GIMP 3.0 Release Planned for 2025-03-09
Hi all! We are considering doing the finale release of GIMP 3.0.0 on March 9, Sunday. This feels like we may be in the finale sprint towards the arrival line! đ So for all translators in particular, this is the time to push last-minute updates!
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They actually got a GTK3 based release out before GTK3 went EOL. Congratulations!
Can they update ti GTK4 based before that goes EOL? :D
GTK3->GTK4 should be easier than GTK2->GTK3.
It's ironic that GTK actually used to stand for GIMP ToolKit.
They were the first ones to use Gtk ever.. and it's looking like they will be the last ones to migrate to the newer major versions :P
Yay! They've done some excellent work. It's an amazing piece of software. And has a rich history, too. Maybe this release is finally the kick I need to learn it better
May the gods of Open Source bless Gimp.
I remember years ago reading about how the GEGL backend would one day enable some "non-destructive editing" features; I just decided to figure out how that works and I see it was sort-of implemented a long time ago but in 3.0 the UI is much better: many things under the Filter menu now have a Merge filter checkbox in their dialog. When that box is unchecked, then applying the filter will make it a (non-destructive!) layer effect and an fx icon will appear for the layer (in the dockable layers dialog, which you can reach with ctrl-L if it isn't visible). You can apply any number of layer effects, and when you click the fx icon you can reorder them or modify their settings. Very cool!
Another tip (not new to 3.0): you can type / to open the Search actions window, which lets you quickly find various functionality without needing to dig through menus to figure out where something is :)
If you want to try a 3.0 release candidate before it is released, it's easy to install it from the flathub-beta repo as described here. (That page is embarrassingly out of date and says "The current development release of GIMP is 2.99.6 (2021-04-26)" but if you follow the instructions there you'll currently get version 3.0.0~rc3 which is the latest release candidate from earlier this month.)
That sounds really cool, thanks for letting us know!
Hasn't this been in the works for like 5 years
gimp 3 anticipation dates back almost over 12 years now. I remember an anecdote of somebody was writing a Linux book in 2012 and wanted to include gimp3 but couldn't wait for it
Does it have full CMYK support now by any chance?
Oops, they forgot. GIMP 3.0 now set for release in 2028!
You said âfullâ. So the short answer is no.
You can import and export to CMYK and handle CYMK in some tools but, internally, GIMP is still sRGB.
I think one of the devs wants to add full CMYK and Lab colour fairly soon after 3.0 but it is hard to say how fast dev will go. Getting to 3.0 has take forever but a lot of the plumbing is there now. There were big features only appearing in 2.99 for years. I do not think they will need to hold back like that again, so perhaps things will seem to go faster now.
The other big thing that is only âpartialâ is non-destructive editing.
See "space invasion" on the roadmap
I am always rooting for GIMP but man are they behind the big dog Adobe, as loathe as I am to say that.
Yeah, I wish for a "Blender" moment for GIMP. Big improvements to the UI/UX to bring more (non-tech) users and code modernization to bring in devs.
After a decade of watching the GIMP community and leadership refuse obvious UI changes insisting itâs just âdifferentâ as well insisting on a name we canât deal with in schools Iâm not convinced theyâre even serious anymore. My new hope is for the Graphite project to get where it wants to be.
Thereâs a reason gimp forums are full of first time artists posting ponyâs while every competitor open or not is trying new things. There is some new young devs adding amazing things to GIMP (finally), I hope they can steer this into better waters but Iâm beyond sceptical.
I'm out of the loop, how's gimp holding up vs krita? Are they functionally the same?
Many things are possible with both products. But Kritas focus is on drawing/paiting and animation, meanwhile GIMPs focus is photo edititing.
Just try them out. I really love both.
While Krita focusses on drawing, I found it basically just as good at photo editing as GIMP. So today I don't use GIMP at all and do everything in Krita.
Significantly better with real adjustment layers IMO. Gimp markets as a photo editor but almost all Linux photographers are using DarkTable at this point.
Bring it on!
Wait... Was it not released yet? RC1 came out probably more than a month ago
Then came RC2 and RC3.
Just because it entered RC phase doesn't mean it won't take long to release. It's not unlikely that a lot of bugs and problems could have been reported in the RC phase, specially for such a big changelog in a popular program that many people are likely to be interested to test during the RC phase.
To be honest, I expected it would take at least 4 months (specially given how it took them years to reach this far). I'm pleasantly surprised that it was this fast.