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GIMP 3.0 Enters String Freeze, Inching Closer To Release (www.phoronix.com)
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GIMP 3.0 has been more than one decade in the making as the port from GTK2 to GTK3, also transitioning away from Python 2 to Python 3 support, and a wealth of other improvements from the UI to lower down into enhancing this open-source Photoshop alternative.

The GIMP project announced on X/Twitter today that they have entered the string freeze for this much anticipated release.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Isn't this the version where they pinky promised there will be CMYK support?

<ducks, runs>

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

From https://developer.gimp.org/core/roadmap/ for GIMP 3.0:

Space invasion (work in progress):

Various color management improvements, CMYK support (not as core image format, but import/export and picking/choosing/viewing)…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

That's the one! Didn't bother finding the source myself, thanks for going the extra bit kind stranger!

Looking forward to eventually burying the old "sticking with Adobe because GIMP doesn't support CMYK" argument.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Does anyone know if non destructive editing will be possible with 3.0 or if its a feature for the next ten years?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@lemmysarius @halm

After doing a few Google searches, I found that non-destructive editing is not fully implemented in GIMP 3.0, but that it is something that some of the developers are hoping to work towards over the next few years. GIMP 3.0 appears to primarily focus on moving to GTK+3....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

...and new font handling, several layer features - including tools working on multiple layers, new and improved tools, wayland support, widows Ink support, new plugin architecture, dynamic guides, improved file handling (formats, bigger files, etc), I think some gesture stuff as well? The non destructive editing is implemented for some things, not others (e.g. if adding a shadow to text and changing the text, the shadow will change too). I probably forgot some stuff..