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Gimp is working on its own version of “smart objects”
- dankerr 6y agoGreat to hear! Now if only it was easier to wrap text around a circle...
- Lammy 6y agoI promise this is a serious suggestion and not snark, but I respect projects that resist adding poor implementations of other applications' core functionality. Type rendering is hard! Let GIMP be an excellent RGB-pixel-pushing program, and maybe give a real page layout application a shot instead. The output will be worlds prettier than anything you'd be able to do in GIMP. Scribus is nice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoScribus is great for layout, I'd use Inkscape for text around a curve and then import it. I've always wished for a common canvas so one could attach a program to a canvas - eg in a new layer - and add parts, rather than passing files around.
- sneeuwpopsneeuw 6y agoGreat to hear! Now if only it was easier to understand what most of the buttons with strange icons do...
- numlock86 6y agoExpert software is not for everyone.
- asutekku 6y agoGimp is not expert software though. It’s an okay foss alternative to photoshop, but just because it has an awful UX does not suddenly make it ax expert software.
- 2038AD 6y agoI think "alternative to photoshop" pushes it into the expert category. Non-expert would be something like MS Paint. I don't consider Gimp to have radically worse UX either. I've got a couple of minor gripes but nothing major.
- DonHopkins 6y agoBy far, most experts use Photoshop.
- numlock86 6y agoMost experts use commercial software like Autocad 3ds max over Blender for example, too. But what is your point? It's still expert software.
- danielscrubs 6y agoGIMP - Free and you only pay with your time and sanity. Now if we could only come up with some word for people that exchange time for money...
- homarp 6y agoWould that help: https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/gimp-concepts-main-windows.html https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/gimp-concepts-main-windows.htm... ?
- 2038AD 6y agoHover your cursor over the icon and a tooltip will tell you
- rhn_mk1 6y agoUnless you're using a touch display.
- 2038AD 6y agoTapping the icon using a touch display also brings up the tooltip (I just checked)
- rhn_mk1 6y agoI agree that it's useful to have that, but sadly still not very discoverable. I know people who won't tap anything before they are shown what it does. I might fall into the same category, noticing how confused I was recently after running some software with no button labels for the first time.
- DonHopkins 6y agoGreat to hear! Now if only it was easier to be taken seriously when evangelizing a piece of software named "GIMP"...
- phoe-krk 6y agoThis is exactly why it has been forked under a less-passive-aggressive name, Glimpse[0]. If GIMP implements these, Glimpse eventualy will get them, too. [0] https://glimpse-editor.github.io/ https://glimpse-editor.github.io/
- Lammy 6y agoThat's cool, but they could really stand to spend some more time on the introductory screenshot to give unfamiliar users a better idea of just what Glimpse is and why they might want to download it. There just seems to be the one with the UI zoomed out so far as to be indistinguishable. It's such a wasted opportunity to showcase additional features, too, like adding a floating salad bowl to show that they were also capable of forking the "Layers" functionality.
- esperent 6y agoI don't think passive aggressive is the right description for the name... It's just plain bad. Who wants to think of related sexual fetishists when performing image manipulation? Glimpse is much better. Is there any chance the name will get officially changed?
- dgellow 6y agoNobody thinks of sexual fetishism when editing something with GIMP. Nobody thinks of the word “chrome” when using Chrome, or of a literal window when using Windows, or of a literal docker ship when using Docker.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoNope, but when someone asks me IRL, at work say, "you're into FOSS what are your most used graphics tools" then I'm not mentioning The GIMP (which I've used for, what, 15 years). Glimpse is a good name, though I never got why they couldn't just call it GNU Imp - Wilber might as well be an Imp.
- folli 6y agoOT: what's up with those "Great to hear! Now if only it was easier to..." comments? Some kind of meme I'm unfamiliar with?
- terramex 6y agoGIMP is very powerful image manipulation program with tons of features but is has reputation of being very user-unfriendly and arcane. I do not know if it was a meme, but surely is now.
- treeman79 6y agoI got a career out of endlessly recompiling X11 and Slackware so I run Gimp. Seriously it was many months of constantly tinkering Because I couldn’t afford Photoshop. I had no idea at the time how valuable to my career that was. I also never want to go through it again.
- arkitaip 6y agoAt least you learned your lesson back then. I just went through all of this for the nth time with Krita, having spent weeks being annoyed with its UI micro aggressions. Going back to Photoshop - again! - meant I could get things done.
- unixhero 6y ago+1 ! Although I am far away from coding, I know more about build toolchains and quality software packages. I also never want to do that again.
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- muro 6y agoMy favorite is "how to draw a circle in gimp" - every time I need to do that, I search on Google for that. Now if only it was easier to... Instead of adding more and more features, they should really get some UX experts involved, it's a horrible mess.
- heavenlyblue 6y agoSo how many developers are working on this feature?
- lebaux 6y agoGreat to hear! That is about it, I respect developers of free software and understand it is big enough undertaking even without constant snarky remarks.
- plun9 6y agoGIMP Is a Mediocre Photoshop
- Lammy 6y agoGIMP doesn’t need to bolt on tangentially-related-to-photo-editing functionality to sell me a new version upgrade once a year (or a subscription). It’s a totally fine equivalent to the Photoshop That Was.
- _Microft 6y agoI think they wanted to make fun of the name GIMP and hinted that it might be a recursive acronym: (G)IMP (I)s a (M)ediocre (P)hotoshop
- mFixman 6y agoI'm gonna go against the circlejerk and say that the GIMP is a great piece of software for image editing. Its biggest problem is how unfriendly it is to new users, specially when compared to Photoshop and the like. If you have a minimum of technical experience, you can probably answer all the "Great to Hear! But how do I ..." questions yourself by spending some time to RTFM.
- rurban 6y agoI would not call that smart objects, just "live links". Smart objects would be parametric blocks, where you can stack various transformations of any kind. As in Houdini, Blender or any parametric CAD programm.
- lwhalen 6y agoGlad to hear the team is making progress. Slightly OT, might anyone here know what is up with the super-slow release of 2.10.20 installer for OS X? It's been several weeks since the latest release, and there's only the 2.10.14 installer available. I've done some poking around in the bug-tracker, but wasn't able to find an Issue for whatever might be holding up the OS X installer.