1 May 2002 Milambar   » (Apprentice)

A tirade on GIMP

I recently needed to make a nice little banner image for a webpage I was working on. No problem, I'll just use the GIMP. Hmmm...

  • Crop to selection... Doesnt exist...
    Tools->Transform->Crop and Resize.. This looks like it!... Nope, did nothing... Basically the only way I found to crop an image to the selection, is to copy the selection to a new image. A bit fiddly.
  • Layer->Add stroke...Doesnt exist...
Lets end here... The GIMP in my opinion, sucks. It has no tools that work. It takes... 5 minutes for my Linux install to power down cleanly, another 2 for windows to boot up. 1 minute to get the effect I want in Adobe Photoshop (that was seemingly impossible in GIMP), followed by 1 minute to shut down windows, and 10 to reboot Linux.

Right now, I am very disillusioned with Linux, as I seem to be wasting a lot of time switching between the two operating systems, to use tools that Linux SHOULD HAVE.

What did I want to do? Simple... Make a graphic of a word.. Drop a black 2px border round it.. Crop the image so there is no wasted space, and save it as a .gif. Such a simple thing... There doesnt seem to be an easy way to do so in GIMP.

  • Mood - Sad

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