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Gimp 2.9.2 Released

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Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released

#32

Post by noamyoungerm »

glesica wrote: post #19
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).

IIRC, the workflow in Photoshop is this: If you open a photo file, and when you press save there is only one layer in the file, pressing ctrl+s will not change the file format. Generally this means that minor changes (crop, recolor) preserve file types, while larger ones require you to export.

Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released

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Post by prokoudine »

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…

If that is your primary use case, all you need to do is to assign Ctrl+S to Overwrite command instead. Boom, you got your saving back.

Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released

#36

Post by prokoudine »

dchest wrote: post #10
KhalilK wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here you go http://download.gimp.org/mirror/pub/gimp/v2.9/ It's a development release so it was in the Development snapshots section.

Thanks! There's no osx folder, so I guess there are no OS X binaries for development snapshots.

Not yet.

Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released

#37

Post by demian00 »

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 think the perfect work flow would be to automatically save a .xfc(could even be hidden) file and a name_edit.png file.

Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released

#38

Post by Ralfp »

glesica wrote: post #19
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).

In PS you have "save as" dialogue in which you pick extension, and "save for web" which additionally lets you fine-tune optimisation.

In gimp ctrl+s brings you "save image" dialogue that explictly forbids you from saving anything but XCF, which I too find very annoying when doing quick fixes in batch of graphics that don't have xcf source.

Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released

#39

Post by macco »

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…

There's a plugin for that :)

Maybe this is for you: https://github.com/akkana/gimp-plugins/blob/master/save-expo...

Re: Gimp 2.9.2 Released

#40

Post by Ralfp »

hunvreus wrote: post #21

My main issue with Gimp was and still is the user experience. Every year I try and get back to using it, and every year I realize it doesn't compare to things like Sketch, Acorn or Adobe's suite. That's honestly the only reason I am still using MacOS.

There are also Affinity's Photo and Design apps for Mac that are very promising.
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