Re: [Gimp-user] Why so COMPLICATED?

[Pete Wright <pnwright gmail com>]

PaintShopPro is the one remaining program that makes me consider running MS
Windows at all, anymore.
I like and use GIMP but not everything is as slickly automated as in PSP.
That said, GIMP is superior in many respects, so de gustibus...
I use both. If only Corel would put out a Linux version my last MS shackle
would fall away.
grins


On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Steve Kinney <admin pilobilus net> wrote:

> On 12/16/2013 02:34 PM, SirCrow wrote:
> > Hello.  I've tried using GIMP many times, yet I've accomplished very
> little,
> > given all of GIMP's functionality.  For example:
> >
> > If I want to select part of an image and copy it to another area or to a
> new
> > image/layer, and also FEATHER the edges, here's how I'd do it in an old
> graphics
> > app I often used years ago:
> >
> > 1. Select the area.
> > 2. Hold Ctrl while moving selection with Move tool.
> > 3. Use the slider to soften the edges to my liking.
> > 4. Press Enter to anchor selection.  Done.
>
> Hey SirCrow,
>
> I bet it would help if you were to name the old program you liked so
> much.  That would provide a point of reference for the editing
> workflow that you're talking about.
>
> It's even possible that something like what you are describing is
> possible in the GIMP.  If enough people like the idea of "sliders
> for everything" even that might eventually happen.
>
> :o)
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> > And there were sliders also for opacity and other things.  So very SIMPLE
> > because the prog. was designed very intuitively.  How would I accomplish
> the
> > same in GIMP?  Well, most of the time, I WOULD ACCOMPLISH NOTHING!  At
> best, I'd
> > enter values into the box, not like the result, enter new values,
> repeat.  And
> > that's on a good day.
> >
> > PLEASE, I beg you, somebody write a SCRIPT/PLUGIN that allows the use of
> sliders
> > exactly as described above!  I desperately want to be a HAPPY GIMP user,
> but I'm
> > growing ever more hopeless.  I don't want to turn on my older PC just to
> use a
> > graphics app that actually lets me get things done.  Thank you.
> >
> > Joe
>
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