I don’t see that, I don’t pay for it and I have an adblocker.

They’re getting spammed with the AI stuff.

Corps who would rather have AI looking images instead of using stock photos love the AI stuff.

I’ve been pushing everyone else to photopea.com which is photoshop sans-ai in the browser.

Do you understand how bitmaps and raster drawing works?

Yes I know the difference between vector and bitmaps

Everything is represented as a 2d array of pixels.

Only after the rasterization has taken place.

The circle selection before you paint can be moved/scaled/etc and then when you actually want to draw the circle trace the path with the appropriate thickness and use antialiasing if you need to smooth it.

The problem is that the selection itself can lose information, it’s handled internally as a raster mask. That’s why you should use a real vector shape.

If you want to make vector drawings, take a look at InkScape. GIMP is the wrong tool for that, so use the right tool for the job if that’s what you want to do.

No. Raster editors can support vector shapes. They vectors are rasterized during the final export, not while creating the shape (which is lossy and what selection shapes are).

Look at how to create, move and transform a circle in photoshop (or if you don’t want to give adobe money, use photopea).

Raster editing programs can support vector shapes. They are rasterised during export, not when the shape is created.

Look at how to create, move and transform a circle in photoshop (or if you don’t want to give adobe money, use photopea).

That’s not a circle, that’s a grid of pixels being colored in. It’s a lossy representation of something else.

A circle is a shape which is a graphics primitive. Graphics primitives can be moved, transformed, skewed, etc… with no loss of information.

If you do that with a grid of pixels, you’re going to lose information.

Edit: Five downvotes. Apparently people don’t know how to use vectors in bitmap authoring software, or why selections are the lossy way to create shapes. See details in my comments below.

No, that was Fish who made Fez, announced Fez 2, then crashed out after some poor communication on his part and left.