Gimp 3.0.0 Is Released

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Post by mkurz » Mon, Mar 17, 2025, 12:18 PM UTC

Re: Gimp 3.0.0 Is Released

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Post by nomilk » Mon, Mar 17, 2025, 12:26 PM UTC

I really wanted to love gimp but I found the UI hard to navigate. I felt like I was missing panes and sure enough after 45 minutes of searching indecipherable icons I’d randomly discover a gimp pane tucked behind a completely different macOS app. It was like a magic trick designed to infuriate.

I switched to figma and it’s not perfect but a huge breath of fresh air. The infinitely sized canvas is so damn sensible, why haven’t graphics programs always done that!? And the url figma.new is so convenient. I also use Canva a bit for effects. All free versions. I also heard photopea is good.

I might try gimp 3 again.

Re: Gimp 3.0.0 Is Released

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Post by timonoko » Mon, Mar 17, 2025, 12:33 PM UTC

nomilk wrote: post #2

I really wanted to love gimp but I found the UI hard to navigate. I felt like I was missing panes and sure enough after 45 minutes of searching indecipherable icons I’d randomly discover a gimp pane tucked behind a completely different macOS app. It was like a magic trick designed to infuriate. I switched to figma and it’s not perfect but a huge breath of fresh air. The infinitely sized canvas is so damn sensible, wh…

Hidden secrets lie in Windows-->Dockable Dialogs.

Also "Recently Closed Docks" is useful, because one often closes them by mishap.

Re: Gimp 3.0.0 Is Released

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Post by sidkshatriya » Mon, Mar 17, 2025, 12:38 PM UTC

In the many years waiting for the 3.0.0 release have other OSS painting programs matured that have more features overall ? Is this obsolete on arrival ?

Re: Gimp 3.0.0 Is Released

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Post by frendiversity » Mon, Mar 17, 2025, 12:42 PM UTC

Outstanding software, incredible. Thank you so much.

Re: Gimp 3.0.0 Is Released

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Post by unsupp0rted » Mon, Mar 17, 2025, 1:08 PM UTC

nomilk wrote: post #2

I really wanted to love gimp but I found the UI hard to navigate. I felt like I was missing panes and sure enough after 45 minutes of searching indecipherable icons I’d randomly discover a gimp pane tucked behind a completely different macOS app. It was like a magic trick designed to infuriate. I switched to figma and it’s not perfect but a huge breath of fresh air. The infinitely sized canvas is so damn sensible, wh…

> why haven’t graphics programs always done that

Memory constraints at first. Then inertia.

Re: Gimp 3.0.0 Is Released

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 17, 2025, 1:29 PM UTC

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Re: Gimp 3.0.0 Is Released

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Post by JohnFen » Mon, Mar 17, 2025, 2:00 PM UTC

sidkshatriya wrote: post #4

In the many years waiting for the 3.0.0 release have other OSS painting programs matured that have more features overall ? Is this obsolete on arrival ?

If there is, I'm not aware of it.