So, I learned some basics of graphic design some years back, I quit the course long before I could learn enough to make a living out of it, but I ended up learning some basics of Photoshop and Illustrator at least.
... Well, Photoshop being a paid program is kinda annoying though, so I use the most viable free alternative... GIMP. Or rather, I use Paint, GIMP is there on the rare occasions I need to do something Paint can't handle, because I absolutely don't want to use GIMP if I can avoid it.
You see... If you know how to handle it, GIMP is probably able to be just as good as Photoshop in doing pretty much anything... The problem is the "Knowing how to handle it part".
I never saw a program that was so unintuitive and hard to use as this one, dear God... How can someone program so badly? It's like they don't know what users would generally like in an art program.
For example... You don't have a button to make geometric forms... Like, creating a circle, or a square, or a triangle... Paint has that, it's not that hard. And of course, Photoshop has too.
... On GIMP though? You need to google a tutorial on how to make a circle, because you won't learn how to make one otherwise... It's not too hard, but it's annoying.
And that's basically the issue with everything in GIMP. Once you learn how to do things, it's not too hard... But learning means googling for tutorials for every small thing... And God forbid if you used the wrong keywords and can't find the thing you're searching for, better be prepared for an hour of struggling with the program to get what you want done.
I still don't know how to use the mask function of GIMP, which should be extremely simple and straightforward to use, but I just don't get how to make it work.
I can't for the life of me figure out how to move or rotate something that is within a selection... I can move the selection itself, I can move the entire art layer, but... Moving the actual thing I'm selecting? I just can't do it.
... I ended up needing to duplicate my layer, delete everything except the thing I wanted to move from the duplicated layer, and then move the entire duplicated layer to the position I wanted... Oh, and delete the thing from the original layer as well. And then merge layers.
There has to be a way of actually doing it, but I can't figure out how, and it's frustrating to use a program when something that should be extremely obvious and intuitive is just... Not there.
Ah, and resizing the layer is also a pain... Resizing the canvas is also a big hassle... And I actually needed a tutorial to put an outline in text... Why doesn't it simply have a button for outline? Geez.
It is a program with a myriad of functions, but actually using them is absolutely horrible and you end up getting a huge headache in order to get what you want done... At least it does get it done though.
So... This is my rant after I spent some hours working on making a half decent cover for my novel on Scribbly, at least it's better than what was there before I suppose.
I Hate GIMP
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