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GIMP 3.2 released
- Jabrov 7mo agoThe lack of GenAI integration is actually refreshing
- nirv 7mo agoDo you suggest using manual brushes instead of content-aware fill, or am I supposed to not want to retouch the images in the way that GenAI makes so quickly and easily? My argument is that applications probably should provide useful tools for solving practical problems, regardless of their implementation details.
- cyberjunkie 7mo agoThere are other applications with that implemented, with GenAI too.
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- mikae1 7mo agoContent-aware fill has been in PS since 2010 I believe, long before the genAI craze.
- charcircuit 7mo agoPhotoshops recent AI rotate tool looks useful compared to these features GIMP is adding.
- tejohnso 7mo agoLove GIMP. Always capable of doing anything I need done with raster images or even PDFs. Lately I've been opening PDFs and lightening the pages so that they can be printed without wasting a bunch of toner on backgrounds that are meant to be white but were scanned in as a light grey.
- tartoran 7mo agoI assume you don’t do this manually and you’re doing some kind of scripting, can you describe your process?
- tejohnso 7mo agoSorry, I don't have to do it in sufficient quantity of frequency to encourage scripting. And while doing it manually, I notice that the required tweaking of levels changes depending on the content of the page and how poor the scan is. I'm not sure an automated solution would provide satisfactory results consistently.
- nickjj 7mo agoBeing able to scale an image without losing quality is going to be handy. I always found it odd that scaling down an image now and then scaling it back to its original size 2 seconds later with the same tool resulted in a loss of quality and having to delete the layer, then re-import the image to get the original quality back. This plugin https://github.com/LinuxBeaver/Gimp_Layer_Effects_Text_Styler_Plugin_GEGL_Effects/ https://github.com/LinuxBeaver/Gimp_Layer_Effects_Text_Style... also makes adding text effects with GIMP pretty good. This is unrelated to 3.2 but turned out to be a necessity for me.
- vunderba 7mo agoNice - all actions performed on a layer should retain a hidden "raw original" so we get non-destructive transforms.
- cmyk_student 7mo agoIt's because each transform was "destructive" (like filters use to be by default). What link & vector layers do instead is store a transform matrix, so each transform just updates the matrix instead of actually re-rasterizing the layer each time. We were hoping to expand that feature to all layer types for 3.2, but we ran out of time to properly test it for release. It'll like be finished for the next minor release.
- __mharrison__ 7mo agoIt sounds like you are a gimp developer. Curious about the use of AI to work on it. Do the gimp devs use AI to write code?
- locusofself 7mo agoI see you are getting downvoted but I don't blame you for this question. I've been curious about what developers of established products are doing with LLM assisted coding myself.
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- hnlmorg 7mo agoI use Gimp pretty sporadically but the latest UI refresh (I’m guessing introduced in 3.0?) completely baffles me. It might just be that it’s better tailored for graphic designers, which I’m clearly not. But now I can’t even figure out how to draw a square on screen. Let along anything clever.
- masfuerte 7mo agoSelect a rectangle. Stroke or fill the selection. I agree it's a bit counter-intuitive, but afaik it's always worked like that.
- hnlmorg 7mo agoI don’t see that option. Maybe the issue is my installation has broken in some odd way. I’ll try completely removing it and all preferences, then reinstalling.
- masfuerte 7mo agoType "R" to enter rectangle select mode. Click and drag on the image to select. "Stroke Selection" and various fills are on the Edit menu.
- dingdingdang 7mo agoIt always had worked like that and it has always been a 100% nonintuitive and peculiar way to deal with this operation
- cmyk_student 7mo agoHi! What was the last version of GIMP that you used before 3.0? We get an equal amount of "GIMP's UI never changes!" and "You changed too much of the UI in the latest version", so it's difficult sometimes to figure out the specific issues.
- hnlmorg 7mo agoI’ve been using it for at least a decade, likely longer. Albeit I might only use it, at most, for a few hours every few months. So I’m definitely not a seasoned expert despite that length of time. But I always considered myself reasonably competent. I usually indifferent about UI changes, I’m not someone who tends to complain either for nor against. So this isn’t a complaint about Gimp changing thing (if that’s what happened). The issue here is really more about how I now cannot figure out the simple things any more. And that might just be on me rather than Gimp.
- Retr0id 7mo agoDoes anyone else find non-destructive editing kinda unintuitive? I get the practical benefits of it, but it feels shoehorned in to an interface for doing destructive edits. Chained edits frequently interact in ways that confuse/surprise me. I think I'd rather do non-destructive edits via some sort of node-editor interface. (And to be honest most of the things I use GIMP for don't need non-destructive editing in the first place)
- stringfood 7mo ago"When I was a kid, when we shrunk a 200x200 image down to 100x100 we lost information forever, and we liked it that way. It was a simple time. A predictable time."
- Retr0id 7mo agoThat is generally my intention when downscaling an image.
- Tadpole9181 7mo agoUntil you're a professional designer and they ask you to "scale up this part" or something. Then you realize that your actual intention is having the original layer currently rendered at that size and did not actually intend to permanently modify the original so you can't go back. Once you export it is, of course, actually downscaled. Same idea behind masks and modifiers and the like. Most modern creation tools try to give ample opportunity for non-destructive modification to simpler, immutable primitive layers.
