This image is 100 times funnier now compared to 1000 years ago when I first saw it
Does gimp not have a circle?
I dunno, but it does have the worst UI this side of the 60s.
(the new version is supposed to finally fix this but… [x] doubt)
New version? I’m pretty I’ve heard that statement before…
https://www.gimp.org/news/2024/11/06/gimp-3-0-RC1-released/
Rather than trying to be different for the sake of being different, they’ve realized that photoshop and similar UIs actually make for pretty great UX so they’ve adopted it.
TLDR
This was gimp 2.0 when it came out
This is GIMP 3.0 RC
Single window by default did wonders for usability.
That looks damn near usable now
I think I’m still using 2.6.something…
Looks about the same, but I didn’t know they hit 3 finally. Time to upgrade, break everything, and loose all my custom brushes & textures!
3 is in release candidate. Yeah I think many of the UI changes have been incremental over 2.x versions so it’s definitely not “2.9 looks completely different from 3.0”
The UI looks exactly the same as it did 10 years ago. Using single window mode was always an option and only two clicks away
why does everyone hate the UI? I love gimp, but it keeps freezing and crashing -that I don’t like.Love the UI though.
takes one application and makes it into 16 separate windows
Gimp devs: “MORE”
Whenever I use gimp, and have to draw square, circle, text or a similar shape I swear I need to search the net for the answer.
You can do everything, but it is very counter intuitive to a noob. I don’t need to use gimp/Photoshop so I regularly forget it and need to look it up every time. I’m sure that for somebody who uses it regularly it is intuitive.
The last time I used gimp…it does but in like a really weird way. It’s not intuitive.
Iirc you take the circle selection tool and then make a path. Which you then assign a brush width and then a color.
yeah, I remember it like that too
It’s as intuitive as moving the paper under the pen to draw something
Ya just gotta stroke the path
Like this
Comments saying “you don’t” are weak shit. The answer is you rotate each letter one by one.
It will look like shit because they will be ever so slightly misaligned, but such is the fate of the brave
There are ways to deal with the kerning and angles. Mostly be drawing lines you later get rid of.
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- Take a picture of the original text with your phone at an angle.
- Email the crooked image to yourself.
- Copy the rotated text from the crooked image into the destination image.
That’s way harder than what I do, but I’m lucky enough to have access to a flat bed scanner. I just print it out, and then scan it at every angle. That way when I email the scanned photos to myself I have all the angles at once.
You can’t scan things that aren’t lieing flat on scanner.
Each letter gets it’s own text box. You rotate them once by one. You’ll need to measure distance from inner perimeter of the circle and manage the exact angle to center. So a protractor, string, or drawn line can help. (Draw the line before putting the center picture in.
Source - Am Millennial, MSPaint was it back in the day.
Or, alternatively, use a professional paint program. Which does not necessarily have to be commercial.
This is much too high quality to be called a shitpost.
It’s Ms post
Rotate the whole picture
Rotate my farts.
I know someone who charges for that
Instead of using MS Paint, maybe you should use Inkscape for such projects. It can easily align text along lines, but the best thing is that it is vector based, so the images easily scale. Very useful for logos.
That’s all well and good until you need more jpeg.
You can always export an Inkscape image as a bitmap in whatever resolution you’ll probably need.
I once did an export with a width of >10000px (85cm ~=33.5in @ 300dpi). Yes, the file size sucked. But it looked good.
Will it handle seven pixels?
Or Gimp
Or GIMP, yes, but for that kind of logo, Inkscape is definitely the better choice.
It always depends on the project.
Gimp is free, but God is the interface terrible.
Lots of free software is great. I love my QGIS and Inkscape, but Gimp just can’t replace photoshop for me.
Good thing is that GIMP 3.0 is right around the corner, bringing a port from GTK2 to GTK3 and with that a much more modern GUI.
Inkscape would still be better for this in particular though.
I used Adobe illustrator to make mine
absolutely proprietary
it works
You don’t, Microsoft realized back then that this is the coolest it could ever looked and thusly removed that ability permanently.
i want this on a tshirt
One pixel at a time.
You don’t! 😊
Just type normally along one side and then
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On Windows Paint is like Notepad. Barely functional. There are layers now though, which is a step into right direction. For anything decent you need 3rd party software.
Or use online editor like Photopea or Vector Ink. Checked just now and you can warp text there.
