Thanks, Chris! I am starting to edit photos with darktable and GIMP on Linux Mint, and this is a very excellent tutorial.
My distribution has GIMP 2.x from the Software Manager, but I will download the latest version from the GIMP website as you suggest.
Thanks a million!
@tparadox_1988 Says:
It's been a while since I used GIMP, I should give it a try again. I had Photoshop CS5 for a long time and on my new PC, rather than go through what I'd have to do to get that moved over to Windows 11, I installed Krita.
@technoWZ5598 Says:
I would love to see more GIMP videos here!
@deno2000 Says:
Why don't talk about the plugins, I have rely on it to do my works.
@marlowencna Says:
I've finally retired my last dependency from Windows.
My primary desktop now is now Linux
@mikaelbiilmann6826 Says:
It’s an alternative. A free alternative, but defo not a better alternative.. but it’s free…
@Otterbobotter Says:
wow, i got an adobe add
the audacity
@RaihanAhammed28 Says:
Do gimp support gpu acceleration
@raderator Says:
I use Pinta on Zorin Core. But then, I use Chrome and Google Docs.
@xianreiss Says:
THank you for your video. I have tried many times over the years but never stuck with it. So much to learn and I have many photographs that need restoring.
@rootkit0 Says:
What a great video, thank you so much. I'll use gimp for digitalizing my watercolour artwork, creating christmas cards and invitations. I do it rarely so a Photoshop subscription would be a total waste of money. Have a nice day!
@BellefontePerson Says:
I'm used to 2.8. This is like a completely different program now. I'd be totally lost. Why the hell do they have to change it so drastically?
@raymondb4896 Says:
Years ago, i was totally into PS. Now i am much older and also changed my OS also my wallet isn't as fat !
I look forward to your tutorial with great expectations as i have just downloaded Gimp.
Take it away kind teacher, i am glued to this tut..... i may even give you an "Apple".....😊
@alecclews Says:
Excellent Tutorial. I'm learning GIMP to design my book cover, and as I have no background in graphics editing this was the 1st step I needed
@MoreChannelNoise Says:
does it even have layer styles yet, nope. What a joke. Just use the online photopea instead
@TechWorldDeb Says:
excellent
@markp2085 Says:
I have had to go back to gimp 2.10 because 3.xx is a crashing mess. I have been using GIMP for years doing web design work and now with youtube. Its an excellent alternative to photoshop. Hopefully the GIMP team can get this latest version cleaned up from its crashing. Yes, its not perfect and photoshop can do "some" things quicker or things GIMP can not do, but it meets my needs 99% of the time. Excellent program. Plus I can seamlessly jump in from my workstation, laptops, Windows, and Linux. Can not do that with photoshop. I love the new scaling features for fonts and icons, but, running on a 4k monitor, I still wish the icons could scale a little larger. A problem of a bug is if I place a transparent image and try to place it behind a text layer, it shows it should be behind the layer, but it still covers up the text. Everytime I access various menus, I get a small window popup that says some error has occurred. I always have to press the ok button in the window and then it works correctly. Then it is slow as molasses. I did a transform rotation of an image in gimp 2.10 and it took 3.5 seconds. in gimp 3.04, it took 43 seconds. Then GIMP 3.04 constantly freezes up and crashes on a regular basis.
@kalidesu Says:
Gimp is still hot trash, Krita kills it.
@18dot7 Says:
Tested GIMP for like... 10 MINUTES trying to paste part of one flag to a selected place of another flag. To no avail. Zero intuitive. In PS, i can do that in less than a minute. I wouldn't even give it 1/5, sorry.
@kdexpressoo6023 Says:
The exporters as far as I know are not the same nor Industry standard. I had issues with dark outlines in transparent png's(I had no idea why for the longest time). Not sure if that was fixed(haven't used for awhile). Text - font's don't compare...light years apart!!. Patterns are limited or confusing. Painting is not as smooth, but if using for quick stuff, is ok. Nice to have light programs for starting designs or ideas. Be cool to export an image sequence to as MP4 video.
P.S. is expensive so even that could be great even if they had a light version where you add your own most used areas from the original.
@SebHighDef Says:
gimp is such an ugly piece of software, ugh
@1976oswald Says:
Awesome !!! Nice to see you using linux mint ;)
@emmypuss4533 Says:
As a Debian Linux Mint user, and amateur photography enthusiast, I'm crash learning the GIMP.
For my level of need Photoshop has never been necessary.
Thanks to the GIMP developers.
@tonyp.2482 Says:
Hi guys, I have a Nikon d7000, and would GIMP open NEF files? My PS 7 won't open NEF.. Is it worth a shot using GIMP?
