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nickjj 58 minutes ago [-]
Being 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.
It'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__ 42 minutes ago [-]
It 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 14 minutes ago [-]
I 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.
Alupis 8 minutes ago [-]
Like most of us, they're certainly using ai-assisted auto-complete and chat for thinking deep. I highly doubt they're vibe coding, which is how I interpret the parent's question and probably why they are being down voted.
vunderba 54 minutes ago [-]
Nice - all actions performed on a layer should retain a hidden "raw original" so we get non-destructive transforms.
Retr0id 40 minutes ago [-]
Does 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 8 minutes 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 7 minutes ago [-]
That is generally my intention when downscaling an image.
tejohnso 1 hours ago [-]
Love 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 48 minutes ago [-]
I assume you don’t do this manually and you’re doing some kind of scripting, can you describe your process?
dvh 33 minutes ago [-]
Can 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 26 minutes ago [-]
It 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 3 minutes ago [-]
It 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 26 minutes ago [-]
File - 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 24 minutes ago [-]
Almost 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.
Jabrov 1 hours ago [-]
The lack of GenAI integration is actually refreshing
nirv 38 minutes ago [-]
Do 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 21 minutes ago [-]
There are other applications with that implemented, with GenAI too.
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hnlmorg 50 minutes ago [-]
I 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 29 minutes ago [-]
Select a rectangle. Stroke or fill the selection.
I agree it's a bit counter-intuitive, but afaik it's always worked like that.
quicon 14 minutes ago [-]
I 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 10 minutes ago [-]
Ah, PDF editting works?
Didnt know that! Thanks for telling!
peter-m80 28 minutes ago [-]
Nice, is it now possible to draw a circle?
Findecanor 7 minutes ago [-]
Use 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.
To get around that limitation, I have often had to first fill the circle and then select from the same origin point and cut out the inside.
This plugin 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.
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.
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)
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.
I agree it's a bit counter-intuitive, but afaik it's always worked like that.
Didnt know that! Thanks for telling!
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. To get around that limitation, I have often had to first fill the circle and then select from the same origin point and cut out the inside.