A patch for optimizing GIMP 3.0+ for Adobe Photoshop users, including features like:
- Tool organization to mimic the position of Adobe Photoshop;
- New Splash Screen;
- New default settings to maximize space on the canvas;
- Shortcuts similar to the ones in Photoshop for Windows, following Adobe’s Documentation;
- New icon and Name from custom .desktop file.
https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP/blob/master/screenshots/photogimp_3_-_diolinux.png
Flatpak (Linux)
In order to install the newest version of PhotoGIMP on your Linux operating system using Flatpak, just follow this simple steps:
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Make sure you already have GIMP installed from Flathub; (for Ubuntu/Mint user just select Flatpak below the install button in the manager)
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Start and quit GIMP after you installed before you continue!
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Download the files from this repository or just click here - > https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP/releases/download/3.0/PhotoGIMP-linux.zip
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Extract the content of the zip file on your home folder (.config and .local - they are the important ones) and overwrite the files if needed; (if you can’t see the file click Ctrl+H to see hidden files)
-You’re done, enjoy it! 😄
Heal tool selection plugin
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Hey OP, please remove the photogimp[.]com from your post body, as it’s not an official webpage of the project and could lead to something like clueless people installing viruses off of it. Thanks in advance.
(Also, for those who are Brazillian, or just speak Portuguese for one reason or another, I highly recommend the YouTube channel belonging to the people behind this patch –Diolinux (YT) (website))
Now we need NotepadKwrite.
Kate, Geany and Micro are already pretty good.
I’d argue that they’re even better than Notepad++. There’s certainly no shortage of good text editors on Linux…
Kate is too bloated to fill the role of Notepad. Kwrite is lighter but like Kate all the shortcuts are different from Notepad and the Gnome Text Editor. Took me three attempts to get the shortcuts right, first because I didn’t save them correctly and second because I missed one of the way too many things you can configure.
Kate and Kwrite make the OOTB experience with KDE bad for new users from anywhere else.
Coming from Windows and Notepad++, I love Kate!
In what way is Kate bloated? You open it up and you get an empty plain text window. You type. Ctrl+S saves. It’s fast and responsive. What more do you want?
You open it you’re greeted with a list of options instead of a blank file ready to use. When you open it again you’ll have 10 open tabs from previous sessions. On the left side you get multiple buttons with coding features … and I think most KDE users aren’t programmers. At the top there are dropdown menus with and most of the hundreds of options there are irrelevant to the non-programmer.
It’s much better to leave these kinds of programming-centric features out of the default text editor. The programmers know how to install something better.
I’m not saying Kate shouldn’t exist, nor that it shouldn’t be installed by default. It just shouldn’t be the default.
I think this may be a configuration issue. I suspect you may have Kate set up very differently from the way I have it.
When I open Kate, I’m greeted with a blank file, ready to use.
When I open it again… I’m greeted with a blank file, ready to use.
On the left side I have four icons that I largely ignore except for the top one which is handy if I have a lot of files open.
At the bottom is the status bar. I may be allowing my privilege to show a little here, but with a 1080p screen, I can afford to lose 50 or so pixels to that.
At the top there’s New, Open, Save, Save As, Undo, and Redo.
I’m not saying your configuration of Kate is bad. I’m not even going to claim that my configuration is the default, because I’ve used it for over a year and a half now and I don’t know what the default configuration looks like. What I am saying is that your experience and my experience do not align.
krita is another foss editor
Of the 2, I’ve come to prefer Krita. Acly replaces most of Photoshop’s generative tools cleanly and improves upon them with features like pose vectors and live mode.
Eww “generative” AI get that shit away from me
Krita is an Illustrator replacement not a Photoshop replacement.
It is my understanding that Kriita is a raster art program, while Illustrator is a vector art program. Inkscape is a vector art program.
While that is an important distinction. It still needs to be said that Krita is a drawing program like Inkscape and Illustrator not a photo editing program like GIMP or Photoshop.
Yeah, that’s kind of a thing; the Adobe suite kind of doesn’t have a raster drawing program, Photoshop gets used for that but Photoshop is meant to be a photo editor.
A “digital artist” or “digital painter” will want to use Krita, a “graphic artist” designing logos or signage is gonna want Inkscape, and people wanting to lie via photograph want GIMP.
Vanilla GIMP has superior UX compared to Photoshop imo
Agreeable, but this patch is useful for people coming from photoshop, especially the shortcuts. The muscle memory is hard to fix 😙
The muscle memory is hard to fix
Also this is software, we should celebrate and embrace the fact that the same tool can be customized to look and be organized differently to maximally ease users into learning it. This is one of the super powers of software!
I’ll take 10 of whatever you’re smoking because it’s obviously the good shit
