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i'm new to image manipulation and I stumbled upon Gimp. Is there a beginners guide for mac users? The official manual has illustrations which are different from what i am seeing. I suspect that is because I am using a mac and the illustrations are on a PC and of course there are other differences, such as key shortcuts.
(04-02-2021, 09:16 PM)stobarta@gmail.com Wrote: [ -> ]i'm new to image manipulation and I stumbled upon Gimp. Is there a beginners guide for mac users? The official manual has illustrations which are different from what i am seeing. I suspect that is because I am using a mac and the illustrations are on a PC and of course there are other differences, such as key shortcuts.

Maybe you've already figured it out.

Here is a link with some video tutorials for Gimp on Mac OS's.
https://www.google.com/search?q=gimp+beg...=557985309
Old mac user here before I claim my freedom Big Grin

(04-02-2021, 09:16 PM)stobarta@gmail.com Wrote: [ -> ]such as key shortcuts.

All shortcut are the same, naming on mac is just different

just 2 things to remember

1- Ctrl (Control) => Command
For example Ctrl+C on PC = Command+C on a Mac

2- Alt => Option
For example Ctrl+Alt+V on PC = Command+Option+V on a Mac

Shift => Shift (same)

Enter => Return
Delete => go to Edit > Clear
The Delete key on a mac is NOT a true delete key even if they wrote it => it's a backspace, thus for mac, instead go to the top Menu Edit > Clear if using the Backspace does not work.

Last but not least, Preferences and other things that you might see in the top menu Edit on tuto => are in the top menu GIMP on a mac (between the apple logo and "File")

Then you should be good to watch any tuto for any operating system as GIMP is the very same as everywhere

More shortcut > https://shortcutworld.com/GIMP/mac/GIMP_Shortcuts

(04-02-2021, 09:16 PM)stobarta@gmail.com Wrote: [ -> ]The official manual has illustrations which are different from what i am seeing

Maybe because you stumble upon an old version of the manual user.
For example look at those 2 urls:

1- https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/gimp-tool-dynamics.html
2- https://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-tool-dynamics.html

one is for GIMP 2.10, the second one is for GIMP 2.8

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Just check that the url is for 2.10 (anyway you will still find old screenshot in later updated manual Wink )