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Q: Gimp vs Photoshop
To answer your literal question, there are a few areas where GIMP can be better than Photoshop. It's not particularly common (usually, at best you can expect them to do the job equally well), but it ...
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Q: Gimp vs Photoshop
Before I start, just to let you know I'm a happy and frequent user of GIMP, but I also have an Adobe CC account, and use the latest version of Photoshop, which I also enjoy using. I'm not a fanboy of ...
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How to use San Francisco font on Windows?
You go here: https://developer.apple.com/fonts/ (yes I know this is the official link - thing is: SF is a open type font, its just "hidden" deep in the downloaded package)
Then you download the font.
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How to use San Francisco font on Windows?
Step 1: Download the font package from Apple.
https://developer.apple.com/fonts/
Make sure to download the regular fonts and not the compact fonts for watchOS. The download will have an annoying ....
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Q: Gimp vs Photoshop
Since many have said most of what I was going to, there is one situation, somewhat specialized, that GIMP can handle that Photoshop could not.
I do astrophotograpy, and if I want to process the RAW ...
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How to use San Francisco font on Windows?
I'm resurrecting this from the death, because I think I have the answer.
I ended up downloading the font here, and proceeded to convert all the fonts to TTF format using this converter. This has ...
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Q: Gimp vs Photoshop
You can not compare GIMP and Photoshop because they do not represent the same category of tools.
The world is full of pixel manipulators that have
faster interaction speeds,
more filters,
better ...
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Q: Gimp vs Photoshop
I've taken advantage of most of the things listed in other answers but there were a few which I didn't see highlighted...
Really flexible keybindings
Also called keyboard-shortcuts or 'accelerators' ...
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Can I combine rounded and sharp corners in the same design?
There are no rules.
If it looks right, it's acceptable.
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Q: Gimp vs Photoshop
I have used both. Like you I had several years of Photoshop use before using GIMP. The thing is that we tend to forget how much of a learning curve there is with Photoshop. GIMP is very powerful but ...
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Should I go through all tutorials that are available on Youtube?
What's much more important than watching tutorials is gaining skills. You can watch all the tutorials in the world related to a subject and still be bad at that subject because you're not applying the ...
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How to toggle between Pen Mode and Mouse Mode with Wacom Intuos Pro Tablet
On the old drivers, it was possible to set two "buttons" on the radial menu to mouse mode and pen mode. Now that this very use full feature is gone (you may ask WHY?) then the only other possibility ...
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Are there monospace fonts which support spaces of various widths?
We don't know about the technical side of the "application you've written", but in some design software there are spaces of different widths, aside from the usual Space.
These work even for ...
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Need an app where I can clearly show the hierarchy/order my clients jobs are in so they can see which jobs are ahead of their jobs
Google Docs
If the intention is to share the list....
Then just with that single factor being predominant, I'd suggest Google Docs which are designed to be easily shared. Then digging further if you ...
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Good practice of showing Items details in the same table's page
Same page or different page is really dependent upon the details themselves.
If the details are something like 20 numbers... you could do a simple table with show/hide jquery on the same page.
If ...
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How should icons inside an app look like?
Icons in a user interface should be:
aesthetically cohesive
visually distinct from each other
intuitive
Typically, that means the simpler, the better.
While adding a hand to every icon may help ...
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How to toggle between Pen Mode and Mouse Mode with Wacom Intuos Pro Tablet
It is not perfect way, but better than nothing. I use wacom driver 6.3.11, the last one with mouse/pen mode in radial menu, and the first one with mouse height setting. So there is no any significant ...
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What applications support automatic freehand smoothing?
GIMP has smoothing options in the paint brush dynamics options.
Krita has similar weighted smoothing
And also stabilizer smoothing
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Can I combine rounded and sharp corners in the same design?
You can do whatever you want, but a better UX is to drag the straight line shapes all the way to the edge of the screen and keep buttons and such rounded. This will create a better separation between ...
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Can I use a Freepik icon as my commercial mobile app icon?
If you are dead set on this workflow idea, then either use the free license and clearly attribute it not being your work or pay the minor fee to get full license - see screencap below.
That said, it'...
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Can I use a Freepik icon as my commercial mobile app icon?
Luckily for you when you download a graphic from Freepik they have a screen that tells you what you need to do to give proper attribution to the content's creator.
In your case, you need to click the ...
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Status icon for verification, claimed and both combined
Do you have to use badges? Because an Exclamation point doesn't remind me of a claim being completed. That reminds me of an important notice.
Depending on the application, I think a checkmark next to ...
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Software suggestion: hand tracing photo to vector on tablet
You could use the Adobe Illustrator Draw app. It works on Android devices, and is available in the Google Play store.
To add an image, begin a new project. Tap the Layers icon, tap the + icon to add ...
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Are there monospace fonts which support spaces of various widths?
It is extremely unlikely that a fixed width font has such a feature because it would allow the fonts to not align under themselves. Which is obviously not what the designer intended. But consider:
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Should I go through all tutorials that are available on Youtube?
Stop right now. You are using tutorials wrong, which is admittedly common. I will first explain how to use tutorials and i will then explain why and why you feel like the info will be obsolete.
Ok so ...
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Should I go through all tutorials that are available on Youtube?
There's rarely anything such as an "obsolete" tutorial. Applications don't typically remove features. So learning even the base features is helpful. And should any app add a feature which ...
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Status icon for verification, claimed and both combined
I think my trouble with this concept is that the shapes are so generic / arbitrary seeming that I don't gestalt read "Claimed & Verified" as being a combination of the two earlier statuses - I can ...
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Can I combine rounded and sharp corners in the same design?
UX approach is something that is generally skipped past when making a design decision and on a large scale, this certain area is the actual game changer. It's still in debate if either two different ...
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