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Libre Arts - GIMP 3.0 finally has a release schedule (librearts.org)

submitted 7 months ago by Matth78 to c/[email protected]

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Their goal is to release for may 24.

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[–] Matth78 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I admit for the very limited things I do and only occasionally I use Paint.net

Still in my mind Gimp is much more powerful?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It is powerful, but usability is as shit as it always has been. Except for specific use cases Krita is the way to go nowadays. Even if it's focussed on digital painting, it has almost everything you need for digital editing as well, with a much more user friendly UX.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I think the main problem with GIMP is that it was made by developers with developers in mind, completely ignoring how digital artists work. Like it or not, everybody has to take pages from Photoshop (and co.) like how Affinity and Krita are doing, otherwise there's really no incentive to completely change your workflow.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

So much. Yes. How do we all agree on this and yet it hasn't sunk in after twenty five years?

I mean, Blender got it. Be like Blender.

Gimp never even needed to be as robust as Photoshop. All anybody needs is a OSS alternative to casually touch up a photo every now and then if you aren't forced by life to be one of Adobe's hostages. Just give me a vaguely Photoshop-like thing with a semi-competent context aware filter that isn't physically painful to use. Kryta and others will pick up the slack for all the painting stuff.

[–] Psaldorn 11 points 7 months ago

As a developer I still find it an extremely frustrating and unintuitive experience.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Yeah the GUI is horrible with Gimp but it is very powerful software. I'm used to it's idiosyncrasities but it really needs a GUI refresh. It's powerful software held back from it's full potential.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I use it a fair amount. But I think the name is still an issue for some people. They should change it to GLIMPSE. GNU Libre Image Manipulation Program SoftwarE ... or something