GIMP 2.99.12 Released - "A Huge Milestone Towards GIMP 3.0"

[Malsabku]

What actual usability problems does gimp depending on gtk+2 causes you with image editing? It already emulates hidpi scaling. Any other improvements in gimp3 are not related to gtk3.
Not having legacy libraries on your system lowers the system maintenance burden and should have no effect on your artwork.

Because of missing fractional scaling support Gimp2 is practically useless for me, because it is completely blurry.

[timofonic]

Gimp may be impressive in some aspects, but it has an epicalky awful UX/GUI.

[finalzone]

Gimp may be impressive in some aspects, but it has an epicalky awful UX/GUI.

Honestly disagree. GIMP got its UI and the icon modernized, usable and easier to read. The UI is far more friendly than the mess that is Adobe Photoshop.

[dragon321]

I like how everybody is talking about GIMP slow development ignoring the fact that this version brought initial CMYK support. One of the most requested feature is finally starting to take shape.

[kiffmet]

Who would have thought that changing the toolkit API with every minor version would be such a hassle in moving GIMP to a more modern codebase For me, GTK is dead since 4.0 - GDK_DPI_SCALE is no more and fractional scaling is a sad, blurry joke - I literally can't use any software based on it with my 123DPI panel (requiring 1.28125x scaling) anymore.

[Quackdoc]

What actual usability problems does gimp depending on gtk+2 causes you with image editing? It already emulates hidpi scaling. Any other improvements in gimp3 are not related to gtk3.
Not having legacy libraries on your system lowers the system maintenance burden and should have no effect on your artwork.

scaling issues are bad. but also workflow matters. not having sensible shortcuts to tools I commonly use, or being a hassle to set up said shortcuts, has a direct effects on profits. time is money after all

[timofonic]

Honestly disagree. GIMP got its UI and the icon modernized, usable and easier to read. The UI is far more friendly than the mess that is Adobe Photoshop.

I don't consider Photoshop to be the best UI, on the contrary. But Adobe has a long user traction, they somehow can have an awful UI.

There are lots similar software with a lot better UIs, many used in film industry.

[ClosedSource]

Because of missing fractional scaling support Gimp2 is practically useless for me, because it is completely blurry.

Thank you. Can you please post a screenshot of the bluriness? It should show the toolbar, mainbar, and such.

Thanks again.

[Danielsan]

Let's agree to disagree!

I think it's Krita!

(even being proved that for some extra-pro rare *special* cases it may lack one or two needed features)

It's - in my opinion - a better image manipulator that GIMP...

But that's just my personal opinion...

Krita is great put it is a paint and illustrator tool, GIMP is a image manipulation editor, they don't do the exact same things even though they overlap in many areas.

[Danielsan]

If Gimp would had been received more love from users maybe it would get some features earlier, but better continuing to use FotoSchiop Pirate instead!

Is there any FREE, LIBRE & OPEN SOURCE software advanced and feature rich as nuch as GIMP to edit and manipulate images?

If not, then GIMP is THE BEST open source tool to perform such tasks!