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Top 5 Features Coming to GIMP 3.0 (youtu.be)
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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.

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[-] surfrock66@lemmy.world 117 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] halm@leminal.space 36 points 1 month ago

+1 for the GIMP3 excitement, and ×1,000,000 for the YouTube gripe.

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago

Depends on the context. We're talking about an image editor, so showing a demo of the features in video form is helpful.

[-] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Can we have both? A concise textual description and a video exemplifying the features?

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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
[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Nondestructive editing

This wasn't already the case??

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] data1701d@startrek.website 10 points 1 month ago

Insert vaguely relevant Xkcd:

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 5 points 1 month ago

But think of the illiterate people! /s

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago

Ok, but have they fixed the UI scaling in high-DPI displays?

[-] lambipapp@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] parpol@programming.dev 49 points 1 month ago

Being able to select multiple layers at the same time was a feature requested 11 years ago. Now it is finally here.

[-] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago

3.0 is gonna be so good 🦾

[-] furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 14 points 1 month ago

Ok, but have they fixed the UI scaling on high-DPI displays?

[-] sixdripb@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

yea

[-] penquin@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

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

[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 14 points 1 month ago

Davies Media Design is a fantastic channel. Additionally here are links from the developers:

[-] furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Awesome, was that his GIMP masterclass? I'm thinking of doing that one.

[-] Thann@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

The Fx pipelines are fucking sick! Finally I can depricate my meme-text script!

[-] drwho@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago

Are they going to unfuck the layer management UI?

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

What a wonderful world that would be. Fingers crossed.

[-] Azzk1kr@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

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).

[-] blibla@slrpnk.net -3 points 1 month ago

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

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