In this video, I provide an overview of the 5 best or most exciting features coming to the highly-anticipated GIMP 3.0 release! These are my 5 favorite new features coming to GIMP 3.0, including non-destructive editing, smart guides, and CMYK support.
I’m super happy and excited for GIMP 3.0. I hate that this info was presented in a youtube video. I can gleam what I want to know from an article with bullet points (which I could find) but I’m sick of half the information I search for being returned in a video, with a fixed time commitment and imprecise “scrolling” to skip. I feel like in search and link aggregators, more and more content is video instead of text and I’m not here for it.
+1 for the GIMP3 excitement, and ×1,000,000 for the YouTube gripe.
Depends on the context. We’re talking about an image editor, so showing a demo of the features in video form is helpful.
Can we have both? A concise textual description and a video exemplifying the features?
For all the shortcomings of AI, and specially of Google’s Gemini model, its YouTube integration is really good for this, even more so on Android where you can set it as your default assistant and ask a question about the video you’re currently watching without having to switch apps.
Asking for a bullet point list, it gave me this:
- Nondestructive editing
- Dynamic guides or smart guides
- CMYK support
- Outline text
- Multi-layer features and layer sets
Nondestructive editing
This wasn’t already the case??
Nope, layer effects were destructive, couldn’t go back and tweak a effect, had to make a copy of the layer every time before the change and apply it again.
Insert vaguely relevant Xkcd:
But think of the illiterate people! /s
Ok, but have they fixed the UI scaling in high-DPI displays?
To be honest, complaining that “half of the information” is in a video form is so stupid. Stick to the written sources and be happy that the other half of the information is supplied the way you want it.
Obviously there is a market for video content, and there is probably as many people liking it as disliking it. I am a dyslexictic person that can understand and remember way better when I am spoon fed the information instead of struggle through a long blog post or news site.
Please be open minded that we are different.
Video gets higher engagement. If you want your information to be consumed, video is a better bet.
That will not stop every video from having a top comment complaining about it though.
I prefer written content myself. But, as you say, I am happy for content in whatever form I can get it. I did not pay for it. How it is generated and shared is not up to me.
Soon I hope, we will have a bot that transcribes every video. Then that can be the top comment instead of the endless complaining.
Being able to select multiple layers at the same time was a feature requested 11 years ago. Now it is finally here.
3.0 is gonna be so good 🦾
the gimp nightly builds seem to be pretty stable now. if you want to try out the latest and greatest features, you can easily install them with flatpak.
Ok, but have they fixed the UI scaling on high-DPI displays?
yea
That’s the only reason why I have never been able to use GIMP. I have 4k monitors and the UI on it is all jacked up
Davies Media Design is a fantastic channel. Additionally here are links from the developers:
- official page for roadmap of GIMP: https://developer.gimp.org/core/roadmap/
- Milestones of the source code: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/milestones
indeed! a few years ago i finally bit the bullet and decided to learn how use gimp with his tutorials and i haven’t missed photoshop since.
Awesome, was that his GIMP masterclass? I’m thinking of doing that one.
just this youtube video https://youtu.be/2EPIUyFJ4ag
The Fx pipelines are fucking sick! Finally I can depricate my meme-text script!
Are they going to unfuck the layer management UI?
What a wonderful world that would be. Fingers crossed.
Is Python scripting working on version 3.0? For the life of me I can’t get that to work on version 2 (whichever version).
Non destructive editing? Object snapping? Font Outlines? i honestly didn’t know gimp couldn’t do thay :o these basic features all seem like they should ve been added 10 years ago
Ah. So gimp is going to stop being 15 years out of date and instead going to be just 10 years out of date. Cool.
Send in a pull request.
this is a gnome project, that’s not how it tends to work
closed “Not A Bug” “WontFix”
“Please make Gimp relevant” would be a pretty interesting pull request.
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A pull request, in its most basic form, is the request for a change. The joke is that the change I’d be requesting is to make Gimp more relevant, as there isn’t just one feature or quality of life change that Gimp would need.
The loudest and most negative voices are always consumers, not contributors. They just saw the word “request”.
