GIMP - GIMP 3.0 RC1 Released
GIMP - GIMP 3.0 RC1 Released
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.
i should use this program more often, i heard it's actually good and thought it'd be nice to learn how to use it lol
I would encourage you to do so. I do not think it would be wrong to learn how to use a common Open Source program like this. If you watch lot of YouTube, there is a channel Davies Media Design that teaches a lot of stuff in GIMP:
- YouTube directly: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq79-lfj2w7oRXGRcOP2B7g
- or through Invidious (an anonymized YouTube client in the browser): https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/channel/UCq79-lfj2w7oRXGRcOP2B7g
Haven't tried it for quite some time, but does it finally have a UI designed by and for human beings instead of Vogons?
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.
These kinds of conversions have been around for decades. They usually don't survive big version jumps.
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.
Lol, from the Logo history
Haha that's good one too. I thought I'm the only one going through the list. I wonder what they were thinking back then: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/raw/eb0591f97dca152ec827db083f910b6a9ea16369/data/images/gimp-splash.png
Fuck yeah!
Change the awful name.
To PIMP?
Fork it.
Fork deez
This was actually discussed at one of their recent meet-ups.
GNU IMP
Really? That's the best the fucking brain trust could come up with?
Here are some suggestions that chatgpt came up with. All of them are FAR better than that and dont even take much imagination.
Certainly! Here's the list:
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PixelCrafter
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PhotoFlare
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ArtisanEdit
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Imagino
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EditSphere
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PixiePro
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Visionary
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ChromaCraft
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PixelPioneer
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ImageAlchemy
I hope one of these sparks some inspiration!
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My question is: does it launch faster? I love GIMP for how powerful it is while still being free, but I hate how long it took to load. I was using less powerful alternatives on a regular basis just because I didn't want to wait for GIMP to open.
When did you try GIMP last time? For me, it opens up almost instantly (~1 second) on my modern PC with Linux. And I am still on version 2.10. In the past (few years ago) a major slowdown on start was because of too many fonts or a corrupted font cache. Nowadays GIMP loads fonts in a different way, and starts fast regardless of how many you have.
There might be another reason why the startup was slow for you. But usually it should not be, unless your CPU is old and if you do not use SSDs. My recommendation is to try it out again and then troubleshoot with the community to find out whats slowing it down.
