GIMP 3.0.6 Released
GIMP 3.0.6 Released
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I love GIMP I just wish I was better at using it
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Going to download it now - and I really like using it! :-)
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I think that as a photo editor, GIMP is the best option for open source. But as a print designer the lack of being able to work in CMYK and 1 bit images is a big problem.
Fortunately Krita does the CMYK thing extremely well, but it also lacks the ability to handle 1 bit images.
Wondering if anyone out there has discovered a lesser known open source app that works with 1 bit images well? Maybe something made for old school pixel art?
It seems strange to me, since even a more modern format like png supports 1 bit.
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CMYK support is getting there but very slowly.
You can import, export, and proof in CMYK today and you can have a CMYK color profile. GIMP 3.1.2 added total ink coverage for CMYK so 3.2 will have that. However, everything is still handled as sRGB internally.
With GIMP 3, all the required plumbing is there to handle CYMK natively. If I had to guess, I would expect it around GIMP 3.4. So, probably 5 years or more from now.
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Maybe for 1 bit images on GIMP you could try setting the image mode to indexed and then generate a palette with just two colors. GIMP can also apply dithering if you want
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Thank you!! That is exactly what I was looking for.
That is a big help. I was stuck on the idea that that option wasn't available when making a new doc and didn't think to look under the change mode menu.
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Thanks, but I don't think that patch level updates are news worthy
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Posts in linux@lemmy.ml are on average about 4 or 5 hours apart. I think we can squeeze these kinds of posts in amidst the hustle and bustle in here.
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More useful than that comment for sure.
There was lots of useful stuff in this release. It is not like it just fixed a couple of bugs. More than enough new functionality to be newsworthy and enough for me to go get the new release for Mac (which does not auto-update).
It is also great to track the incremental progress towards things like full CMYK support.
You may also misunderstand how GIMP releases work. Things will probably move faster now that version 3 is out but there will be LOTS of progress in the 3.0 releases before they release 3.2. If you wait for 3.2, you will be waiting a while and miss many useful features. The 3.1.x series is a dev branch for more invasive changes. A lot of the nee functionality will appear in 3.0.x.
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But is there circle tool?
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Not yet, but it is on the roadmap!
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Oh my, the future is soon!
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To be fair... that is more of a MS Paint kind of tool. I've been using Photoshop professionally for over 3 decades and I don't think I have ever used it. It took me a bit just to find it just now. Don't think I've ever used the rectangle tool either. A vector editing program like inkscape/illustrator or scribus/indesign are better tools for that kind of thing.
With that said. GIMP does have an ellipse selection tool, and that is something that I use often enough. And if you really wanted to draw a circle in a pixel pusher program you could just use that tool, invert it and delete on a separate layer.
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Why would you need a circle tool? Is your monitor round?
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After using so many different tools, on all platforms, with great or shitty UI, I have seen it all — I still hate GIMP.
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I don't think anyone should hate gimp, even if they dislike using it. When a shitty subscription based service is the only game in town, you've gotta root for the free and open source underdog.
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Reserve your hate for Photoshop, the monthly subscription that is so overpriced they force $300-400 cancellation fees to keep them addicted. They are the only product in this space that deserves hate.
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The UI got an overhaul with 3.0 it's prettier now, it's a bit of a learning curve but its worth it, even if just for the smug satisfaction
You can always reprogram keyboard shortcuts
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GIMP 3 is the bees knees 💪
There are some great plugins coming out for it now as well. I highly recommend checking out Batcher, which you can use not only to batch convert files but also to apply sets of adjustments including from G'MIC. Really powerful and useful tool with granular control.
There's also a really good frequency separation plugin and of course Resynthesizer.
Great times to be a GIMP user.