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[–] [email protected] 103 points 3 days ago (15 children)

zero screenshots on the announcement page and zero screenshots on the homepage. Exactly what i expect from gimp lol

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've only used GIMP a handful of times, so please forgive my ignorance -- how does 3.0 compare to Krita or IbisPaint?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

GIMP is generally geared towards photo-editing, so if you have an existing image, you can use GIMP quite well to e.g. cut out parts of it or to apply effects.
It's not really geared towards digital painting or creating new images from scratch, like Krita and presumably IbisPaint are.

[–] [email protected] 109 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Incredible. This is one of those hard to believe moments.

It's been 21 years since the release of GIMP 2.0.

It's been more than 10 years since work on a majorly overhauled GIMP 3.0 was announced and initiated.

And it's been 7 years since the last major release (2.10).

I can't wait for the non-destructive text effects. After all these years of dealing with the fact applying drop shadows meant the text couldn't be edited, at last it's no longer an issue.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As a long time - pre version 2 - gimp user my first thought was "what, don't be ridiculous" and now I dont know what to feel. Why would you do this to me personally

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago

Version numbers are basically meaningless.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

FUCK YES!!!!!

I’ve been waiting for this for years! Omg, what awesome news!!

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 days ago (2 children)

So in the end we got gimp 3 before GTA 6

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago

Already on flathub. Nice modern packaging world. https://github.com/flathub/org.gimp.GIMP

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

It finally happened!?!

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