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JayArtist
October 15th, 2013, 10:57 AM
Hi,

I recently created a theme for Gimp (2.8+), Tool Icons and GTK2 theme that looks similar to CS6. I cerated it to help those transition between Adobe and Gimp, most new users stating that Gimp is just unworkable, or words to that fashion. This should help bridge the gap somewhat I hope.

It might even be of use if you are a seasoned Gimp user and want a more pro "look" for your software. Either way I hope you like it ;)

Within the download is comprehensive PDF tutorial on how to install the theme in case you don't know how to, although it's easy as making a boiled egg.

I've also added a new splash screen and my Tool icon layout in case it's of interest.

http://s23.postimg.org/90w122f63/Gimp_CS6_theme.png


http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Gimp+GTK2+Photoshop+CS6+Theme?content=160952

Jay.

Buntu Bunny
October 15th, 2013, 02:09 PM
Very nice, Jay. It's true that folks like best what they are familiar with, so certainly this will help, especially if there is the predicted migration to Ubuntu, once XP is no longer supported.

I confess I've never used Adobe products other than Reader, but I certainly like the look of what you've done. Similar layout to Inkscape, which I am familiar with.

JayArtist
October 15th, 2013, 03:40 PM
Yeah, this type of layout has become the standard for most 'art' styled apps, so even if you've not used Photoshop before, or CS6 you'll probably find this layout more straight forward and tidy to use. Plus you'll have gained a whole lotta screen width for working with images.

juampi-ursic
October 18th, 2013, 06:06 AM
This is great! I don't use GIMP, i use Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, i'm trying to replace Ai and Id for Inkscape and Scribus, it's hard but the main thing why it's hard it's becase of the UI/UX, the three main graphics alternatives for this programs, Open Source speaking, are GIMP, Inkscape and Scribus but none of them have a good UI, GIMP has by far the best of the three and with Single Window Mode it really reassembles Photoshop and with a theme, hell yeah!

I really do not know why having THE SEXIEST OS of all, i mean, look at KDE4, GNOME3, look at elementaryOS, damn! That is gorgeous, but Inkscape UI is damn ugly, Scribus UI it's in the middle of the three, but with that ugly UI the UX comes and it makes the program harder to addopt and it shouldn't be, take this UI Redesign for example :

http://th06.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2012/364/c/c/inkscape_redesign_by_bassultra-d5ppoke.png



Why i wouldn't want to use that? I know it has almost the same features, i can live without some things (can't select multiple guides for example) but not without a ugly and not so functional UI.

Hope the teams behind those apps can put a good UI/UX and i think is the only thing that's keeping people from chaging, at least for me it is that simple.

JayArtist
October 18th, 2013, 02:33 PM
It's the same for all of us moving from Adobe products - You'd think that as developers have all that freedom they'd fill their software full of amazing features and really show how cutting edge their interfaces and software could be. But from what I've learned over the years most devs work in their own small groups and really like to do things thier way - Open Source ain't a democracy, no matter how good your ideas are, or mock ups - they mostly just don't listen to the users.

Elementary OS is a loveley 'looking' distro, better looking than most - but maybe that's to do with the break away from the typical Linuxy/Windows look and going for a more OSX style of thing. That said though as a past EOS user myself the feedback you get from the devs is poor to say the least. EOS doesn't even have it's own forum, instead using Google+ and IRC. If it wasn't for the small but great community at http://elementaryforum.org/ I don't think many people would hang around waiting.

The only software that really does shine through all this Open Sourceness in my opinion is blender (blender.org) - these guys at the Blender Foundation put so much effort into their software and do listen to their users.

I don't know about Inkscape's development, but Gimp's is increadibly slow. From what I gather some of the devs have real jobs and just tinker with it in their spare time - maybe this is the nature of Open Source for some. Saying that, I still love it, and would go this way rather than commercial any day - I always tend to favour the underdog.

ofnuts
October 19th, 2013, 11:23 PM
It's the same for all of us moving from Adobe products - You'd think that as developers have all that freedom they'd fill their software full of amazing features and really show how cutting edge their interfaces and software could be. But from what I've learned over the years most devs work in their own small groups and really like to do things thier way - Open Source ain't a democracy, no matter how good your ideas are, or mock ups - they mostly just don't listen to the users.

