GIMP 2.9.4 and our vision for the future

Post by babuskov » Sat, Jul 30, 2016, 7:36 PM UTC

gkya wrote: post #77

imurray wrote: post #37

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No it's not the same amount of clicking. From Gimp 2.7 to 2.8 something that used to be ctrl-s and close window went to ctrl-shift-e, and answering four dialog boxes before getting the image saved and the window closed. Around the time Gimp 2.8 came out, I wanted to edit and save around 50 images (in away that wasn't easy to automate). That (without the plugin that gives the old behavior) would be 200 dialog boxes to…

IIRC Ctrl shift e is export as, and ctrl e exports with no questions.

Post by babuskov » Sat, Jul 30, 2016, 7:37 PM UTC

jorams wrote: post #22

imurray wrote: post #20

Gimp 2.8 frustrated me: I could no longer open a .png, edit it and easily resave it back to .png. The Gimp developers knew better and made the UI strongly favor saving as .xcf, which makes sense in some use-cases, but not mine. I found this fix, which made quick uses of GIMP less painful for me: http://shallowsky.com/software/gimp-save/ I'm assuming the new save behavior persists in Gimp 2.9.x, but I don't know.

That was initially confusing to me as well, but it isn't that bad. If you open a .png (or similar) and edit it, there's a button in the File menu (I believe shortcut ctrl-shift-e) that exports directly to the original filename.

Post by mdadm » Sat, Jul 30, 2016, 7:45 PM UTC

StevePerkins wrote: post #34

imurray wrote: post #20

Gimp 2.8 frustrated me: I could no longer open a .png, edit it and easily resave it back to .png. The Gimp developers knew better and made the UI strongly favor saving as .xcf, which makes sense in some use-cases, but not mine. I found this fix, which made quick uses of GIMP less painful for me: http://shallowsky.com/software/gimp-save/ I'm assuming the new save behavior persists in Gimp 2.9.x, but I don't know.

> less painful for me I realize that this is common UX jargon, but is it literally "painful" to click "File->Export" rather than "File->Save"? I frequently hear front-end developer peers arguing that it's "painful" to read 10 or 20 lines of XML. Back-end peers retort that it's more "painful" to look at large complex structures in JSON. There's a hundred other cases in which this comes up. Are people really walking ar…

Post by err4nt » Sat, Jul 30, 2016, 8:39 PM UTC

oggedintocom wrote: post #2

GIMP is an icon of open-source software, but do any professional designers use it full-time over Photoshop? Compare with Sketch, which has taken scores of users from Illustrator.

Post by Someone » Sat, Jul 30, 2016, 8:56 PM UTC

unabst wrote: post #88

userbinator wrote: post #46

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Photoshop will save in the original format unless you do something to the image that isn't supported in that format (e.g. adding vectors, layers, layer filters, etc.) Then it will switch to .psd, although you still get the option of saving in the original format with Save As. I think that is a good design.

What would be better is having a dialog that says "You've used some additional features that can only be saved in .psd format: Save as PNG || Save as PSD || Save as something else" with the first being the default for when you press ENTER.