save them correctly and second because I missed one of the way too many things you can configure.
Kate and Kwrite make the OOTB experience with KDE bad for new users from anywhere else.
In what way is Kate bloated? You open it up and you get an empty plain text window. You type. Ctrl+S saves. It’s fast and responsive. What more do you want?
You open it you’re greeted with a list of options instead of a blank file ready to use. When you open it again you’ll have 10 open tabs from previous sessions. On the left side you get multiple buttons with coding features … and I think most KDE users aren’t programmers. At the top there are dropdown menus with and most of the hundreds of options there are irrelevant to the non-programmer.
It’s much better to leave these kinds of programming-centric features out of the default text editor. The programmers know how to install something better.
I’m not saying Kate shouldn’t exist, nor that it shouldn’t be installed by default. It just shouldn’t be the default.
Coming from Windows and Notepad++, I love Kate!
I used both Notepad and Notepad++ on Windows, then changed to Linux Mint and used the GNOME text editor which was the perfect middle-ground. Then I changed to KDE and I got hit with the abomination that is Kate.
Is Kate bloated? I’ve never noticed any slowness from it.
It’s not bloated due to speed, but complexity. It has too many features to learn and things like session restore and multiple tabs means interacting with it requires more clicks or keyboard shortcuts. It’s not a good substitute for Notepad or GNOME Text Editor.
That’s because Kate is an IDE, not a note taking app. KWrite is the text editor
shoutout to diolinux! dude is doing a lot of heavy lifting to help out new linux users over in brazil. and photogimp is quite useful everywhere.
True. I don’t watch him myself, but I enjoy seeing how he’s managing to get more exposure to linux around here
krita is another foss editor
Of the 2, I’ve come to prefer Krita. Acly replaces most of Photoshop’s generative tools cleanly and improves upon them with features like pose vectors and live mode.
Krita is an Illustrator replacement not a Photoshop replacement.
If I’m not mistaken, illustrator is vector based, krita is pixel based. So drawing-wise, krita is closer to Photoshop than illustrator.
Krita can do some vector stuff, but you’re right, it’s better suited for raster workflows. Inkscape would be the Illustrator equivalent.
It is my understanding that Kriita is a raster art program, while Illustrator is a vector art program. Inkscape is a vector art program.
While that is an important distinction. It still needs to be said that Krita is a drawing program like Inkscape and Illustrator not a photo editing program like GIMP or Photoshop.
Yeah, that’s kind of a thing; the Adobe suite kind of doesn’t have a raster drawing program, Photoshop gets used for that but Photoshop is meant to be a photo editor.
A “digital artist” or “digital painter” will want to use Krita, a “graphic artist” designing logos or signage is gonna want Inkscape, and people wanting to lie via photograph want GIMP.
As always every person’s workflow will be their own. I’m honestly not sure what you are arguing.
Well, I’ll put it to you this way: If I hire a graphic artist to design a logo for my company, and they turn in a .png they drew in Photoshop, GIMP or Krita, they’re fired. Because I’m going to have my logo on my website, printed on business cards, on key fobs, on the side of work trucks, and painted on the side of buildings. I need a four color variant, a black and white variant and an outline variant, and they all need to work when printed at any scale. Raster art can’t do that. “Hey, can you plasma cut my company logo out of stainless?” “Send over the file.” “…what the fuck is this?”
Hell just having it in .svg format rather than .ai format is gonna be a problem, because Adobe Illustrator is a proprietary industry standard. But I mean, the rest of society is dying, why shouldn’t graphic arts also have the disease?
Nah, I use krita for everything Ive used photoshop for over the decades. It has a lot of the same exact filters and ui conventions etc of creative suite era photoshop.
Krita is missing one feature that I rely on often - setting the white point in the levels tool.
Krita should letcha set the white point in the levels tool. But it won’t letcha pick white with the eyedropper, which is a notable omission.
Yeah, that’s the problem I have - it’s something I end up doing on an awful lot of photos. I need that tool.
At it’s heart, Krita is a drawing program with a few concessions to photo editing/manipulation. Whereas Gimp is a photo editing software with a few concessions to drawing.
Unless Krita decides to go the full adobe route and try to do both (which I doubt will ever happen), a feature like setting a white point (or any feature that isn’t solely useful for photography but not drawing) will ever be in it.
People making the comparison as though Gimp and Krita are both trying to do the same thing are utterly exhausting.
