Ctrl + Shift + A

These people who hate GIMP didn't really practice with it all that much. I use for my day job, editing photos and making content for marketplaces. It works very well. The workflow may be different to PS, yes, but that does not make GIMP bad. Also, for those who hate the UI, two things. First, why don't you help the dev team? And second, we'll have GTK3 support soon (finally).

I have no idea how selection works anywhere else, since I only ever used gimp.

For me, I don't understand this meme, selection seems to work very intuitively, it seems to do what I expect it to do.

Taking the time to learn gimp is worthwhile. Its really powerful once you know how to use it IMO

I have used Gimp for years and I actually do not understand this meme. Like, do you not understand how image selection and/or layers work? What tf did you think would happen except for exactly what happens?

I'm confused. Just tried the selection tool in GIMP and Krita on my PC and sketchbook on my tablet. Works the same way as far as I can tell. Just select, draw in there, copy/paste, ctrl-shift-a to unselect. Moving is more convenient in Krita and Sketchbook, true, but like that can't be it right? I'm at a loss.

I dont really know photo editing, could someone explain?

Doesn't Ctrl + A deselect?

Don't try to draw a circle either

guys don't try to resize the canvas by eye in paint.NET

even ms paint is better in this regard

Yes, people are handicapped and entrapped by using Adobe products.

Crtl shift a it's so obvious right... Right?!

why don't people use krita? Gimp may be the most famous photoshop alternative, but I almost never hear anyone talk about others that may potentially be better.

Meanwhile me using Corel draw:

Context?

In an alternate timeline Fireworks MX went open source and people might use one or the other but everyone's happy. Lol

try photogimp

I know, its so hard to press F1 and change the keys to be whatever you want; even copying adobe's keybindings. It takes a whole 15 minutes of setup, the horror.

Gimp sucks. That's why people on Linux rather use krita to edit photos and it wasn't even built to do that.

Gimp is a horrible mistake that should literally be killed off and it should be put into a failure museum to serve as a warning and a reminder how Foss can take a wrong turn and many free development hours are spent towards building the wrong things and continue to disappoint any user that tries it.