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Re:Switch from Photoshop to Gimp: Tips From a Pro by pekk on Friday March 28, 2014 @01:10AM (#7485464)
"Usability" never seems to mean anything specific, but rather whatever the speaker has in mind as a personal taste. In this case, my best guess is that you mean "UI works exactly like Photoshop"
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Re:Switch from Photoshop to Gimp: Tips From a Pro by nitrogen on Friday March 28, 2014 @04:57AM (#7486008)
I use Gimp professionally for UI and web work, and it does have some UI difficulties. The biggest for me is the haphazard arrangement of tool icons. It sometimes takes me ages to find the right icon because they aren't categorized and don't have a coherent style.
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Re:Switch from Photoshop to Gimp: Tips From a Pro by jzzskijj on Friday March 28, 2014 @08:51AM (#7486838)
In Windows:

  Edit -> Preferences -> Toolbox -> Tools Configuration
Order the icons as you like. Hide the ones you don't need.

And also learn key shortcuts.

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Re:Switch from Photoshop to Gimp: Tips From a Pro by nitrogen on Friday March 28, 2014 @01:04PM (#7488485)
It's not just the default ordering that's the issue, it's the lack of grouping. And as a Vim user, I'm no stranger to keyboard accelerators. Unfortunately I don't use GIMP frequently enough for all of the keyboard shortcuts to stick (were some of them assigned from nouns in a language other than English?).

Thanks for the reordering tip, though.

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