Thank you. Works well. I’m much happier with the interface I used for over 30 years in Photoshop, it’s helpful to have that emulated somewhat in GIMP.
I also tracked down how to set the scroll wheel to zoom without the need for the Ctrl key, which was another annoyance. I’ve tried before to discover this, but failed. Maybe I was looking at the official documentation, which could use some work. Anyway, here’s how to get the scroll wheel to zoom without the Ctrl key:
To save anyone from having to watch a video:
Edit > Preferences > Input Devices > Input Controllers > Main Mouse Wheel
In this menu, double-click “Scroll Up”, and select
view-zoom-in-accel. Then do the same to “Scroll Down” with the valueview-zoom-out-accel.Just did that, thanks👌.
btw the comand x me was just :
view-zoom-in
view-zoom-out
if this improves how gimp handles fonts I’d use it.
I do not think it impacts that. Have you used GIMP3? Way better text handling.
it’s not though. I just tried it and you can’t highlight text and then scroll through fonts. you still need to know specifically what font you want or know all the fonts installed on your system. Unlike photoshop where you can highlight text and then scroll through the fonts you have installed which will change the highlighted text to whatever font on the fly. Gimp still to this day doesn’t do that.
Not in the popup dialog, but in the text tool properties (on the left under the tools after you select the tool). You can scroll through the fonts there and your selected font will apply to the currently selected text.
My biggest pet peeve is having to scroll past 5000 versions of Noto font.
Any chance this could install through the Linux Mint Software Manager, for auto updates?
Will mint not auto update flatpaks?
flatpak updatei have it through software manager and it updates fine (well i have my settings to update flatpaks on login)
Vanilla GIMP has superior UX compared to Photoshop imo
Hell to the nawww
I’ll take 10 of whatever you’re smoking because it’s obviously the good shit
Lol. I don’t need drugs, I’m bad tripping by default
As someone with no PS experience or other baggage weighing me down, I find the default UI to be insanely unintuitive. Im not even sure what the panels on the right or bottom are for, the left toolbar panel randomly disappears on me occasionally and I can never figure out how to get it back without closing and reopening GIMP. Things like Crop don’t seem to do anything obvious. Painting with the brush doesn’t work unless you first use the selection tool to draw a box around the area you want to use the brush. Etc, etc, etc. Some of this is obviously just because I’m a novice, and I manage to fumble my way through things, but at the same time it could be drastically simplified for simple tasks. It feels like a tool that was built for people who already knew how to use it.
I highly recommend you watch one of the free video courses, from the beginning, on youtube.
GIMP is a really sophisticated piece of software designed for maximum technical control and flexibility. If you can dedicate a few hours to learning it you can do basically anything, for free, forever. If you only need to do basic stuff it might be worth looking at something else like Tux Paint for example, which is faster to pick up. It also has sound effects and is great fun.
But the point they’re making is that other editors are intuitive, and don’t need a video tutorial
This is just wrong. I love foss and the effort put into gimp, but there are so many little ux things that it gets wrong.
The big one for me is non destructive resizing of pasted objects. Photoshop puts the little drag handles on them allowing for resizing, the top middle one allows you to rotate, holding the shift key locks proportions etc, all right away after pasting.
On gimp you can open a menu and specify the height and width, or you can click shift + s, which kind of works like Photoshops but is somehow clunkier & destructive when shrinking.
I also really miss smart objects and the universal tool options menu (not sure what it’s called but it lives on the top of the canvas on PS and gives you all the relevant options for whatever tool you are using. I’m sure gimp has an equivalent but out of the box I find it much more correct and confusing.
Agreeable, but this patch is useful for people coming from photoshop, especially the shortcuts. The muscle memory is hard to fix 😙
The muscle memory is hard to fix
Also this is software, we should celebrate and embrace the fact that the same tool can be customized to look and be organized differently to maximally ease users into learning it. This is one of the super powers of software!
Preach. My key bindings followed me from Avid to FCP to Premiere. Still hittin H for RaHzor.
I agree. I transitioned to GIMP on my own hardware a couple of years ago but still have to use Photoshop once a week for work.
Panning and zooming - a massive part of graphics UX - is miles better in GIMP for example and makes PS look primitive by comparison.
now that is one VERY controversial and brave opinion. I admire you for it.
Really? I don’t think Photoshop is any better than GIMP. It’s slow, complicated and adobe cloud.
