I now find myself using Photopea more than GIMP. Photopea is a browser-based photoshop clone. From what I understand it was built by just one guy, and it is in some ways better than GIMP. Pretty amazing work.
Gimp 3 Beta Released
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#22Gimp 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
Donations are used to pay the core developers of GIMP:
https://www.gimp.org/donating/
Most work on GNU software is either done unpaid by volunteers or paid for by companies like RedHat who spend engineer time on it.
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#23So um...
Does it have an auto-save function yet?
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#24Does anyone know about CMYK support?
I remember years ago it was a planned feature, but recently I tried to gather info about it and could not find anything. Has the team decided to remove it from scope?
Currently I know of Cyan[1] as an open source tool that I can use to prepare an asset for printing, happy to hear about any other good alternatives.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?".
If this is true you should really get those users to give you objective evidence that 1) they exist and 2) they feel this urgent about it then, at the very least
Edit: Probably not in the form of HN search results though? Lol come on, a bit of a quality issue there if we're going for objectivity.
GIMP devs have been hammered by highly subjective UX & feature critics for decades now. They are humans and know they'd be doing work on behalf of people who seem complainy, persistent, and lacking perspective compared to their own priority view. So, software Karens? :-) Where's the carrot? How is this issue supposed to turn out well for anyone involved?
If it's really objective and a big deal and not just subjective annoyance compounded by years of boundaries set in your path, show the proof and be convincing about it. And this may seem a stretch but I think it can be done gently if you will it.
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#26And 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…
This is the single biggest problem with Gimp.
As long as it is missing, you have to duplicate layers and do some mental version control, which becomes really memory intensive after you have descended the tree a few steps. That's why you cannot really recommend Gimp to anyone, who wants to work professionally with it.
It is also a reason why Gimp cannot get better at Photoshop compatibility, so the issue even blocks the second biggest reason hindering further Gimp adoption.
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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
I'm not exactly sure what causes it to happen, but it's technically still there. If you change the background color to black you will be able to see it again. I guess something causes it to be rendered as white on a white background.
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#28> Plugins now possible with Python 3, JavaScript, Lua, and Vala Do Adobe products supports that?
Hm, and you have things like the fact that Nim compiles to JS, so this is getting interesting...
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?".
If this is true you should really get those users to give you objective evidence that 1) they exist and 2) they feel this urgent about it then, at the very least Edit: Probably not in the form of HN search results though? Lol come on, a bit of a quality issue there if we're going for objectivity. GIMP devs have been hammered by highly subjective UX & feature critics for decades now. They are humans and know they'd be…
get those users to give you objective
evidence that they exist
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Here are a few hundred thousand:
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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
I'm not exactly sure what causes it to happen, but it's technically still there. If you change the background color to black you will be able to see it again. I guess something causes it to be rendered as white on a white background.
yeah, saw it but the problem is, on "this" white page, the mouse movement does not display the green scroll indicator. i tried it with HN which it does, i move the mouse just a bit and it tells me where in the page i am. there must be a bug somewhere