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by mega_dean
955 days ago
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> my first guess is usually wrong I had the same experience, and searching for answers using keywords was not very effective. There are so many features that the terms I guessed were often a different concept in GIMP, leading to a bunch of irrelevant results. I have found that ChatGPT solves this problem very well, so I don't even try searching first anymore. I can verbosely explain what I am trying to accomplish, and it tells me "that is called X in GIMP, and here is how to use it: ...". A recent example is that the Bucket Fill tool was filling in adjacent pixels that were a slightly different color than the one I clicked on. ChatGPT told me this is called the "threshold" and how to change it to 0 so it only filled exact matches. I would have searched for something like "gimp bucket fill sensitivity" or "gimp bucket fill precision", then had to read through a forum answer or the GIMP documentation to see that term. |
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And you would have seen the correct answer if you searched this instead of trying to explain it to ChatGPT.
The first result of my Kagi search for that exact query is the official GIMP documentation. It provides the answer in the snippet.
> The Threshold slider sets the level at which color weights are measured for fill boundaries. A higher setting will fill more of a multi colored image and conversely, a lower setting will fill less area.
The second result is from graphicdesign.stackexchange.com and the snippet tells you that you might want to check the anti-alias setting if you want non-softened filling. That seems relevant if you want exact color areas to be filled with the exact color you picked as well.
Overall pretty happy with the first two results, I feel that they answered the question without even clicking away from the results page or trying to explain things to ChatGPT.