It would be such a boon if GIMP and Inkscape could adopt blender's fantastic GUI

felixthehat 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A side by side screenshot of inkscape/gimp/blender for those who don't have them installed

	▲	AlienRobot an hour ago \| parent [-]
		One of the biggest problems with GIMP and Inkscape is how GTK renders numeric inputs. Look at the size of those +/- icons on the toolbar. For drawing software with lots of numeric inputs, that means an insane waste of space. Proprietary software like DaVinci and even Photopea have much smaller inputs, allowing them to create far more complex GUIs and featuring without cluttering the window.

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anon-3988 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I just want to be able to crop and draw on top of images. Like old Paint. That is literally all I want to ever do with images. What should I use in Linux for this purpose

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graynk 14 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

https://photoflare.io/ is the one I've found to be most usable. Pinta is just unpleasant to use at high resolutions and it's buggy.

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bondarchuk 16 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

IrfanView in Wine, f12 opens a really old-school paint toolbox.

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lozf an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Perhaps Gradia [0], Pinta [1], or Krita [2].

[0]: https://gradia.alexandervanhee.be/ [1]: https://www.pinta-project.com/ [2]: https://krita.org/en/

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wavewrangler an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I easily modified pinta to do exactly this. You mean overlay, right? It can overlay, draw, manipulate, and I added a better file navigator so I can see which imagery I want to overlay to begin with. My use case was scientific in nature. What is yours, if you don’t mind my asking?

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TonyStr an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Photocraft has been working alright for me. I really struggled to learn GIMP, and I haven't found any easy lightweight image editing tool that replaces Paint.NET for me before trying Photocraft. It's still a little confusing since I'm not used to photoshop-like bindings and layout, but it hasn't been too hard to adjust. (I also only ever use it for small simple edits, drawing, cropping, color gradients, background removal, etc.)

	▲	Imustaskforhelp an hour ago \| parent [-]
		There is paint.rs[0] as well which is intended to be paint.net open source alternative which works on Linux. I’d be interested to know what you think about it [0]: https://github.com/daijro/paint.rs

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amlib 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Use KolourPaint, it's a windows 9x/XP paintbrush clone with only a few improvements tacked on.

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adhamsalama 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

KPaint

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phillc73 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

GIMP of course.

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41353aab an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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p-e-w 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Inkscape’s UI is much, much better than Blender’s, IMO.

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omnimus 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

People are confusing UX with UI. Inkscape UX might be better for many people but it would be hard to argue that Inkscape UI is better - it got better recently but it's still far from blender polish.

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grufkork 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Inkscape is actually one of the few FOSS apps that is actually pretty intuitive to use. In fact, way back when I first started using vector design tools, I found it more intuitive/had better feedback than Illustrator (same thing can't be said about GIMP vs Photoshop). Inkscape really is great, but I have one huge gripe: I'm sure there's a system to it, but the file export name never stays what I want it to be...