Wellcome to Gimp Chat, quillpenV1z
Try don't forget us and share your creations.

Isabella, thank you for such a gracious and artistic welcome. Dropped by today to see if anyone threw popcorn at me... only to be heartened by your sweet gesture! It does feel as if I'm starting over, like trying to flick lights on in a new house built with all switches on opposite sides of door frames.

Oh, gosh, I shan't forget this chat, am loving the old style format. Even added a shortcut to my cluttered desktop. I'm far more confident as a writer than daring pretend to be a digital artist. Diverse and disparate interests ("shinies") have me doodling in a quiet moment with Twisted Brush, Dogwaffle's Particles, and a fun little bit of software called AbstractCurves, to chasing fractal eyecandy on the Net, to voraciously gobbling up reams of science news.

TBH, haven't created much of anything in Gimp. Like a novice student driver with a learners permit, I'm grinding Gimp's gears and scraping fenders just parallel parking, having mostly used Gimp to open images from sites in a couple newish graphic formats so's to convert them to png or jpg. (hangs head in shame) Gimp does seem a bit easier than Daz3D or Blender, but then, my HELLO badge says, "Jackie of all trades, master of none."

I may be the only person ever to use P-shop mostly for filling out scanned forms legibly rather than scribbling in blanks longhand. Reminds of long ago, finally breaking a bad habit of turning any form or email into a ransom note with 2000 kewl fonts. Might also be the first person to put my wacom pen in an electric pencil sharpener to get a finer point on the nib... once. Just once!

Thank you again for your oil painting greeting. Timely, as I was just strolling through an on-line Monet collection earlier.
WRT sharing, Quill whispers, "maybe later" whilst slipping off the stage.

to Gimp Chat quillpenV1z!
Thanks for your interesting introduction . Many people have trouble coming from PS to Gimp because they expect gimp to be like PS. Thankfully you didn't do much graphic work with it so learning gimp should be a breeze for you.

Thank you for the pep talk, Sallyanne. Happy you found my intro interesting (as in verbose? haha)
Hope your prediction is correct about Gimp being easy to learn. Not much time for learning new software these days, though after using Gimp from time to time over the years, was prepared for "difference shock." I tend to go with what I know rather than invest much time learning new. (cough lazy cough)
Was just perusing a chat topic link (Guilloche Generator) I'd saved as a guest back in 2020. Wonder if any of Gimp Chat's talented chatters ever ironed out the compiling glitches for the utility called Mutiara? Oh, I smiled upon seeing Issabella's name there, and thought, "Small world, I know her!" heee
Next few months will be spent wandering through the tutorial links saved in 2019. Lo and behold, YOUR name comes up as having cleaned and dusted the tutorial area. Can't wait to see how many new shinies catch my eye.
Well, back to lurking and working.