Gimpfags don't even know what non-destructive editing means.
You can also fill the rectangle pixel by pixel using the pencil tool! That means Gimp CAN do it and you can't complain about it!
Count how many separate tools Gimp has for brushes. I'll wait. Also instead of making excuses, Photoshop lets you completely configure which tools appear in which positions and which ones are grouped together in the tool list.
Can't you even decide what you want?
What you mean is called mask. I know Photoshop contains masking for paths.
GIMP does not. GIMP is a raster graphics program.
The closest thing to vector stuff it has is paths which exist to be rasterized.
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They're not trying to be a PS clone!
PS users aren't able to use it anyway. R U HAPPY NOW????????
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or literally anything else.
I installed Premiere and other Adobe shit once. You needed multiple adobe programs and a webm addon or you weren't even able to render that shit into a webm.
Btw Inkscape does your "nondestructive editing" just fine because it's a vector program.
So just open your raster graphic in inkscape, do your "nondestructive editing" and export it into a png when you're done.
Are you for real?
Kill yourself my dude, vector graphics are incredibly useful because they are trivial to modify without losing any quality.
fuck off with this "nondestructive means vectors" meme. The majority of nondestructive ops work on rasters as well. One example is adjustment layers. another is clipping masks. inkscape is an ai clone, it cannot even pretend to replace ps.
Just so we can stop this shit meme I will explain it to you and anyone else who might be confused.
Non-destructive editing means being able to do transformations and adjustments to layers without affecting the layer data. In Photoshop you can group any number of layers into a "smart object", you can scale and rotate and warp it all day but you can still revert it and upscale it later without losing quality, or open the it in another window and edit it's original contents. Krita has something similar in the form of transform layers, but they're really buggy and shit. There's also file layers which let you use krita documents, but they're slow to use since you have to manually and separately fiddle with the file.
There's also adjustment layers which mentioned, even Krita has them despite supposedly not being for "image manipulation". Adjustment layers render filters and color adjustments onto other layers without actually affecting the layer itself, so you can tweak it later or remove it if you change your mind.
Clipping masks and transparency masks are so fundamental that I didn't even consider the possibility of not having one of them. A clipping mask will blend the pixels from 2 layers with each other without merging them. Interestingly enough Krita is better than Photoshop in this regard, since you can nest layer groups and their effects indefinitely, while Photoshop only has 1 level of clipping unless it was changed since I last checked.
I looked around a little and it seems like gimp does have clipping masks, it's just very obtuse like most things in Gimp. You have to put the layers in a group, right click, go to "composite mode" and select "clip to backdrop".
Nobody needs anything better than Adobe CS6 Master Collection. Adobe kindly provides the installation files for you here, no log-in walls: helpx.adobe.com
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This thread is proof GIMP+Krita+Inkscape fags are clueless or, more likely, highly partisan. Adobe CS6 Master Collection was made around 2010 and still blows the pants off those three plus the other (((FOSS alternatives))). Everything works inter-application in CS6 (Illustrator objects in Photoshop or After Effects), unlike in Inkscape + GIMP.
Behold the glory of Adobe CS6 meme making, and I'm but an amateur at the suite!