That's an old post from 2020. Here's a more recent beta from February 2022: https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/02/25/gimp-2-99-10-released/
That's better, but even that one is old enough to make me wonder why it would be on the front page in May.
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#12imagine a world where blender/kdenlive/gimp/libreoffice are proper alternatives to commercial software and people use them just because they are not "web based" or subscription only or avoid linux users like the plague which adobe/autodesk/microsoft do with their products.
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#13I can't explain why but I keep getting the uncanny valley feeling whenever I try to use GIMP after years of Photoshop. Hopefully the improved device support will help
Uncanny valley may not mean what one of us thinks.
Not in the literal definition but the feeling that something inexplicable is off is similar
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#14dude, this is really weird. my firefox on kde neon is not showing scrollbar on the side. is this because of some JS fuckery? it "feels" weird
That is a feature of Firefox 100. You can disable it in the settings if you don't like it.
wait, what? HN shows the scroll everytime i move the mouse or move the page but not on this specific page same for every other page i've visited in the last week or two weeks
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#15Gimp is amazing, I'm always curious, how does GNU project keep maintaining all of these high quality software for free? do they get a lot of money from donation? where do the fund comes from to feed the developers who maintain all of these? regardless, congrats for the release! I wish them all the luck and thanks for supporting the software community
The etymology of the name notwithstanding, Gimp is not a GNU project.
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#16And again no non-destructive adjustment layers, the saga continues!
When I talk to designers about Gimp they say "Uh, I tried it once years ago. But back then it was so archaic that you could not even change the contrast settings after you did something else to the image".
Little do they know. It is still that archaic.
12 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2091318
11 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2890549
10 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4814360
9 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5912145
8 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8969088
7 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9932717
6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12092173
5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15101108
4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17926027
3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20422647
2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25012155
1 year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29005637
Today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31419514
Don't get me wrong. I use Gimp daily and love it. I am very grateful to the people who build it. But how this feature can be ignored after people have been begging for it for over a decade now is beyond me. As far as I can see, it is the number one reason why people do not consider Gimp as a Photoshop replacement.
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#17Are there any good alternatives to gimp in Ubuntu repository?
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#18I can't explain why but I keep getting the uncanny valley feeling whenever I try to use GIMP after years of Photoshop. Hopefully the improved device support will help
Having used Photoshop almost daily between the 5 and CS3 days (after switching from PaintShop Pro) I still find GIMP an absolute pain to use aside from fairly basic re-touching and adjustment or 'oh look generic word-art' despite repeatedly giving it second chances.
The GIMP just doesn't manage to hit the productivity nexus for anything constructive. Simple things are annoying, complex things are infuriating, vector support sucks, mixed vector/raster mode with layer styles doesn't really exist, layer management is barely reaching parity with where Photoshop was 20 years ago, and overall it has consistently left me frustrated and unable to get into the flow - you have to work around its deficits rather than being able to compose its features in novel ways.
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#19And again no non-destructive adjustment layers, the saga continues! When I talk to designers about Gimp they say "Uh, I tried it once years ago. But back then it was so archaic that you could not even change the contrast settings after you did something else to the image". Little do they know. It is still that archaic. 12 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2091318 11 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.c…
Why post this kind of thing on an announcement though...I mean it seems pretty harsh, if not rude.
If you can't get traction and it's really objectively that big of an issue, a separate post seems more appropriate.
I taught Photoshop at the college level prior to 2010, offered experienced PS students extra credit to try out and evaluate software like GIMP, and many of them thanked me for the experience and went on to use it in their professional life. Those who didn't want to take the PS route seemed more than happy to duplicate layers as backups and work destructively a lot of the time, too. We focused on pixel editing logic quite a bit so maybe that's why.
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#20And again no non-destructive adjustment layers, the saga continues! When I talk to designers about Gimp they say "Uh, I tried it once years ago. But back then it was so archaic that you could not even change the contrast settings after you did something else to the image". Little do they know. It is still that archaic. 12 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2091318 11 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.c…
Why post this kind of thing on an announcement though...I mean it seems pretty harsh, if not rude. If you can't get traction and it's really objectively that big of an issue, a separate post seems more appropriate. I taught Photoshop at the college level prior to 2010, offered experienced PS students extra credit to try out and evaluate software like GIMP, and many of them thanked me for the experience and went on to…
I agree that it feels a bit harsh. I feel a bit guilty.
But "silent mouths don't get fed". And I think I am speaking for a large number of users. And it's been over ten years now. So the voice of users might become a bit louder? I dunno. I read through all the features in the announcement and think "I don't need any of that. Who asked for all these things? Are they really user driven?".