LOL! I feel your pain there. I’ll open it occasionally to play around with. I actually use it to scan from my scanner/printer. Creating something from scrathc, though—that’s a whole ‘nother animal.
I have a nice high resolution map of the US with major roads on it. One of my quirks is I like to keep track of places I've been/driven. Hey, I like to drive and I hate what flying has become.
So I have this graphic (roughly 5k pixels on a side) and I'd like to highlight the roads I've driven. Simple, right? Well, I did import the jpg and get it saved as xcf. Even figured out that putting the highlights on a separate layer would be kind of cool (think transparency). But why is it so #$!^&*?! hard to define and/or use a very small bursh? I don't want to blot out a county at a time off I-95 just 'cause I drove down it one fall. I don't want to blot out half of lake Mead just 'cause I drove across the Hoover dam. I've tried the tutorials, tried the sliders...sigh. Then there's color. How hard is it (or should it be) to simply say I want a red brush? Just red. Why do I have to keep redefining what red every time?
The really frustrating thing - I suspect it is me. While I'm sure gimp is not the most user friendly application out there, I know, I mean I KNOW it can't be as hard as I'm making it. That's what really frustrates me - gimp makes me look like an idiot. Some of my highlights are slightly different shades of red than others. Some of them have soft edges, some hard. Some are noticeably segmented, others very smooth...sigh