Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users

Post by NetMageSCW » Wed, May 20, 2026, 5:31 AM UTC

lynndotpy wrote: post #175

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> Respectfully, that's kind of a ridiculous "impression," easily refuted by many of us who have wanted to recommend GIMP to people. Is it though? Almost every time the topic is discussed, I see someone in the comments only then learning that the word is also known by some as a slur. > Like, if the word "poop" was in the name of some otherwise good software. Except that ‘poop’ is a common word with a single common mea…

I think "Do people commonly understand 'gimp' as a derogatory word?" is the wrong question. The right question is, "Did _enough_ people understand 'gimp' as a derogatory word to harm its adoption?" and the answer is probably yes. The people complaining about GIMP's name are the ones who love and use it, who have seen the name cause problems. There's a modicum of grief for the counterfactual (of how much better GIMP m…

Post by Mashimo » Wed, May 20, 2026, 6:37 AM UTC

cmyk_student wrote: post #196

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I don't know the current status, but at least last time I checked you could not have strokes/outline on text, and afterwards change the text :( It's such a little thing that makes gimp annoying to use. And it affects a broad audience. Wedding cards or youtube title thumbnails. Maybe it works now. I hope. Non destructive layer resize works now, right?

Non-destructive text outline has been around for a while now: https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/11/18/gimp-2-99-14-released/#... Non-destructive resize works on vector layers and link layers (essentially "smart objects" in GIMP). We have the capability to do this for regular layers too - just need to connect some things and change some internal assumptions about transform filters.

Post by dragochat » Wed, May 20, 2026, 8:59 AM UTC

Post by stuaxo » Wed, May 20, 2026, 10:53 AM UTC

mixmastamyk wrote: post #117

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While I agree, and I've been hammering this point as a GIMP user for two decades I think the "GIMP is actually a fine name" are increasingly a minority. Its name makes GIMP hostile to user adoption. Anyone who works in a primarily English-spekaing country knows what it's like to try to use GIMP at work, especially in K-12. It's not like it was an accident, either. GIMP is a backronym because they wanted to name it af…

It’s only the British (and influenced by) who have a negative view of the name. The rest of us don’t care, and wish you’d quit bringing it up. For example there’s a juice company here in the US named ’Suja,’ and it’s obvious they have no Brazilian employees because it means dirty/obscene in Portuguese. Simple words sometimes mean unfortunate things in other countries. Adults get over them.

Post by stuaxo » Wed, May 20, 2026, 11:05 AM UTC

cmyk_student wrote: post #193

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Another lesson GIMP could take from Blender is the importance of a python REPL that updates with the analog commands to the menu items you're clicking. GIMP allows scripting from some kind of lisp, but in many hours of attempt I've never gotten it to do what I know it can do. But I was effective in blender within seconds because it allowed me to directly translate my actions to code.

GIMP has a Python console, and several built-in plug-ins are written in Python: https://docs.gimp.org/3.2/en/gimp-filters-python-fu.html We want to make macros simpler (some of the work I helped out with for GIMP 3.0 was to lay the groundwork for automated/recordable operations), but as with all the things on our roadmap it takes time and developers.