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Glad to hear they're planning to work on non destructive editing - that might even convince some photoshop users to make the switch. Then again, I really like g

Glad to hear they're planning to work on non destructive editing - that might even convince some photoshop users to make the switch. Then again, I really like gimp for the incredible variety of work it does well already, like editing animated gifs.

blt 10y ago
Count me as one Photoshop user who avoids GIMP because it lacks non-destructive editing. Photoshop had Adjustment Layers since 1996, and using them is a widely accepted best practice. It is hard to imagine a valid reason why GIMP developers have taken so long to implement them.
- gtaylor 10y ago
  It's an open source project with a million things to work on whenever the contributors can spare a few moments. Adobe has a full time paid staff to make progress on numerous fronts at any time.
- dagw 10y ago
  It is hard to imagine a valid reason why GIMP developers have taken so long to implement them. Time. It's not that they're unaware of the importance of non-destructive editing. But adding it to GIMP required a pretty complete overhaul of the underlying architecture, which ended up taking much more time than initially anticipated. Basically the developers had to choose between completely stopping the development of GIMP and focus all their time re-implementing and re-writing the underlying architecture, or to keep working on GIMP as it was, and to slowly changing the underlying architecture bit by bit as and when they found the time. They chose the latter option. Non-destructive editing has been in development, on and off, for about 15 years now.
  - chris_wot 10y ago
    That was a wise decision. The LibreOffice team have essentially been doing the same thing.
- jononor 10y ago
  That everyone working on it are unpaid volunteers is not a valid reason?
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stuaxo 10y ago
This has been in the works for a long time (via gegl), if funding the devs via patreon can only help here.

blt 10y ago

Count me as one Photoshop user who avoids GIMP because it lacks non-destructive editing. Photoshop had Adjustment Layers since 1996, and using them is a widely accepted best practice. It is hard to imagine a valid reason why GIMP developers have taken so long to implement them.

gtaylor 10y ago
It's an open source project with a million things to work on whenever the contributors can spare a few moments. Adobe has a full time paid staff to make progress on numerous fronts at any time.
dagw 10y ago
It is hard to imagine a valid reason why GIMP developers have taken so long to implement them. Time. It's not that they're unaware of the importance of non-destructive editing. But adding it to GIMP required a pretty complete overhaul of the underlying architecture, which ended up taking much more time than initially anticipated. Basically the developers had to choose between completely stopping the development of GIMP and focus all their time re-implementing and re-writing the underlying architecture, or to keep working on GIMP as it was, and to slowly changing the underlying architecture bit by bit as and when they found the time. They chose the latter option. Non-destructive editing has been in development, on and off, for about 15 years now.
- chris_wot 10y ago
  That was a wise decision. The LibreOffice team have essentially been doing the same thing.
jononor 10y ago
That everyone working on it are unpaid volunteers is not a valid reason?
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stuaxo 10y ago

This has been in the works for a long time (via gegl), if funding the devs via patreon can only help here.