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How To Make The GIMP’s Layout Like Photoshop’s.
This is a video on how to make The GIMP look similar to Photoshop's default layout. Software used: Openshot Video Editor, gtk-recordmydesktop for the desktop capture, Inkscape for the intro graphics and The GAP for the animation image rendering.
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July 17th, 2010 - 01:41
Nice tut there. Thanks.
July 17th, 2010 - 01:41
@GIMPMan1972 ya i found it by accident, though i wish it would work more like the panels in a KDE app like dolphin or amarok which is much more obvious with it’s animation and overlay while moving panels.
July 17th, 2010 - 01:41
@passerby500 Ahhh, that’s just real tricky to find but yeah I see now, thanks.
July 17th, 2010 - 01:41
@passerby500 above where the tabs are on a panel there is a small area to drag things onto you just have do it 1 item at a time, there is one of these areas at the very top and the very bottom of each containment for dockable stuff.
if done this on both the linux (openSuSE) version and on the windows (7) version.
July 17th, 2010 - 01:41
@passerby500 How do you actually do that? As for as I can see, I can only drag into the top or bottom panel and not in between.
July 17th, 2010 - 01:41
@GIMPMan1972
you can also combine those 3 panels so they only have one windows decoration between the 3 of them i would post a pic but youtube want let me link things in comments
July 17th, 2010 - 01:41
Great tutorial! I would like to see Gimp devs do this by default because its original layout really sucks.
July 17th, 2010 - 01:41
@GIMPMan1972 Yep i got it !
July 17th, 2010 - 01:41
@eksasol Yes but Photoshop has three panels, The GIMP cannot do a three section panel in one. If you combine them, it’s not like Photoshop, that’s the point of this.
July 17th, 2010 - 01:41
I’ve been having my layout like that all long. Except the right panel is one window split into sections, not three separate windows.
To keep the layout, save the file “sessionrc”. To keep the Preferences, save the file “gimprc”. These two files are in GiMP’s profile folder, which in Windows is located in: %userprofile%/.gimp-2.6
(assuming you are using version 2.6).
July 17th, 2010 - 01:41
@NawafLol
Yes, it saves the layout on exit but you can save it manually in Edit>Preferences>Window Management. I assume that’s what you mean?
July 17th, 2010 - 01:41
Can i save the layout ?!
July 17th, 2010 - 01:41
GREAT!
July 17th, 2010 - 01:41
@librano I’m using 2.6.8. The GIMP 2.8 will have a single window option, which is being worked on right now. You can get the development version (2.7.0).
July 17th, 2010 - 01:41
What version GIMP are you using? And do you have any idea when the single window UI is going to be out?