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GIMP - Development Update: Closing In on the 3.0 Release Candidate (www.gimp.org)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 months ago (9 children)

I never thought I'd witness the release of 3.0 in my lifetime

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

obviously looking forward to the non destructive editing updates and darktable integration sounds really nice, big fan of darktable.

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 2 months ago (13 children)

I’d really love if somebody would give GIMP the Blender treatment. It’s very good software but some of the UI paradigms are quite outdated. All their floating windows and dialogs do not work well on multiple screens.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (5 children)

https://graphite.rs looks like it might replace gimp at some point

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe? It looks like it’s tuned towards generative use cases. Sometimes you need to just edit a photo really quickly and setting up a bunch of nondestructive nodes seems like more of a hassle than help.

But hopefully I’m wrong! This is the first I’ve heard of the project.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Nose based software typically still has a sidebar ala Lightroom for quick things. Both Blender and Graphite use this approach. Nodes are for when you want to go further.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Beautiful work .... I really don't mind the long wait between releases ... the previous Gimp 2.0 versions were so robust and practical that they have lasted for close to 20 years

In the early 2000s, I started off with cracked version of photoshop before I discovered GIMP and as soon as I did, I stuck with them since. They've saved me several thousand dollars in software costs over the past 20 years that I really don't mind waiting for the latest major release.

They can take their time releasing 3.0 for all I care. I'm still using 2.10 and I probably will for the next long while until 3.0 becomes stable. They've done a mountainous amount of work already and I congratulate them on everything.

This makes me realize too that I should probably donate something to their community for all the money they've saved me over the years.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago

Oh man, I’m SO EXCITED for GIMP 3. I’ve been wanting these features in GIMP for literally decades.

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