Elementary OS is a loveley 'looking' distro, better looking than most - but maybe that's to do with the break away from the typical Linuxy/Windows look and going for a more OSX style of thing. That said though as a past EOS user myself the feedback you get from the devs is poor to say the least. EOS doesn't even have it's own forum, instead using Google+ and IRC. If it wasn't for the small but great community at http://elementaryforum.org/ I don't think many people would hang around waiting.

The only software that really does shine through all this Open Sourceness in my opinion is blender (blender.org) - these guys at the Blender Foundation put so much effort into their software and do listen to their users.

I don't know about Inkscape's development, but Gimp's is increadibly slow. From what I gather some of the devs have real jobs and just tinker with it in their spare time - maybe this is the nature of Open Source for some. Saying that, I still love it, and would go this way rather than commercial any day - I always tend to favour the underdog.

Software takes time to write... a typical programmer will produce 200 lines of working code per day. Programmers have to be fed, housed and sometimes also have to feed, house, and cater to the needs of a family. Open source if basically free, so the business models are:

- the code is useful (and somewhat vital) to some rich people or companies, and they pay for the development directly or by letting some of their employees work on the code: Blender, Apache
- the producer of the code funds programmers but makes a benefit by selling services around the code: RedHat
- the programmers have another job and work on the code on their free time: Gimp

Gimp development is slow because there aren't that many active developers on the Gimp core.

You are right, open source isn't a democracy, it's an "ergocracy". The more you work and benefit the community, the more power you have. Where you are wrong is when you say OSS developers don't listen to users. They listen, which doesn't mean they will obey. They listen to everybody, but of course choices have to be made, so some users feel rejected. Your ideas, even good, may not be compatible with other things or would require a redesign of the application... A good idea is much more likely to be accepted when it comes with code...

robert shearer
October 20th, 2013, 06:42 AM
Quote Originally Posted by JayArtist View Post
It's the same for all of us moving from Adobe products - You'd think that as developers have all that freedom they'd fill their software full of amazing features and really show how cutting edge their interfaces and software could be. But from what I've learned over the years most devs work in their own small groups and really like to do things thier way - Open Source ain't a democracy, no matter how good your ideas are, or mock ups - they mostly just don't listen to the users.

Elementary OS is a loveley 'looking' distro, better looking than most - but maybe that's to do with the break away from the typical Linuxy/Windows look and going for a more OSX style of thing. That said though as a past EOS user myself the feedback you get from the devs is poor to say the least. EOS doesn't even have it's own forum, instead using Google+ and IRC. If it wasn't for the small but great community at http://elementaryforum.org/ I don't think many people would hang around waiting.

The only software that really does shine through all this Open Sourceness in my opinion is blender (blender.org) - these guys at the Blender Foundation put so much effort into their software and do listen to their users.

I don't know about Inkscape's development, but Gimp's is increadibly slow. From what I gather some of the devs have real jobs and just tinker with it in their spare time - maybe this is the nature of Open Source for some. Saying that, I still love it, and would go this way rather than commercial any day - I always tend to favour the underdog.
(+1 @ ofnuts)
Gimp works !. In all the years I have used image editors not once has Gimp crashed....... Many others have ;).
I support the Gimp Devs by donation and am wonderously grateful for their efforts...!
Their only failing is to suffer others who overhype developement....:(
Gimp is my go-to app for work that needs to happen now. It has not now, not ever, never (apologies to Andy Williams' bear ;) ) failed me and it's dev's deserve your full support in whatever way you feel able.
Have a nice one...:D

b|ackhole
October 27th, 2013, 07:15 PM
I was really excited to use this, as I only have run through the Adobe CS and need something I can work with until I get my Creative Cloud running right, if at all.

