Free, open-source Photoshop alternative finally enters release candidate testing after 20 years — the transition from GIMP 2.x to GIMP 3.0 took two decades : opensource

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bring out the GIMP

[–] 0x0 3 points 1 week ago

Mr Wallace will make you regret that.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Why are 50% of the words in this article, covering 20 years of work, about making svgs of icons?

Terrible.

Haven't watched it yet, but DMD has a number of vids covering this, from plugin compatibility to features. Here's the RC1 vid: https://youtu.be/nLjlgHemaco

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seems like they're still playing catch-up. Photoshop is the only Adobe software I haven't cut out of my life. But it seems I will still be stuck with it for some time.

[–] FizzyOrange 7 points 1 week ago

Krita is quite far ahead of GIMP at this point. I'm not a pro Photoshop user but if you are and you're looking at alternatives, that's the place to look.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

They gimp'd along for 20 years but finally arrived. [badum tiss]

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Still faster than wayland standardization lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Frrr

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Free, open-source Photoshop alternative

Groan

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Gimp Is Maybe Photoshop

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

No GIMP.

Pronounced "Jimp"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the more unused whitespace a tool menu has, the better the UX guy! /s

[–] MajorHavoc 5 points 1 week ago

Heh. I understand that all the UX people to join the GnuIMP project have died of shock...

[+] [email protected] -13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Pity about the cringey name.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's an acronym: GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yeah but it apparently has some disgusting meaning that I always forget as a non-native english user

[–] andioop 1 points 1 day ago

As a native English speaker I didn't know "gimp" was more than a nonsense word and a lowercase version of this program until your comment. I admit I grew up sheltered and that probably influenced what slang terms, especially unkind ones, I learned about, but otherwise I don't consider myself particularly deficient in the vocabulary department.

Offensive word for someone with a physical disability or leg injury, a stupid person, or (not sure if it's okay in this context) a submissive person in BDSM activities, according to the New Oxford American Dictionary.

[–] MajorHavoc 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah.

The project name embodies several of the worst aspects of the FOSS community, and none of the best.

It's a shared embarrassment, by association, to many of us.

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