Not hard to get the hang of basic editing in GIMP.
A general rule I always follow is when you start editing … create a folder, place all your starting images in there and duplicate the folder … keep one folder as the original (and keep it hidden in the background) and start editing in the copy.
This way, if you ever mess up or can no longer undo whatever you did … just grab a copy of the original layer and restart
Sometimes if I’m doing a complicated edit, I’ll keep multiple duplicates of each layer version of the edit I’m doing… just to be safe.
It took me a ton of lost hours of editing before I got to the point of creating duplicate backup layers … it creates massive files but if I’m just doing memes, I just delete the editing file once I’m done anyway.
Thanks for the tips! Yeah, it’s definitely confusing at this point, trying to keep all the layers and masks straight. Most of the work done so far has been: ok, that was time-consuming, and I can’t really use this result, but I’ve learned something. Doing some parallel messing about with Shotcut.
Not hard to get the hang of basic editing in GIMP.
A general rule I always follow is when you start editing … create a folder, place all your starting images in there and duplicate the folder … keep one folder as the original (and keep it hidden in the background) and start editing in the copy.
This way, if you ever mess up or can no longer undo whatever you did … just grab a copy of the original layer and restart
Sometimes if I’m doing a complicated edit, I’ll keep multiple duplicates of each layer version of the edit I’m doing… just to be safe.
It took me a ton of lost hours of editing before I got to the point of creating duplicate backup layers … it creates massive files but if I’m just doing memes, I just delete the editing file once I’m done anyway.
Happy editing … I look forward to it!!
Thanks for the tips! Yeah, it’s definitely confusing at this point, trying to keep all the layers and masks straight. Most of the work done so far has been: ok, that was time-consuming, and I can’t really use this result, but I’ve learned something. Doing some parallel messing about with Shotcut.