However whenever I click the http://gnome-look.org/img/arrows/download.png I am directed to a blank page reading "Not found". Am I doing something wrong?

ofnuts
October 27th, 2013, 10:07 PM
The link works for me...

s.fox
October 29th, 2013, 03:42 PM
I like the look of the theme, I will attempt to install in the next few days and report back on how it goes. Thank you for putting the effort in :)

morty71
January 19th, 2014, 10:47 PM
Nice job, now I don't have to search for the icons...

peter63
January 23rd, 2014, 06:50 PM
It looks pretty good, but i have a problem.
I am using Gimp on windows 7 and the menu bar and a few other interface objects are still white, what makes it hard to read some text.
The greyed-out options in a drop down menu also look strage and are hard to read.
Do you know how to fix this? Or is this a Windows problem?http://s7.directupload.net/images/140123/lnbojrvy.jpg

lpanebr
May 28th, 2014, 08:04 PM
Thank you. That theme is awesome! I also added the PS6 shortcuts from here (http://epierce.freeshell.org/gimp/gimp_ps.php).

rhov23
August 1st, 2014, 03:21 PM
It looks pretty good, but i have a problem.
I am using Gimp on windows 7 and the menu bar and a few other interface objects are still white, what makes it hard to read some text.
The greyed-out options in a drop down menu also look strage and are hard to read.
Do you know how to fix this? Or is this a Windows problem?http://s7.directupload.net/images/140123/lnbojrvy.jpg

How did you get a square "set front and background color" button on the toolbox? All the ones I've seen are rectangular.

M-Rick
August 3rd, 2014, 08:47 PM
Hi i do have the same problem with the Mac OS X build.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/150x100q90/673/raGMjv.png (http://imageshack.com/f/ipraGMjvp)

Bucky Ball
August 3rd, 2014, 09:14 PM
From the description of this sub-forum:


Discuss various aspects of Ubuntu and Art here.

You'll probably have more luck resolving Gimp in Win and Mac on the appropriate Win and Mac forums (or possibly a Gimp forum, if there is one) ... Good luck. ;)

Buntu Bunny
August 4th, 2014, 01:13 AM
You'll probably have more luck resolving Gimp in Win and Mac on the appropriate Win and Mac forums (or possibly a Gimp forum, if there is one)

http://www.gimpforums.com/

shuichi
August 13th, 2014, 12:21 PM
Thanks! Like this ill get use to it easier!

arieleadrianzen
November 21st, 2014, 03:04 AM
@b|ackhole Try this link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lorta8y36m8t1dy/Gimp-CS6-Theme.tar.gz idk why it didn't work for you, I clicked the download button and it took me to that link and I clicked the blue Download button. This link is the one from the blue download button: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lorta8y36m8t1dy/Gimp-CS6-Theme.tar.gz?dl=1

eight.coffee.beans
December 6th, 2014, 12:38 AM
Nice job done there and thanks for the share! :)
I'm still trying after few weeks of using GIMP to get used to it, but I don't think that will happen in near future. :(

j0sk
December 11th, 2014, 12:20 AM
Hope this will fix my casual Photoshopping needs on Linux.

bognar-janos73
December 18th, 2014, 09:09 AM
Thank you.

albernazmiguel
May 6th, 2015, 06:27 AM
Does this theme actually exists. Where can I find it?

Thanks

SKyPH3R
July 15th, 2015, 09:56 PM
Thank you so much for making this! It does a ton for readability. I always wanted to make a theme for GIMP, because of all of the easily (for developers) fixable, improvable visual elements that just haven't went through. There's no shame in taking visual cues from Adobe or almost ANY other editing software to modernize the UI and make it more accessible to people coming from Photoshop AND just getting into visual editing.

Again, this is great. Although, this kind of puts off taking on the task myself, the more visually streamlined workspace will help me produce UI elements for all kinds of open source software.

Mike_Walsh
August 20th, 2015, 10:37 PM
Honestly, I never understand why it is that so many Windows users place so much importance purely on appearance over functionality. I don't base my impression of anything on the way it initially looks; functionality is far more important to me. I agree with robert shearer; in all the years that I, too, have used the GIMP, it's never once crashed on me. I've used PhotoShop alongside it for years.....and I know which I prefer. Which one is more logical. Which one is more powerful...and which one just simply works, 100% of the time.

I could well afford to pay for Adobe's products.....but I simply don't like them. Even under Windows, I used the GIMP for years.....in preference to PhotoShop. Perhaps there's something wrong with me!

Each to their own.


