I'm patiently waiting for resynthesizer to be ported. Then I will make the move to 3.0. I've used GIMP exclusively as my image editor for the past two decades and it has fulfilled my needs for web development. I really don't get all the gripe around it. It's one of the most valuable free programs on my PC. Sure, it does take time and possibly customization to get yourself a comfortable workflow. But once you get it down, you can do basically everything you need with keyboard shortcuts and blaze thru editing really quickly.
I really want Gimp to succeed. It's a software I've been trying to use since more than 20 years now but the UX is so clunky.... and different than Photoshop. Muscle Memory is a thing.
I'm moving my main machine from macOS to Linux (which I also used partially since 20years), moving from a mac mini M1 to a lovely Lenovo M75Q-1 and so far the experience has been great.
I'm a (enthusiast) photographer and I have big hopes for that 3.0 release of Gimp. I'm ready to learn something else and freeing myself from Adobe.
If I can manage my workflow, that will probably seal the deal. Everything else works fine and is unbelivably smooth while macOS had been very frustrating lately.
Serious question: Has anyone proficient in Photoshop given GIMP a proper go and come out the other side wanting to use it?
Isn’t it time to start providing wasm plugin support in most apps or too early?
I wonder if this Gimp stuff can be used to work with 3D model files like TMD and TMD_TOON files.
I tried 3.0 RC2 the other day and discovered that the new UI is much less space efficient. It imported my panel layout from 2.10 (which I spent a long time getting just right), and I had to completely rearrange it to get it to fit on a 1080px tall monitor. Very frustrating.
Also, it doesn't detect my drawing tablet.
a bit (un)related but is it somehow possible to resize text layers without pixelating them on Gimp? i stopped searching years ago
Will continue to say it, this piece of software that could be a mainstream huge deal, a straight-up Adobe killer, will never do this unless it changes its name.
I've mostly given up hope on this, but it's still wild that people who work on the software just seem to very stubbornly not understand this.
Whether you want to blame it on ableism, or perhaps simply "you should name your software after something/someone skilled or professional, not literally the opposite," you're preventing people like me (IT teaching, a go-between between techies and non-techies) from being able to recommend it.
Luckily, Krita's here and for better or worse does the AI stuff.
As is tradition, all threads about an open source project must be kicked off with non-contributers putting shit on it unconstructively.
Gimp 3 - Duke nukem forever!
It’s time for a new name. “gimp” may be semantically correct but it hardly prepares one for a “friendly and powerful graphics editing tool”.
Side question : can an LLM which nas no idea of how to write plugins for Gimp ingest this page (and the links to the C api and Python api) and write code by itself ?
> As with GIMP 2.10, GIMP 3.0 ships with a Python interpreter embedded and will not use the system Python.
This is great and I wish this was the same with other tools, like Kicad, Freecad and Inkscape.