Yeah totally!

frantically searches for the meaning of all those abbreviations

If she used adobe suite for so many years, it would currently be agony to try and switch. It will take months, maybe even years to unlearn and relearn stuff properly.

Unless she only uses it for some simple cropping or something. Maybe you can add what kind of tools she actually uses?

Can someone explain why MacOS always seems to create _MACOSX folders in zips that we Linux/Windows users always delete anyway?

I like that RTFM can also stand for Read The Fucking Manpage.

It goes to the question “geek?” Which then can be answered as “hobbyist” or “yes”, but the half circle makes it weird. That’s how I read it, but if you choose hobbyist you indeed get into an argument of “WHAT AM I?”

Edit: oh, the yes and no are UNDER the question if you’ve used Linux. The No on the left comes from another branch. Pfff, just woke up, now I even see you said exactly that. I need coffee…

Didn’t know the English name of this flower! One of my favourites! In Dutch it’s called “Vingerhoedskruid” which roughly translates to “thimbleherb”

That is one hell of a gaslight.

Or third leg ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).

As a Dutch guy, it is hilarious to read how many people thought this was fake. I’ve seen these types of roads so many times. Very common in The Netherlands. Discussions made me appreciate the work all our tree carers do to maintain safe roads.

Still, a beautiful and smart picture.

As a Dutch guy, I just thought: Hey, a random rural street. These kind of views all over the place in the Netherlands.

These broke my brain for longer than I’d like to admit.

This, and also because it is an unlit road I think?. You don’t want to get offroad in the soft ground here during the night. The side lines help mark where the road ends, since they will “light up” at night by the cars lights

I kinda lowkey wish there was a signature option so that we could proudly put our early 2000 forum signature banners on display.

Don’t know the game, haven’t played it. But just use one of your 5 alternative emails from yesteryear to get into the discord.

I really, REALLY hope canva won’t screw up affinity.

I’ve used Gimp all through my teenage years. And I used it a LOT. It was quite a difficult transition to Photoshop (which my workplace uses). But once I got the hang of photoshop, I realized how convoluted Gimp really is.

Half the time spent in Gimp is making backups before making an edit. A third of your layers will be backup layers in case you change your mind about a design decision. The whole design process is super inflexible and therefor kills creativity.

Want to use an effect like gaussian blur or drop shadow? Make sure you backup your layer! Want to edit text after you stretched it all out? I hope you made a backup of that layer! Want to work with large files with many layers? You better hit ctrl S after every edit, because the program just might crash on you if you make a difficult selection!

To be fair, I haven’t used much Gimp since 2.8, so if stuff is different now: awesome! And I admire all volunteers that work to make stuff better. But for now, I’ll stay away from it if I need to do heavy editing.

I always wondered if I could contribute/volunteer to a FOSS somehow with some UIX stuff, but I don’t even know where to start. Would you just draw a concept ui for the team to work out or something?

Not that I’m great at it, but man, we gotta start somewhere, right?

Yes exactly. I used Gimp extensively (i think 2.8?) back in the day, and especially text was a pain to work with. If you rotated or resized text, you couldn’t change what the text said anymore.

Another example is making a layer grayscale. In gimp it would make the whole layer grayscale without any way to revert it. In Photoshop it sort of is like an extra “layer” on top of your colored layer that you can turn on and off, making it “non-destructive”

Nowadays I mainly use Illustrator for work, so I could indeed probably give Inscape a good try. But sometimes you just need to work with pixels and gimps destructive workflow is just a dealbreaker for me. Still, it’s impressive that the team got it so far, and I hope one day it will do a Blender and become the powehouse it deserves to be.

The biggest revelation for me when I switched to Photoshop for work about 4 years ago is that non-destructive editing is sooooo much nicer.

I always had dozens of “backup” layers in my years with Gimp just in case I messed something up. I was always cautious about the order in which you had to do things. I was amazed with photoshop at the fact that you could edit text after warping, gradient coloring and outlining it. Saved so much hassle.

I read non-destructive is in the pipelines for Gimp, and that would finally make it start become a viable alternative again.

I read the first part in the singing voice of Chop Suey

Sudo system c. t. l. Disable suiciiiiiiiiiiiiiide