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Why the urgency? You're linking to a normal, patch release. Did GIMP devs say something? Are you a GIMP dev?
GIMP wants to release 3.2.6 and they're looking for stuff they need to do to improve from 3.2.5
how recently can i have installed it? like, yesterday? HOW DO I DRAW A CIRCLE
GIMP is meant more for retouching photos, not drawing shapes. If you mostly want to draw shapes from scratch, you probably want something like Krita or Inkscape instead.
But if you really must draw a circle in GIMP, you make a circular selection and then fill it in with the bucket fill tool.
GIMP is meant more for retouching photos, not drawing shapes.
Then why is there a brush tool which has stars and sparkles? Even the screenshot software Spectacle and Flameshot can draw circles effortlessly. Something this trivial is downright silly not to have as a feature. Every year I have a moment where I decide "okay, I'm gonna do this in GIMP", but then get so pissed off because something that should take less than five seconds takes ten minutes and tutorial, whereafter I go back to Photopea.
Edit: I just discovered Pixelitor which now obviates my need for Photopea/GIMP. My review on AlternativeTo:
“Impressive. Basically has every basic functionality what I looked for in GIMP, straightforward to boot, but which isn't in GIMP or too inconveniently so. Installing Pixelitor on every machine from now on.”
GIMP and Adobe Photoshop are image editing programs. If you want to create your own vector images from scratch you use Inkscape or Adobe Illustrator
Circles ≠ Vectors. Sometimes I want to edit images by drawing circles around things. I'm actually serious, e.g., indicating locations where there is a leak and such. Freehand circles look ridiculous and unprofessional without a drawing tablet.
Friend, even GIMP dev themselves is currently adding shape tool.
GIMP official site listed 'Graphic Design Elements' as supported workflow, means shape tools is absolutely necessary.
Use ellipse select tool with a fixed aspect ratio of 1:1. Then Select -> Border and choose a width. Then fill it with a color.
Like yeah, it is 3 steps instead of having a dedicated "Shapes" tool with a bunch of options that would do the same. But GIMP is kind of built around selections, you do need to learn to use them if you ever want to use GIMP effectively. It's about as important as understanding layers.
Is there an OG post to reference here?
EDIT: Nice, big improvement on UI responsiveness with large font libraries. Still some room for improvement, but it was almost unusable before.
Who in the comments is an Adobe employee?
This isn't Reddit.
Hello, this is Tim Adobe. Don't worry, we are working hard to make sure we remain the best. There's currently a team trying to figure out wtf a "gnu" is while another team figures out the maximum price increase our customer base will accept to give us a good budget to work with (previous profits were used on boats for executive team and some pizzas from the cheapest place my executive assistant could find with free delivery). Is Mr GIMP interested in selling?
bends over
Test me, baby
Ive been a gimper since university.
Where is this quoting from?
I think they are quoting themselves. I'm fairly sure they've posted this exact thing before, for other versions of GIMP
I think they are quoting themselves
Linux releases are done via Flatpak, both mainline and development. I don't think Gimp itself would be linking to a snap package.
I've been daily driving gimp for over a decade now.
But these "revolutionary update" headlines are tiring. I've been listening that since 2.0, each minor patch is a "revolutionary gimp update". You go excited to see what they added and most of the time is nothing that important.
Non destructive editing was probably the only "revolutionary" thing that was done in these last 10 years. And that's ok, the development pace is what it is.
I am going to get slammed here ... but GIMP is just way too complex to use. Maybe the new UI will be better, but the old UI is not just clunky or slightly bad ... it is UNUSABLE by normal people.
Draw a circle in GIMP. Draw a square. Yea ... how long did that take to figure out?
Sit anybody in front of Photoshop for the first time and it will be the same.
The UI of modern Photoshop is now insanely bloated.
It'll take them as long just to boot the program, and every time they change tools they'll have to wait for it to catch up
New Ui announced, testers needed. What do you do? Complain about the old UI. Smart.
You want MS Paint.
God no.
Tux paint.
it is UNUSABLE by normal people.
I guess I am not a normal person then. I have been using GIMP happily for more than 20 years now. FWIW, I rarely need to draw circles.
Yeah it's literally not for you. Its like opening up cad (engineering tool) and complaining that there's a learning curve. My good friend is a graphic designer. I tried to get them to use gimp when they couldn't pay for photoshop anymore but it sounded like they just wanted to rip their hair out because of how behind photoshop it is. Gimp needs the basic features that are expected from photoshop for people to be willing to transition. You would be better off trying a graphic design bootcamp.
I will try to convince them to test it out but they just got access to photoshop again so it's unlikely they'll want to touch gimp anytime soon😮💨
Change the name. 😄 Edit: Imp is right there. If you miss 3 syllables of GNU Imp, try Photobash. Make it obvious.
App is great, name is terrible but the devs like it and don't want to entertain the idea of renaming.
I've been using GIMP for years and have become use to it. However, the interface still needs to be redesigned.
Wellllll that's exactly what they're looking for testers for right now
What do you think this announcement want you to test?
If they could make it as dummy proof as Macromedia Fireworks from the 2000s, they would make transitioning creative work in Linux a bit easier. And this is coming from a Linux user since 2008.