Gimp 2.9.2 Released • Hacker News Board

Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Nov 28, 2015, 6:55 PM UTC

Drdrdrq wrote: post #5

Great, lots of new features. But the crucial thing for me is still marked "wontfix": allow saving to external formats directly. I often open some png or jpeg, edit it and want to save it. But no, I have to export it, confirm that I want to overwrite the file I am editing, and then confirm that I don't want to save to .xcf before closing file or Gimp. Infuriating. It makes me want to fork it just fix this nonsense, bu…

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Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released

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Post by the_mitsuhiko » Sat, Nov 28, 2015, 6:56 PM UTC

On that topic I would be curious what people use on mac other than photoshop for both Gimp and Inkscape. The best I found so far is Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer but while they are superior than Gimp and Inkscape in many regards, they are also lacking in others :(

Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released

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Post by foldr » Sat, Nov 28, 2015, 6:59 PM UTC

dchest wrote: post #2

It's still 2.8.16 in the Downloads section for me.

2.9.x are development releases.

Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released

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Post by detaro » Sat, Nov 28, 2015, 7:00 PM UTC

good support for 16 bit editing, finally! Maybe I should try to come to terms with Gimp's GUI again...

Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released

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Post by Zitrax » Sat, Nov 28, 2015, 7:05 PM UTC

detaro wrote: post #14

good support for 16 bit editing, finally! Maybe I should try to come to terms with Gimp's GUI again...

I guess it's obvious to some but I just recently learned about the single window mode even though I used gimp for years.

Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released

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Post by oskrim » Sat, Nov 28, 2015, 7:13 PM UTC

Drdrdrq wrote: post #5

Great, lots of new features. But the crucial thing for me is still marked "wontfix": allow saving to external formats directly. I often open some png or jpeg, edit it and want to save it. But no, I have to export it, confirm that I want to overwrite the file I am editing, and then confirm that I don't want to save to .xcf before closing file or Gimp. Infuriating. It makes me want to fork it just fix this nonsense, bu…

Second that, this is the only way I, and I suspect many others, ever use GIMP. The default save system is completely unintuitive in that context.

Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released

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Post by 0942v8653 » Sat, Nov 28, 2015, 7:16 PM UTC

the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #12

On that topic I would be curious what people use on mac other than photoshop for both Gimp and Inkscape. The best I found so far is Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer but while they are superior than Gimp and Inkscape in many regards, they are also lacking in others :(

You can use Gimp and Inkscape on a Mac too. Gimp works very well with it. Inkscape isn't quite as good as it runs with Ctrl-based bindings under X11.

Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released

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Post by the_mitsuhiko » Sat, Nov 28, 2015, 7:18 PM UTC

0942v8653 wrote: post #17

the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #12

On that topic I would be curious what people use on mac other than photoshop for both Gimp and Inkscape. The best I found so far is Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer but while they are superior than Gimp and Inkscape in many regards, they are also lacking in others :(

You can use Gimp and Inkscape on a Mac too. Gimp works very well with it. Inkscape isn't quite as good as it runs with Ctrl-based bindings under X11.

The experience of both is abysmal. Especially Inkscape is absolutely terrible and makes me angry every time I use it.

Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released

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Post by glesica » Sat, Nov 28, 2015, 7:31 PM UTC

Drdrdrq wrote: post #5

Great, lots of new features. But the crucial thing for me is still marked "wontfix": allow saving to external formats directly. I often open some png or jpeg, edit it and want to save it. But no, I have to export it, confirm that I want to overwrite the file I am editing, and then confirm that I don't want to save to .xcf before closing file or Gimp. Infuriating. It makes me want to fork it just fix this nonsense, bu…

I haven't used Photoshop in quite a few years, but I'm pretty sure it works (or worked) the same way as Gimp. Maybe people who do a lot of work in image editing software are accustomed to this workflow? It seems reasonable, since exporting flattens layers and such, which a professional would probably want to preserve (and may not want to risk accidentally losing).

Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released

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Post by Kjeldahl » Sat, Nov 28, 2015, 7:33 PM UTC

0942v8653 wrote: post #17

the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #12

On that topic I would be curious what people use on mac other than photoshop for both Gimp and Inkscape. The best I found so far is Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer but while they are superior than Gimp and Inkscape in many regards, they are also lacking in others :(

You can use Gimp and Inkscape on a Mac too. Gimp works very well with it. Inkscape isn't quite as good as it runs with Ctrl-based bindings under X11.

AFAIK, Gimp and Inkscape (like most gfx software from Linux) doesn't support retina resolutions either (on Mac OS X at least), leading to all kinds of problems.