Automated background removal was also added recently.

  • @[email protected]
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    331 year ago

    I hope you mean the UX. I think attacking it’s functionality would be unfair. It does everything good and right … technically.

    If the UX is objectively bad or “just” subjectively might be hard to find out. I would assume if there are objective UX mistakes, some contributor might have been able to deal with that by now. But of course it doesn’t change anything if a majority doesn’t like it for subjectice reasons. It’s part of UX design to deal with subjective aspects.

      • fmstrat
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        131 year ago

        Or you know, being able to rearrange layers.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          Or color spasecs other than sRGB (8 bits/channel). I’ve a camera that takes 10 bits/channel photos, a monitor that displays 10 bits/channel, etc. But GIMP will just distort the colors because they hard-coded the color space! Can’t edit for print either, no CMYK. GIMP is an image editor for the noughties, not the 2020s.

          Then again, we’re talking about MS Paint here. If Paint fills your needs, GIMP will be fine.

          • fmstrat
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            41 year ago

            Not just 10bit. The Linux version still makes 8bit images more purple after saving.

          • @[email protected]
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            31 year ago

            If Paint fills your needs, GIMP will be fine.

            Disagree. Paint’s function is to be the Notepad of images, something not very powerful but quick and dead simple.

            GIMP is needlessly hard to use.

          • ferret
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            21 year ago

            Good news for you, if they ever get around to releasing gimp 3

      • @conno02
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        11 year ago

        as a doofus gimp user, what’s an adjustment layer?

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          Not a professional either, but I was also curious and learned:

          It’s a layer of which the properties/filters apply to all layers below. So you can basically try around and manipulate the visible image without having to combine the layers first.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      I’ve been waiting for years for “non-destructive edition” (AKA smart objects). It’s a fundamental feature that I use (almost?) always as a first step. IMHO a lof of professional work is not practical without it.

      They had it on the roadmap (see 2020 archive) for years marked as “No[t started]”. The current roadmap looks more promising with “link layers” marked as WIP and saying it could be available on GIMP 3.0.2.

    • @conno02
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      11 year ago

      ive been stuck with gimp and now ive been stockholm syndromed into liking it