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That is interesting and I did not know that. Thanks.

I think what you are thinking of is the ellipse selection tool, and yes this exists and can be used - however I am referring to the tool class of geometric shapes which is quite common among other software. Basically it creates a vector (In most cases I think) shape with options for stroke and fill, and controls the same way that the ellipse selection tool does (constraints etc.).

GIMP does not have this, instead you have to go through a decent amount of trouble to get simple geometric shapes drawn to the screen, and at that I believe they are always raster.

Take these procedures as an example for GIMP.

https://www.alphr.com/make-shapes-gimp/

This makes GIMP difficult if you want to use it for some niche uses such as making a quick flow diagram, or a quick vector mask which can be changed later.

True, but I prefer intuition over efficiency when I pick something up for the first time, second time, and third time, until I eventually have a good enough understanding to begin worrying about efficiency.

There are use cases for Libre office writer, just as there are for vim, even though they are both capable of producing text documents. One is arguably more intuitive while one is arguably more efficient, but if I didn't know anything about word processing/text editing and had to pick between the two, I would pick writer.

Same goes for anything else, and it's also why a decent number of text editors/software support emacs/vim bindings - so that you can use the software intuitively, and then once you understand it, you can become more efficient by using modal bindings. Same goes for GIMP versus other software. The thing about other softwares in the same genre is that they can be learned relatively easily and can also be used efficiently. GIMP I find harder to learn, even if it is efficient later.

For anyone who is new who has to make a choice as well - very few people would pick vim to start out with.

Furthermore, in this instance, I do have a decent amount of photo editing experience and have used multiple softwares to do it, but even after that, the problem I have with GIMP is that a lot of this knowledge does not transfer to GIMP like it does for other software. If I learn photoshop, I can get away with using affinity, krita, corel draw, clip studio, and other software - but not nearly as easily GIMP.

I would also argue that efficiency is equally dependent upon the software as it is the task. The workflow for digital painting, animation, and photo editing are all quite different, and no one UX/UI is the most efficient at all of them. This is why most of these softwares have modular interfaces, which is good, but I simply find the modular interface of GIMP harder to use or understand versus the rest.

Haha, yes the feeling is similar there, though I think I personally still had an easier time learning blenders current workflow.

As an engineer: 1000% agree.

Seriously, why do I have to pay a value somewhere close to £1000 for a set of FUCKING PDFs?!?

This is ridiculous. Make money from audits, certifications, training, and conferences. You can still make absolute stacks from those. Why the fuck do I or my company need to shell out thousands just so we know what to certify against to be able to sell stuff?!

It's a fucking racquet and they know it. But it's either one of 3 options:

• Find someone who's willing to send you the PDF or log in credentials for a library service that has access to these standards.

• Take the risk downloading PDFs from dodgy sites you found on the 5th page of duckduckgo.

• Bend over and spread open your wallet. Because good luck getting anything delivered to a customer without it.

I was going to make a gif tutorial but I screwed up the recording and I've lost all motivation.

File, New, set resolution multiple of 1000, like 2000x2000

View, Show Grid

View, Snap to Grid

Image, Configure Grid, set pixels under Spacing to desired height, if aspect ratio is checked it will automatically adjust the width to match, like 50x50 for example

Zoom in towards center, click and drag vertical and horizontal ruler to the center using the location value on the bottom left

Create first transparent layer

Select brush tool, the big circle brush, and set size to 1000 and click at the center

Select eraser tool, set size to 960 and click center

New layer

Brush to 700, center

eraser to 670, center

New layer

brush to 60, between rings

eraser to 40, on new dot

New layer

Using brush at size 20px, click and shift click to create lines, draw a square and a right triangle in the top-left quadrant in the centermost circle by connecting points on the rim.

Select every layer, copy and paste

With new layers selected, select all

Transform, Rotate, ensure that the centerpoint is the actual center with the on screen reticle, and rotate the circle 90 degrees. Repeat process but rotate 180 degress.

Export image, you're done.

EDIT: I guess I didn't really explain Whitespace Utilization, you can use a white brush instead of eraser to cover the layer beneath.

Once you're ready to export, flatten image to a single layer and then under color, color to alpha, white should already be selected

Add a new layer, white layer, move the layer to the bottom of the stack

If you're a crazy person who wants to come back and edit individual layers later, then you can color to alpha individual layers instead.

Done

Stick a pin in your mouse cable and whizz it round like a compass. Easy.

Yeeh gimme a bit

We are all so entitled.

That's exactly my issue with GIMP. We are all so entitled, even GIMP devs.

You don't want to include a feature to draw an editable circle/square/polygon? Fine, but then don't get superdefensive nor "counterattack" when people ask you about this feature. All in all, pretty much every other image manipulation program has it, so it's understandable people wonder why GIMP doesn't have it. I for one still can't wrap my head around why this is a no-no for some people. It doesn't make any sense.

When I was majoring as graphic designer I used to use GIMP for a bunch of stuff, even played with python-fu and saved me some time I never would have saved with Photoshop or some shit like that, but even back then they always answered to everything some variation of "we are short on resources". Well at that time Krita (which was even called Kpaint) had even less resources than GIMP and look at them now.

Truly amazing when you think about it. We are all so entitled.

Almost as entitled as the corporations who want to charge us rent to do something relatively simple like this on a modern computer, and have actively attempted to undermine general accessibility to tools like this in order to profit more.

Just use the terminal to send keyboard and mouse events, you hopeless noob!

wtype -M shift "A" -m shift
wtype -k enter
swaymsg seat seat0 cursor set_position 100 200
ydotool mousemove -100 50
ydotool click 0`

In fact it's even more efficient!