- cmyk_student 7mo agoThe current non-destructive UI is a bit of a compromise - we can't really mix layers with NDE filters in the layer dock until GTK4 (from what I understand), so the pop-up menu is what we had to work with. You can check "Merge filter" at the bottom of the filter dialogue though, and it will automatically merge the filter like in 2.10 (and the setting is remembered going forward)
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- dvh 7mo agoCan I finally Ctrl+s jpeg image? And no, export is not enough because first time it will ask for for path and compression level which it already knows. I just want to Ctrl+s and be done.
- F3nd0 7mo agoIt seems like you can assign this action to Ctrl + S, yes. See here: Edit → Keyboard Shortcuts → file → Overwrite […] I think this would be awful default behaviour, but I guess it’s nice to have the option if you really want it, and I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to find after reading your comment.
- necovek 7mo agoIt used to be even simpler, though I am sure it caused all sorts of problems: for any Gtk+ program, if you hovered over a menu and pressed a new key combination, it would reassign the shortcut for that menu to what you just pressed. You still had to turn it on, and it was an amazing feature, but you'd occasionally reassign something you did not want to :)
- pxoe 7mo agoFile - Overwrite file, that's been there for a while. It can be turned into a hotkey, it's unmapped by default, and I don't think that'd change nor should it change, given how user hostile that'd be, the long history of how it works in editors like that, and with how they lean towards non-destructiveness of it all. Also, that just sounds like perhaps a simpler editor would be a better fit, like Paint.
- orev 7mo agoAlmost all programs treat the “Save” operation as something used with the native format, in this case XCF files. These preserve things like layers, etc. JPG and other formats are exports because after you close the file you can’t get all that stuff back when you reopen it.
- purerandomness 7mo ago
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- Findecanor 7mo agoUse the ellipse selection tool and hold Shift to make it a circle. Hold Ctrl to pull from origo. Then use Stroke Selection or Fill Selection. Although, I miss being able to create a selection from a point on the ellipse/circle instead of just origin or bounding box corner. I would also like to stroke on the inside or outside of the selection instead of just its middle. I have often had to first fill the circle and then select again from the same origin point to cut out the inside.
- necovek 7mo agoInstead of trying to get at the same origin point, I usually just keep the selection active and then go to "Selection" menu and choose either "Shrink" or "Expand" options (or similar language: I use a localized version).
- cmyk_student 7mo agoThere's always the GFig filter, which has existed in GIMP for a long time. :) GIMP 3.2 actually adds vector layers, which are the basis for a shape tool (it was my "big project" for this release). We have a GSoC project idea for doing the last bit of work to make a dedicated shape tool: https://developer.gimp.org/core/internship/ideas/#implement-a-shape-tool https://developer.gimp.org/core/internship/ideas/#implement-...
- maxerickson 7mo agoYou can draw a representation of a circle with extremely primitive tools and it isn't possible to actually draw a circle. Your question as rendered is hard to answer.
- purerandomness 7mo agoIf you want to draw circles, you're probably looking for a vector drawing program, like Inkscape.
- helij 7mo agoOne of the first things I install on any new computer is Gimp. Thank you to all involved in the Gimp project.
- bombcar 7mo agoWell, I guess you just have to go wake him up now won't you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2pV02dTVE8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2pV02dTVE8
- quicon 7mo agoI find Gimp super useful and easy to learn. Using it to edit pdfs generated by NotebookLM is my new way of creating decks and presentations. Thanks for the great work.
- KellyCriterion 7mo agoAh, PDF editting works? Didnt know that! Thanks for telling!
- AbuAssar 7mo agoIs it possible to train a model on all gimp features that will eventually let us prompt whatever edits we want and it’ll automate gimp to achieve it?
- kernc 7mo agoLet everyone be reminded how joyful GIMP 2.10 menus used to look ... https://i.imgur.com/nVyMQBt.png https://i.imgur.com/nVyMQBt.png
- cmyk_student 7mo agoIf you mean the color icons, you can easily switch back to those in the Welcome Dialog that appears when you first open GIMP (look in the Personalize tab). It's the first thing I do when I install GIMP on a new machine. :)
- kernc 7mo agoDid you also manage to enable menu icons?
- cmyk_student 7mo agoThat was a feature in GTK2 (the GUI library we use) that was removed in GTK3. We could try to fight the library and reimplement it ourselves, but it'd take a developer dedicated to do it. I miss the menu icons too. :(
- 1718627440 7mo agoIt got deprecated only in 3.10 and you can compile against that and link it with the latest Gtk+ 3 library. I do this for my programs, because I don't like it when the widget toolkit ignores my OS settings.
- em-bee 7mo agooh wow, i never realized that this is there, in such a convenient location too. and you can't just change the icon style, but also disable the tool groups which was the most annoying change i found because it makes finding the right tool harder. (i'd love tool groups where the tools are grouped but not folded, or in a way where i can expand certain groups that i use often)
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