Gimp is 25 years old today

Compared to Photoshop or Lightroom levels of quality editing, it's a bit weak and seems to modify contrast too much when loading images, but I love using it for quick edits of my own photos. Nice, light application and since it's free, hardly can expect some of the deeper quality I've gotten from paid platforms.

Re: Gimp is 25 years old today

#5

Post by dwiize » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 4:46 AM UTC

Finally time for a new name?

Re: Gimp is 25 years old today

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Post by dau » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 4:46 AM UTC

earthboundkid wrote: post #2

And it doesn’t look a day over 30.

they should invite the Blender people over to fix the UI for them :-)

Re: Gimp is 25 years old today

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Post by manaskarekar » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 4:47 AM UTC

GIMP has been one of my constantly used software for over 20 years. I recall messing with text effects and some Python-fu. Still use it to this day for all kinds of editing.

And it gave us GTK!

Congrats.

Re: Gimp is 25 years old today

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Post by amiga-workbench » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 4:47 AM UTC

dwiize wrote: post #5

Finally time for a new name?

There's already a fork for that, and it doesn't appear to have much mindshare.

Re: Gimp is 25 years old today

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Post by fortran77 » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 4:52 AM UTC

dwiize wrote: post #5

Finally time for a new name?

Agreed. It's an unfortunate word. There are better choices that wouldn't exclude people.

Re: Gimp is 25 years old today

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Post by noahth » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 4:55 AM UTC

dwiize wrote: post #5

Finally time for a new name?

It would have been a perfect opportunity to rename the project, but until then, in case anyone reading this isn't aware, there's prior work for a fork under a new name, as Glimpse -- https://glimpse-editor.github.io/

I can attest that Glimpse works as expected, and you don't have to wince when a client asks what tools you used.