Regards,

Mike. ;)

qamelian
August 20th, 2015, 10:45 PM
Nothing wrong with you on that count. I've always preferred GIMP to PS, as well.

aj-andrews-enterprise
August 21st, 2015, 03:20 AM
Personally I've never got into the gimp interface currently I have Photoshop cs6 running through playonlinux, gimp and inkscape installed going to try the tweaks mentioned see if I can finally ditch Photoshop then I will finally be using nothing but opensource.

brian-mccumber
August 21st, 2015, 04:07 AM
Wow! Nice job! Fortunately, I learned on Gimp before I started using PS so going back to Gimp from PS was not a problem. Still the theme looks great. I used Gimp on Windows before I switched OS's to Linux and I never saw anything about Gimp themes for Gimp on Windows. Did I just over look it or can you only customize the Gimp UI on Linux boxes?

Mike_Walsh
August 22nd, 2015, 10:23 AM
Nothing wrong with you on that count. I've always preferred GIMP to PS, as well.

No, I think it's human nature, when it comes down to it. We tend to stick with what's comfortable, and what we're used to. In my case, I never really got into PS the way a lot of people have.....for one thing, I object to their present 'subscription charge' model (you're never finished paying for it). And for another, I tried out PS many years ago on a friend's HP tower, when I was starting to get into digital image processing; I thought it was awkward, even then. I didn't find it intuitive. I think it was CS2, in those days.

I was looking round to see what was available, came across the GIMP, and decided to give it a try. Very quickly, it just seemed to make more sense; either that, or my brain's wired-up differently to other folks... So, I've been using it since around 2004/5, give or take. The Windows port has never seemed quite as responsive as it should; when I moved to Linux in April last year, I couldn't believe how much faster & smoother it seemed to run.

Made me a very 'happy bunny'!

I guess for a business, it makes sense to pay for a 'rolling', continuously-updating suite of graphic design tools...especially where those same tools are being used to generate your income, and to drum up future business. But for the average home user, (well, to me at any rate) it makes no sense. At all.


Regards,

Mike. ;)

qamelian
August 22nd, 2015, 06:54 PM
I used Photoshop for years before discovering GIMP, but once I learned GIMP and how easy it was for me to extend its functionality to meet my needs, I never looked back!

monkeybrain20122
August 22nd, 2015, 09:16 PM
I never understand why do people want to make gimp look like pS, or Linux desktops look like Win7 (or MAcbook). Does it embarrass you to be caught using FOSS? If you like these so much get the real thing rather than going out of your limp to make a counterfeit (reminds me of Windows pirates in China selling Ubuntu with XP themes to con customers after govt crackdown)

I don't think this is very respectful to the gimp developers because the implication is that you are just using it as a poor man's substitute for PS (and you would rather have the real thing if you aren't so cheap) Think of a guy begging his girlfriend to dress and wear makeup to look like his ex if you have problem grasping the point. :)

Mike_Walsh
August 23rd, 2015, 12:01 PM
I never understand why do people want to make gimp look like pS, or Linux desktops look like Win7 (or MAcbook). Does it embarrass you to be caught using FOSS? If you like these so much get the real thing rather than going out of your limp to make a counterfeit (reminds me of Windows pirates in China selling Ubuntu with XP themes to con customers after govt crackdown)

I don't think this is very respectful to the gimp developers because the implication is that you are just using it as a poor man's substitute for PS (and you would rather have the real thing if you aren't so cheap) Think of a guy begging his girlfriend to dress and wear makeup to look like his ex if you have problem grasping the point. :)

^^^ +1!!!

Couldn't agree more.


Regards,

Mike.

SKyPH3R
August 25th, 2015, 03:04 PM
GIMP TUTORIAL [MAKE GIMP LOOK LIKE ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ON UBUNTU LINUX]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKHBy7zBjV4
Theme has helped me adjust so much. I thought it would make a good first video tutorial for me.
http://i.imgur.com/tyec0UYl.png

Burgy
February 19th, 2016, 12:23 AM
Wow very nice! I was looking for a more clean look for GIMP online and I didn't now I'd be able to find an amazing one so easily here.
I've always used Photoshop Cs products for bitmap image editing and I think this will definitely help me transition over.