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blackbelt352 @lemmy.world
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  • Photoshop has a nice looking UI but there are some very subtle but really useful things GIMP does that Photoshop doesn't. For example when drawing with the Rectangle/Ellipse tool GIMP doesn't immediately lock in the selection but gives me handles I can use to perfectly fine tune the selection down to the pixel, especially for the ellipse tool. I don't get that level of control over the marquee tool in Photoshop.

    I can also freely scroll and zoom while using the lasso tool in GIMP and it can go between free draw lasso and poly draw lasso by clicking and dragging or just clicking to establish new lasso nodes. And I can just undo any of those nodes by hitting backspace.

    The only tool I really miss in GIMP is the magnetic lasso but needing to drag the cursor all the way to the edge of the screen just to scroll somewhere else on an image makes the tool so much worse.

  • checkmate
  • Possibly, I know that in the current state kf the industry, Autodesk and Maxon in the last 5-10 years have gotten exceptionally stagnant in the development of truly new game changing stuff and are now looking at Blender and copying what is going on there. Blender really is leading the way with new tech and new tools that others are copying them instead of the other way around. And Blender has been doing a lot to make sure it can fit into basically any pipeline.

  • Wife of former Marine to be deported to Mexico Friday, after 20 years in U.S. (2018)
  • Biden's status quo policy didn't deport this woman for 4 years. Now that trump is elected, she's getting ahead of the policy change and just going to a random ass town where it's normal for military spouses to go when they are deported to Mexico.

    Blame trump and the people who voted for him.

  • checkmate
  • Blender also has a huge benefit of a very active group of donors and a lot of support from the Netherlands government. Major industry organizations like Ubisoft and Epic Games have made significant monetary contributions in recent years to the Blender Foundation because they're more closely integrating Blender into their creative and technical pipelines

  • checkmate
  • Blender Foundation I think has perfectly balanced the quality that comes from a centrally managed project with the community and adaptability of its open source nature and the support of the community.

    They have a managed hub where a lot of fantastic community plug-ins reside but just as many high quality plug-ins are hosted elsewhere. They also do their best to bring in exceptional talent from the community officially into the Foundation like the hiring of the old Animation Nodes plug-in creator to work on Grometry Nodes and revamp all the other node based workflows in Blender.

  • Republicans admit they plan to implement Project 2025
  • Nationwide abortion ban bypassing the legislative process, elimination of the Department of Education, elimination of the EPA and numerous other regulatory bodies, more direct Presidential control over the Department of Justice to weaponize it after perceived enemies, reinstating forgiven student debts.

  • In concession speech, Harris says "when we lose an election, we accept the results"
  • Except that Russia did and has continued funding disinformation to sow division and hatred among Americans.

    You can look up Tenet Media and how they filtered Russian money down to major right wing political commentators.

    There's nothing fake about that.

  • People outside the US can you do us a favor and check in on us every now and then after January? I don't feel safe.
  • In 2016 the Republicans didn't have the planning or political infrastructure to truly cause the damage they wanted to. In less than a decade we now have an openly corrupt and stacked Supreme Court, a legislature with plenty of Maga sycophants to pass whatever they want and a presidency that is going to be filled with the likes of Elon Musk and the literal Project 2025 playbook written by trumps cronies and the Herritage Foundation.

  • The real winner
  • The difference is trump is enthusiastically sucking to get the biggest and fastest completion of all time and dems have been slow blowing for 2 years trying to avoid the worst possible outcome.