GIMP - GIMP 3.0 RC1 Released
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Release news for version GIMP 3.0 RC1

2024-11-06 by GIMP Team

We are very excited to share the first release candidate for the long-awaited GIMP 3.0! We’ve been hard at work since our last development update to get this ready, and we’re looking forward to everyone finally being able to see the results.

So, what exactly is a “release candidate” (RC)? A release candidate is something that might be ready to be GIMP 3.0, but we want the larger community to test it first and report any problems they find. If user feedback reveals only small and easy to fix bugs, we will solve those problems and issue the result as GIMP 3.0. However, we hope and expect a much larger audience to try out 3.0 RC1 - including many people who have only been using 2.10 up until now. If larger bugs and regressions are uncovered that require more substantial code changes, we may need to publish a second release candidate for further testing.

  • DdCno1@beehaw.org
    12·
    19 hours ago

    Haven’t tried it for quite some time, but does it finally have a UI designed by and for human beings instead of Vogons?

    • mtchristo@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 hours ago

      There is a project called photogimp. Witch tries to copy PS ui and it keybindings. Wait until a stable release of gimp 3.0 and they will update their fork with this release.

      • DdCno1@beehaw.org
        1·
        2 hours ago

        These kinds of conversions have been around for decades. They usually don’t survive big version jumps.

    • thingsiplay@beehaw.orgOP
      8·
      18 hours ago

      No UI change. I personally like the UI, but if you dislike it, well its still the same. I really don’t understand what problem with the UI you have…

      • Naich@lemmings.world
        6·
        14 hours ago

        I can’t say I like it, but it’s not that bad. Certainly no where near as bad as some of the clusterfuck chaotic crap that Microsoft inflict on us.

        • DdCno1@beehaw.org
          1·
          2 hours ago

          Eh, depends. Windows? Sure, it’s highly inconsistent. Their console UIs? Waste of screen space. Office though? It’s so far ahead of Libre Office, it’s not even funny - and I’m saying this as someone who was using Open and Libre Office for decades. Both feel positively ancient by comparison and anything more complex than basic document formatting (which also works far better in MS Office) is a chore.

    • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      14 hours ago

      Coming from RISC OS art programs, I found GIMP’s UI perfectly intuitive. I had used PS for a few years after Acorn and before GIMP. It’s just different UI paradigms.

      • DdCno1@beehaw.org
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Coming from Photoshop 6 (which came out in 2000), Gimp is still playing catch up with that ancient program in terms of basic usability.

        • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          To you. It fit me like a glove straight away. It just made sense to me. It’s quite RISC OS like with the multiple windows thing. I used it first in about 1999 when flirting with Linux (CorelLinux) after Acorn and before Windows. Then switch about 2006 when where I was clamped down on pirate software at the workplace and bought PS for artists.

          • DdCno1@beehaw.org
            1·
            1 hour ago

            You have to admit though that your background is quite unusual. I would assume that there are far more people looking for a free alternative to Photoshop after having used Photoshop for a long time (especially in the wake of the switch to a subscription model, but even earlier when prices were increased) instead of coming from an OS and using tools written for an OS that even among techies are extremely niche.

            • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
              1·
              31 minutes ago

              My point is intuitive isn’t the same for everyone.

              GIMP doesn’t come from a clone of PS. It has it’s own history and its users are used to it as it is. Any change to be a PS clone isn’t what it’s existing users (and developers) want. Forks to do this have come and gone. Single window mode is all that came out of mainline GIMP to appeal to PS users. This is part of a thing with open source, it’s not possible to force something on the developers. You have to fork, work hard, win people over and become the new main branch. GIMP mainline keeps winning those battles.

              Edit: oh and I am totally a freak in my software background outside of British computer people my age.