Re: [Gimp-user] What happened to Gimp?
Hi Belleo, do you remember which version of GIMP you used on the previous systems you had? The latest stable GIMP has been in version 2.8.x since 2.8.0 was released around 2012 - three years ago (see https://github.com/GNOME/gimp/commits/master/NEWS ), and not too much changed in the UI there. Regards, Shlomi Fish On Thu, 01 Oct 2015 17:09:55 +0200 Belleo wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Sorry if this is a rant. I've been on the brink of pulling all my hairs out > over the last couple weeks. > > So I've been a heavy gimp user for years. And I have developed some amazing > graphics with this software. Loved it, preached about it and swore by it. > > However, I recently purchased the latest Macbook Pro, OS Yosemite, and I feel > like my design world has been shattered. > > The interface of the latest GIMP installed has been anything but pleasant. It > looks and functions very clunky. Everything seems so much more complicated. > For example, adding text has become a pain. There is a static box that hovers > over the text as you type and it is so annoying. It is painfully difficult to > move the text box around to your desired location, right now I have to drag > the edges out to move the text box. > > To top all of this off, all my exported images come out blurry and distorted. > Is there a way I can get my old gimp back??? My livelihood depends on me > creating beautiful graphics and I am not ready to fork over thousands of > dollars for Adobe. > > -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ First stop for Perl beginners - http://perl-begin.org/ The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. — http://perldoc.perl.org/perl.html Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] What happened to Gimp?
On 01/10/15 17:09, Belleo wrote: Hi everyone, Sorry if this is a rant. I've been on the brink of pulling all my hairs out over the last couple weeks. So I've been a heavy gimp user for years. And I have developed some amazing graphics with this software. Loved it, preached about it and swore by it. However, I recently purchased the latest Macbook Pro, OS Yosemite, and I feel like my design world has been shattered. By Yosemite? The interface of the latest GIMP installed has been anything but pleasant. It looks and functions very clunky. Everything seems so much more complicated. For example, adding text has become a pain. There is a static box that hovers over the text as you type and it is so annoying. This is the on-canvas text editor. You eventually get used to it, because you can do things a lot faster with it once you know how to use it. In particular, you are no longer limited to one font/size/spacing per text layer. It is painfully difficult to move the text box around to your desired location, right now I have to drag the edges out to move the text box. For me (Linux), Alt-Control (this could be a different key combo on OSX) while in the text editor elicits the "Move" cross pointer and lets me move the text box around without leaving the text tool. To top all of this off, all my exported images come out blurry and distorted. Is there a way I can get my old gimp back??? My livelihood depends on me creating beautiful graphics and I am not ready to fork over thousands of dollars for Adobe. What format do you export in? What are your settings? How are you checking the images? On some sites images are rescaled on the server if they aren't the exact required size, or the HTML/CSS of the page shoehorns them to some specific size, and the on-the-fly rescaling by the browser makes them distorted and blurry. (and blur is even more noticeable if the rescaling is on a few pixels, and even more so if the image contains text) ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] What happened to Gimp?
Can't really help with Yosemite—appropriately named after than varmint, Yosemite Sam. The simplest solution: can you get a copy of OS 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) and install that? You'll have to reformat a partition to do this, then you can boot to either OS version. I do all my work in 10.6.8, only using The Varmint partition when I need secure connections to the outside world. I hope someone else has a better solution, but I know this one will work, even if it is a PITN/A/H/everywhere else to implement, as I know from experience. Ross On Oct 1, 2015, at 10:09 AM, Belleo wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Sorry if this is a rant. I've been on the brink of pulling all my hairs out > over > the last couple weeks. > > So I've been a heavy gimp user for years. And I have developed some amazing > graphics with this software. Loved it, preached about it and swore by it. > > However, I recently purchased the latest Macbook Pro, OS Yosemite, and I feel > like my design world has been shattered. > > The interface of the latest GIMP installed has been anything but pleasant. It > looks and functions very clunky. Everything seems so much more complicated. > For > example, adding text has become a pain. There is a static box that hovers over > the text as you type and it is so annoying. It is painfully difficult to move > the text box around to your desired location, right now I have to drag the > edges > out to move the text box. > > To top all of this off, all my exported images come out blurry and distorted. > Is > there a way I can get my old gimp back??? My livelihood depends on me creating > beautiful graphics and I am not ready to fork over thousands of dollars for > Adobe. > > > -- > Belleo (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) > ___ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] What happened to Gimp?
