It's exactly as you said. Different tools are suitable for different
situations.
It's nonsense to to even try to make selection of some complex things like
branches, hair,... using path tool.
On the other hand it's quiet useful for some hard surfaces with simple
structure (machinery, furniture,
I am not sure if the Pen / Path tool, you are talking about is the tool
wirh bezier curves, but if so, here is the uscase for creating selection
(and its quiet obvious one) :
Imagine you have only mouse and need to create precise selection and
straight lines - using laso tool is not enough (ie to
Great report Flynn, I'm wondering why there are no reactions from the Team.
On Sun, Mar 24, 2019, 08:09 Flynn Liu via gimp-gui-list <
gimp-gui-list@gnome.org> wrote:
> Hello, GIMP developers:
>
> In January 2018, I conducted a user test on GIMP v2.8, as part of a class
> project. User testing is
I would look here - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp - Gimp source code
But even compiling and building this beast under windows is difficult task
(I've personally failed)
Now, Gimp UI is built using GTK (btw it means Gimp ToolKit), which (I would
say) is deeply connected with program itself.
Gimp is offline desktop tool.
But there is some attempt to run it as a service from Web browser. But I'm
not sure, how much it works.
https://www.offidocs.com/index.php/main-quick-links/121045-gimp-2-10-online-image-editor
There is also project https://www.photopea.com/ that has nothing to do
