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GIMP is gearing up for a massive upgrade (www.gimp.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Vosh@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[–] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

"It doesn't necessarily need to be that going forward"

This part does not make any sense. Making GIMP to be able to support any image format is a good thing. Especially for future file preservation.

If it was merely industry standard, if a software already good, people will just use the default format. It already happen with various industries, like comic making in Asia using .CLIP (Clip Studio Paint) instead of .PSD

[–] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Especially for future file preservation.

Case in point, the best office suite for both the old .doc file format and the previous (from 2013 and before) .docx file format is LibreOffice.

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's nice to have. For both GIMP and the industry's sake, priorities should be:

good UX
feature-wise competitiveness
in any (sensible) format

GIMP is an alternative to Photoshop. It isn't a psd reader.

Being the format jack of all trades yet master of none isn't too great of an idea. It'll just exacerbate GIMP's main current problem: an ancient UI Photoshop enthusiasts dread. A lot might consider switching if the bad GIMP UX was better than the also-bad Photoshop UX.

If I had to say what my main design gripe with gimp is, that'd be modularity. Seperate the ui (skins) from the tools, effects and rendering (formats). The UI is especially egregious in its hard-codedness while effects are pretty well-supported.

A few more apis would go a long way. Hell, even the closed Photoshop has open(ish) apis, since even Adobe know the value of an ecosystem and not just their internal r&d department!