cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/26156649
The slow and steady climb to 3.0 culminates in the most modernized version of GIMP yet.
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
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.
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.
They gimp’d along for 20 years but finally arrived. [badum tiss]
Still faster than wayland standardization lol
Pity about the cringey name.
It’s an acronym: GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).
yeah but it apparently has some disgusting meaning that I always forget as a non-native english user
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.
Seems more like a backronym to me, they could’ve picked something better.
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.
Free, open-source Photoshop alternative
Groan
Gimp Is Maybe Photoshop
No GIMP.
Pronounced “Jimp”