@RM-bs1wx Says:
GIMP batch plugin no longer works and honestly, without batching, I'm about ready to go back to Photoshop. Typically been FOSS or die. But not being able to batch makes it not usable for professionals. There is an incredibly popular plugin that has been used for this for years. Why would GIMP not just work this function into the application? Photoshop killer? No. But only because of "actions" in Photoshop that allow me to "batch". GIMP had BIMP (batch image manipulator) that made it competitive. No BIMP: GIMP becomes less powerful.
@sunny_azu_red Says:
photopea is still the best alternative to photoshop, gimp has a long way to go still
@killerzane2515 Says:
Thanks for the tutorial sir!!!!
@cwli1 Says:
There's also open-source RAW image editors Rawtherapee (?v=WnUpCoOcRLE) and Darktable.
@ArthurLocke-j9p Says:
Thanks for the introduction to this update. Unfortunately, I believe it is just as unintuitive to use as previous versions. If you are coming from Photoshop, perhaps it makes sense, but if you are used to one of several other image editors such as Zoner Photo Studio or DxO Photolab, it seems very crude to me. Of course, if you are using Linux as your OS, you don't have much choice and full marks to those who have developed what seems to be a very capable image editor, available at no cost.
@ixiahj Says:
Whenever I stroke on gimp text, I select the emty space, invert the sekection then grow the selection a bit. Then I fill the selection with color behind the text. Not ideal but it works.
@i1makes Says:
gang can u also tell us about how the dinosaurs lived back in the days
@joanfrellburg4901 Says:
I like PhotoScape X but it wont run on Zorin :-(
@brandon_wallace Says:
Gimp is an awesome program.
@mr_hardy Says:
GIMP is not photoshop alternative and never will be.
@cpuuk Says:
Not too bad now.
@madfinntech Says:
I have to be 100% real here. If you come from Photoshop or even something like Affinity Photo, GIMP is hopeless. At least you have to go do things like you did in Photoshop 20 years ago.
@Chris-op7yt Says:
GIMP is indeed a swiss army knife for images however, if it's about having a good tool for handling photography on a regular basis, you're much better of using photography tools like lightroom or similar.
i learnt this when i had an iMac, that the provided photography app is how you can be efficient at doing the work to import into and maintain photo library. GIMP is not geared to such a workflow per se, and excels as a premium open source general editor for individual graphics files, whatever they may be.
@HernanFiorentino Says:
hola podrías hacer una review, de algunos de estos programas, kubuntu 25.04, kdenlive, kdeneon, ubuntu 25.04, Krita + Plugin AI Diffusión
@reisen888 Says:
GIMP 3.0 is great🫑
@Secretgeek2012 Says:
This reminds of BBC computer shows in the 80's. No frills, informative, presented by someone who very much looks they know what they're talking about.
I love it. 😁
@stephenlopiano1599 Says:
The best feature added to GIMP for my personal use was the MyPaint brushes a few years ago. I have spent a lot of time creating digital paintings over the past 20 years and find that GIMP does have tools to produce some excellent results. One thing I would put on a wish list for GIMP is a pan tool, something other digital painting programs do have as a feature that I personally use a lot, in GIMP you have the scroll bars. I do not use Adobe Photoshop yet have the same problem with other graphic arts programs such as Corel Painter and Art Rage, although Krita files are interchangeable with GIMP using the .ora file format.
@JOEZEP54 Says:
I just downloaded gimp in windows 11 home edition. I have been using it for years but now when I try to save or export I do not get any options to save as jpg or anything else. Any help would be appreciated.
@SirUncleCid Says:
HAMSTER WITH NUTS
@SirUncleCid Says:
This has been a better photoshop alternative for years... it's free!
@SergiuszRoszczyk Says:
I’ve installed it recently over previous version. I find it useful to do basic and short edit sessions I wouldn’t rely my business life on it. Back in a days I used to use Photoshop PS3 and still find myself fighting with Gimp quirks rather than being effective. I find it hard to do basic stuff like rotation, scaling, perspective, move things around and applying simple effects fast. Even so simple things as having handy color palette that I remember from Corel Draw 6.0 times.
On one side I appreciate hard work that was put into it by open source community, on the other hand this is a good example why we still don’t have a year of Linux on desktop (I know some might argue on this).
I put much more energy into Inkscape, which I also found cumbersome to use initially (especially on MacOS with strange X support) but I like the tool and find it growing in the right direction. I’m not sure if I can say the same on GIMP 🤔
@Chejov1214 Says:
I only wish it could have same brush engine as photoshop has .. :/
@Miskatonic_Alumnus Says:
There seems to be a lot of bugs in the new version. I would do some googling before updating.
@sayanta.k Says:
I was wondering if it's possible to load a psd file to photopea first and then export the file to a format that gimp understands then maybe it will recognise text layers?
@aaff3846 Says:
Do we have any free software on Linux for internal house design?
@silvianbruno7512 Says:
Wait when we're talking about GNOME the G is silent?
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