GIMP is a professional, pixelbased image manipulation program. It is open source and free to download from gimp.org. On many Linux distributions GIMP is already preinstalled.

Because GIMP is [open source / free] software you can customize everything to meet your needs. This step by step instruction shows you how to

This tutorial requires an installation of GIMP 2.8 on your computer.

1. Set GIMP to single window mode

Open up GIMP, click on Window and check single window mode.

2. Hide Layer Boundaries

Click on Edit → Settings, maximise the category Image window and choose the sub-category Display. Uncheck show layer boundaries (both on the display settings of the normal mode and fullscreen mode).

This removes the yellow-black dashed border around layers.

3. Set the colour of the canvas frame

In the same window you can change the Mode of the canvas frame. Choose Custom colour from the drop-down menu. In the next line click on the rectangular box to choose a colour. (Photoshop uses the colour #282828)

4. Edit keyboard shortcuts

Using Photoshop’s keyboard shortcuts in GIMP has two advantages:

I’ve used the latest version of Photoshop CC (released in April 2016) for a reference.

Additional info (unimportant): A great majority of Photoshop’s keyboard shortcuts could be assigned to GIMP very well. However there are some exceptions.

You could edit the keyboard shortcuts manually by clicking on Edit → keyboard shortcuts. GIMP saves the shortcuts in a file called menurc.

Because I’ve already done the work you can simply replace the contents of your menurc file…

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You can read the article in its entirety, on the official website of https://helpfulpenguin.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/how-to-make-gimp-look-and-work-more-like-photoshop/

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