2 окт. 2015 г. 18:40 пользователь "Belleo" написал: > There is a static box that hovers over > the text as you type and it is so annoying. It is painfully difficult to move > the text box around to your desired location, What is painful about using the Move tool? Doesn't it work for you? > To top all of this off, all my exported images come out blurry and distorted. Please post an example. Alex ___ gimp-user-list mailing list List address:gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] What happened to GIMP 2.6?
On 12/19/2011 4:47 AM, Robert Duffield wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to switch from PC to iMac and having all sorts of trouble. > Last night I downloaded a copy of GIMP 2.6 and had it running on my iMac. It seemed > to come with some other application called "X11" which I can still see in Finder today but can't work out what it does. However I can't find any trace of GIMP 2.6. Last night it appeared to be on a virtual external drive, from which I couldn't create a shortcut on the desktop. Today it's vanished. Can anyone help me out here? Is there some part of the install that I've missed? I saw your post when you first posted it, but I'd hoped someone far more knowledgeable would post a reply regarding X11. And, I'm not that expert. lol I couldn't get Gimp or Inkscape to run on my Mac. Both apps require X11. I got help at the following locations: http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/News/News.html http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo2 http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki I would start with the lists.apple.com, that's where I got the answer to my problem. Apparently, there is some relationship between X11 and Xquartz, but I don't understand it at all. Good luck. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.6.8 Firefox 8.0.1 Thunderbird 8.0 LibreOffice 3.3.4 ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] What happened to GIMP 2.6?
Hi, if you want to habe more backgroung: MacIS sets up in Linux. X11 comes from UNIX-World. If you ever heard the expression X-Server, X11 is your friend. Enjoy it. Merry Christmas Bernd Bettina schrieb: > Hi! > > GIMP needs a platform on the Mac called X11. Thats the usual way how GIMP > works on MAC. > > You'll should find a GIMP icon in your program folder (in the finder). > > The virtual external drive is also a normal thing and appears everytime you > install any program on your mac. > > Just get to know to your new environment and you will see that this are not > GIMP specific questions but Mac-questions ;) > > enjoy, > t. > > >> Von: Robert Duffield >> Datum: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:47:23 +1100 >> An: gimp-users >> Betreff: [Gimp-user] What happened to GIMP 2.6? >> >> Hi all, I'm trying to switch from PC to iMac and having all sorts of trouble. >> Last night I downloaded a copy of GIMP 2.6 and had it running on my iMac. It >> seemed to come with some other application called "X11" which I can still see >> in Finder today but can't work out what it does. However I can't find any >> trace of GIMP 2.6. Last night it appeared to be on a virtual external drive, >> from which I couldn't create a shortcut on the desktop. Today it's vanished. >> Can anyone help me out here? Is there some part of the install that I've >> missed? >> ___ >> gimp-user-list mailing list >> gimp-user-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list >> >> > > > ___ > gimp-user-list mailing list > gimp-user-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
Re: [Gimp-user] What happened to GIMP 2.6?
Hi! GIMP needs a platform on the Mac called X11. Thats the usual way how GIMP works on MAC. You'll should find a GIMP icon in your program folder (in the finder). The virtual external drive is also a normal thing and appears everytime you install any program on your mac. Just get to know to your new environment and you will see that this are not GIMP specific questions but Mac-questions ;) enjoy, t. > Von: Robert Duffield > Datum: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:47:23 +1100 > An: gimp-users > Betreff: [Gimp-user] What happened to GIMP 2.6? > > Hi all, I'm trying to switch from PC to iMac and having all sorts of trouble. > Last night I downloaded a copy of GIMP 2.6 and had it running on my iMac. It > seemed to come with some other application called "X11" which I can still see > in Finder today but can't work out what it does. However I can't find any > trace of GIMP 2.6. Last night it appeared to be on a virtual external drive, > from which I couldn't create a shortcut on the desktop. Today it's vanished. > Can anyone help me out here? Is there some part of the install that I've > missed? > ___ > gimp-user-list mailing list > gimp-user-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > ___ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
