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Subject: Re: GIMP and Photoshop user interfaces
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 13:02:20 +0100
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On 04/06/2025 11:50, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> I use GIMP a lot. If I need to do something new to me, I just goo-goo
> for the answer.
> 
I use it only for things I haven't an alternative to.

> Tools with a lot of functionality take some time to learn.

Especially if the interfaces are not structured to make simple easy 
things appear first, and the really weird shit is buried in menus where 
it wont trap the unwary

Or as in the case of GIMP not structured at all.

Its not just gimp though. I have been using a 3D CAD program since about 
2005. Only last week due to failing eyesight and the need to improve 
contrast from mid grey on light gray by changing the default graph 
colours of the background, did I discover a way to do this, buried at 
the very bottom of a menu that is almost never used.

I suppose this is good menu-ing. Since its something you never do on a 
regular basis, its not there cluttering up the top level menus.

That's what I like about this CAD and Corel Draw,. Both expensive 
commercial programs. Its easy to get started.  Drawing basic shapes - or 
surfaces.

You don't need to be a technical draughtsman and type in a zillion 
co-ordinates just to make a cylinder.

People have trued to make the software approachable. Sadly free software 
doesn't need to be approachable.

Gimp and Blender are fantastic tools in the hands of people who know 
them., I don't think I have sufficient years left to learn either though.

Which is sad.

-- 
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community, compassion, investment, security, housing...."
"What kind of person is not interested in those things?"

"Jeremy Corbyn?"