Re: [Gimp-gui] truly astonished by gimp

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 2/19/19 6:25 PM, martin_amor uk2 net wrote:
> people, i really want to be polite but....
>
> maybe this is an age thing - i am quite old!! - but....
>
> does nobody out there realise how unbelievably unfriendly this program
> (GIMP) is??
>
> the basic screen is as cluttered as the great Pacific garbage patch.
>
> Messages pop up all the time; none of them is in anything close to
> English.
>
> Please don't tell me to read faqs help files, whatever. It's too
> COMPLICATED.
>
> Is there such a thing as an idiot's guide to using this nightmare
> program. It is recommended by lots of people! Maybe it is really great,
> but do you have be a total utter code-chomping geek to even start to use
> this?
>
> Really sorry, don't want to offend anybody, just utterly bewildered and
> disappointed.

I used to use Corel PhotoPaint, then PhotoShop, and thought both of them 
were very intuitive. Then I switched to GIMP and thought GIMP was very 
similar.

But even after several years of using GIMP, there was a lot of stuff 
that I didn't even know existed, much less knew how to find and use.

Reading the first chapter of "The Book of GIMP" - and trying each and 
every item mentioned in the book (simply reading isn't enough to 
actually learn) helped a lot. I wrote a review here: 
https://ninedegreesbelow.com/photography/book-of-gimp.html

Unfortunately The Book of GIMP was written for GIMP 2.8, my little 
review is based on GIMP 2.9, and here we are now on GIMP 2.10. But a lot 
of stuff is still the same. So I'd really recommend finding The Book of 
GIMP or similar manual to read at least the introductory chapters.

I'm sure other people on this list have other good introductory material 
on GIMP that they are familiar with and can recommend.

Best,
Elle Stone
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Color management and free/libre photography