Hello,
These are some things that make it hard for me. The tool menus unlike PS are not
a part of the main window and seem to be seperate windows on their own (2 of
them) that is annoying
You can turn on single-window mode mode by right-clicking -> Windows ->
Single-Window Mode
everytime I create a new area, (layer) it opens in yet another window, as does
opening up another file. So if I'm trying to do a signature and I'm using 3 or
even four items, I have that many seperate windows open.
This isn't usual GIMP-behavior. You should check, whether you're
actually creating new layers or new images. To do so, look at the
layers-dialogue (usually located to the right of your canvas, you can
also find it by pressing Ctrl+L). When you create a new layer (resulting
in a new window being opened), are there two layers shown in the
dialogue or is it actually a new stack of layers (= new image) with just
one layer in it?
Also the rectangular selection tool seems to be on all the time whether I select
it or not. I've tried deleting the software and reinstalling but that doesn't
work
Do you mean all the time as in "I cannot select i.e. the paintbrush
tool"? That would be some pretty serious bug, assuming you know basic
point-and-click interaction.
However, seeing how you're already talking about adding signatures and
stuff, it seems more likely that you're confused by the rectangular
select being the default tool which is active upon startup and often
becomes the active tool after a task is performed. In Photoshop, the
default tool is the move tool and you have to select the rect. select if
you want to use it, in GIMP it's the other way around. It may seem
unnatural to you due to what you're used too, but it's not "better" or
"worse" than Photoshop's way (at least there haven't been any user
studies about it) and I can guarantee you, that it's just as hard
learning Photoshop after using GIMP as the other way around.
Since there will be similar cases in the future, there is something that
you should really try to understand: Despite being often described as
such, GIMP is not "Photoshop for free" or "Photoshop but not as
powerful" or otherwise "like Photoshop". It is a
bitmap-manipulation-program (actually an xcf-manipulation-program, but
let's not dive into that), that is separate and different from Photoshop
and therefore, some of the operational concepts are different from
Photoshop's. Sometimes things won't be were they "of course" (also
called: where you've been trained to expect them by your prior program
usage) should be, and sometimes you'll be pleasantly surprised by how
they are arranged in the GIMP. Switching to GIMP isn't 1:1, but if you
accept that GIMP may follow other premises than Photoshop, and that
those premises aren't automatically bad just because of that, getting
used to them isn't really all that hard.
So if everything goes right, this was at least a little helpful,
bw,
Tobias Lunte//Tobl
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