Re: [Gimp-user] Weird forum and layout

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 02/12/2017 01:02 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 11:46 PM, Elle Stone
> <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > Does anyone have any possible explanations for why different people with a
> > background using PhotoShop have such wildly diverse reactions to the GIMP
> > and Krita User Interfaces?
>
> version of Photoshop? OS platform?

Good point -whether a user thinks Krita or GIMP is "more like PhotoShop" 
might depend on which version of Photoshop they've used. I'm only 
familiar with one version of PhotoShop, and that's CS2 on Windows. Maybe 
PhotoShop on Mac has a substantially different UI, and maybe CC looks 
substantially different than CS2.

> in addition to user preferences, as you mention.
>
> > I'm wondering if people's reactions are linked to GIMP's default
> > Multi-Window Mode vs Krita's default Single-Window Mode.
>
> in some cases, probably.
>
> > I always had PhotoShop configured with the main window as small as possible,
> > and with a lot of free-floating dockers. So to me GIMP's default
> > Multi-Window Mode is very comfortable to use (and I don't like Single Window
> > Mode at all).
>
> Users have a tendency to think the subsection of the UI that they use
> most is the app.

Another good point. On Photoshop I only ever edited photographs, mostly 
starting from a raw file, and never tried to paint using PhotoShop. 
Maybe Krita's paint tools resemble PhotoShop's paint tools.

Elle