• PhobosAnomaly@feddit.ukEnglish
    56·
    13 days ago

    Satisfying. I’ve been scarred by that GIF loop of that truck perpetually approaching the post, and to see the impact is like pulling the screen protector off a new TV. Bliss.

    • Rusty 🦀 Femboy 🏳️‍🌈@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      38·
      13 days ago

      Pretty good. Many new features, one of them being non-destructive filtering which is the ability to apply a filter (say a Gaussian blur) and then re-edit the filter parameters or even remove it without having to undo.

      However, at least for me, some changes will take some time to adjust to such as “OK” and “Reset” buttons of dialogue boxes now being displayed at the top rather than the bottom.

      Also years work of changes without the wider public testing them means that there are a few bugs/annoyances, one of them being the checkerboard pattern for transparency being replaced with a solid colour (equal to the background colour) when you zoom in too much.

      • fartsparkles@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        13 days ago

        Yeah I really wish they’d done more frequent releases than this one huge update after years. Still, it’s fantastic to finally have non-destructive editing - a huge missing feature.

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          16·
          13 days ago

          The trouble was, they were ripping out and replacing the core of the whole program in order to accomplish that non-destructive editing. It was the kind of thing that wasn’t usable at all until it was complete.

      • xylene@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        14·
        13 days ago

        “OK” and “Reset” buttons of dialogue boxes now being displayed at the top rather than the bottom

        I am so unbelievably fed up with Ui changes for no reason.

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10·
          13 days ago

          GIMP is the last application I would criticize for changing its UI, but putting the dialogue buttons at the top seems like a weird choice even for it.

      • Crikeste@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        13 days ago

        That (nondestructive filtering) is huge. One of the most frustrating things about blender for me was the ‘commitments’ you had to make. God, that’s fuckin’ awesome. I’ll have to check it out later, sounds like a jump forward.

  • Lojcs@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    13 days ago

    I feel deja vu… Didn’t gimp 3 also release like months ago?

  • RecallMadness@lemmy.nzEnglish
    5·
    12 days ago

    Single window mode was the last major milestone (to me at least) for GIMP. It made such a huge difference to usability, to the point that GIMP became a viable photoshop alternative.

    I thought it was a 2.0 (released 2004) feature, but turns out it was a 2.8 (2012) feature. (2.0 was the GTK2 switch)

    Either way, I remember both releases, and now I feel old.

    GIMP, Inkscape. Keep on trucking. It’s been 20+ years and every one has shown improvements over the last.

    • uniquethrowagay@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      13 days ago

      Krita is primarily for painting/creating art and GIMP is about image manipulation, right? I’m not sure if they’re aiming for the same thing.

      • Kyoko (Drakon)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        12 days ago

        Photoshop is also about image manipulation but it was like the number one for digital art to many artist before that place was took by Clip Studio. Also before a lot of the even more shady practices from these days

    • WillStealYourUsername@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMEnglish
      3·
      13 days ago

      I’m very used to using it now, but I remember being very confused and frustrated to start with. Gimp is all about layers and selections which was rather new to men when I got into it, so rather than using a circle drawing tool you instead select a circle and then fill it and stuff like that

    • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      13 days ago

      The UI/UX is very similar, they just added some non destructive image modifiers (similar to Blender), better text editing, and a bunch of under the hood stuff that should help in the future.