I used old photos that I wanted used as wallpapers and posters. I took most of the pictures with my girlfriends Nikon D3200 and my iPhone 6. Some images I created myself, and a couple were taken by my good friend. After using GIMP this past month, I have noticed a few benefits and flaws to the software.
When I first began playing with GIMP, I noticed that it was incredibly simple to move around images on different layers without having to manually select an image on a specific layer. This is VERY handy when making minor adjustments. I really found that the interface was simple to use. Whenever I was looking for a tool, I was able to hover my cursor over an icon and I would provide a summary (I really noticed this when I could not find the Clone Tool and was mistaking it for the Perspective Clone Tool). Another benefit was the endless amount of support for the program. I cruised around r/GIMP quite a bit and found plenty of tutorials on YouTube.
It really, really frustrates me that I am not able to create shapes with it. Yes, I understand that it is an image manipulation program, however it's disappointing that it lacks basic shape tools that even MS Paint has. With the interface, I wish that the Dockable Dialogs were floating. I found it annoying when I had the workspace full screen, the windows would disappear in behind the workspace. I worked around this by just shrinking the main window and sucking it up. I eventually found that I can enter Single-Window Mode; a mode that contains all Dockable Dialogs on one giant window. I believe that this is a feature that Photoshop does not have.
There are many tools that I have not used yet and I look forward to delving deeper into the program now that I actually have an image manipulation program.
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