GIMP 3.0 Release Planned for 2025-03-09
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Does it have full CMYK support now by any chance?
Oops, they forgot. GIMP 3.0 now set for release in 2028!
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Yay! They've done some excellent work. It's an amazing piece of software. And has a rich history, too. Maybe this release is finally the kick I need to learn it better
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I am always rooting for GIMP but man are they behind the big dog Adobe, as loathe as I am to say that.
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Does it have full CMYK support now by any chance?
See "space invasion" on the roadmap
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Bring it on!
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It's been about to release in two weeks for a lot of two weeks.
And then what are the odds that it's still a decade behind photoshop?
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Wait... Was it not released yet? RC1 came out probably more than a month ago
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Hasn't this been in the works for like 5 years
gimp 3 anticipation dates back almost over 12 years now. I remember an anecdote of somebody was writing a Linux book in 2012 and wanted to include gimp3 but couldn't wait for it
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It's been about to release in two weeks for a lot of two weeks.
Ah, so it's the software equivalent of fusion power development.
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I'm out of the loop, how's gimp holding up vs krita? Are they functionally the same?
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Wait... Was it not released yet? RC1 came out probably more than a month ago
Then came RC2 and RC3.
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I'm out of the loop, how's gimp holding up vs krita? Are they functionally the same?
Many things are possible with both products. But Kritas focus is on drawing/paiting and animation, meanwhile GIMPs focus is photo edititing.
Just try them out. I really love both.
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Does it have full CMYK support now by any chance?
You said “full”. So the short answer is no.
You can import and export to CMYK and handle CYMK in some tools but, internally, GIMP is still sRGB.
I think one of the devs wants to add full CMYK and Lab colour fairly soon after 3.0 but it is hard to say how fast dev will go. Getting to 3.0 has take forever but a lot of the plumbing is there now. There were big features only appearing in 2.99 for years. I do not think they will need to hold back like that again, so perhaps things will seem to go faster now.
The other big thing that is only “partial” is non-destructive editing.
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They actually got a GTK3 based release out before GTK3 went EOL. Congratulations!
Can they update ti GTK4 based before that goes EOL?
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I'm out of the loop, how's gimp holding up vs krita? Are they functionally the same?
While Krita focusses on drawing, I found it basically just as good at photo editing as GIMP. So today I don't use GIMP at all and do everything in Krita.
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I am always rooting for GIMP but man are they behind the big dog Adobe, as loathe as I am to say that.
Yeah, I wish for a "Blender" moment for GIMP. Big improvements to the UI/UX to bring more (non-tech) users and code modernization to bring in devs.
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They actually got a GTK3 based release out before GTK3 went EOL. Congratulations!
Can they update ti GTK4 based before that goes EOL?
GTK3->GTK4 should be easier than GTK2->GTK3.
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I remember years ago reading about how the GEGL backend would one day enable some "non-destructive editing" features; I just decided to figure out how that works and I see it has actually been sort-of implemented for a long time now but in 3.0 the UI is much better: many things under the Filter menu now have a Merge filter checkbox in their dialog. When that box is unchecked, then applying the filter will make it a (non-destructive!) layer effect and an fx icon will appear for the layer (in the dockable layers dialog, which you can reach with ctrl-L if it isn't visible). You can apply any number of layer effects, and when you click the fx icon you can reorder and modify the settings of each. Very cool!
Another tip (not new to 3.0): you can type
/to open the Search actions window, which lets you quickly find various functionality without needing to dig through menus to figure out where something is
