• Eugenia@lemmy.ml
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    19 hours ago

    Can’t wait, it’s becoming really usable (I always needed adjustment layers, and it now mostly has them). I wish they offered an appimage though, I’m not big on flatpaks due to size.

    • Leaflet@lemmy.worldOP
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      19 hours ago

      There’s third party Appimages. They also had a blog post discussing using Appimages for testing builds. If that gets done, I don’t see why they wouldn’t offer an official build.

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      25 minutes ago

      In the release blog they mentioned working on appimage. Right now they are only using it for testing purposes and it should be compatbible with Debian. But there is no “official” distribution as of now.

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      16 hours ago

      Appimage doesn’t do deduplication where possible like Flatpak does, where did you get the idea that Flatpak packages are bigger?

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    37 seconds ago

    So, real talk, be completely honest with me - how usable is GIMP these days? I’m not trying to pick a fight, I think it’s great that GIMP exists, but while I may not be a professional artist, I am a developer with an interest in graphical design and I would say that I am an advanced user of the Adobe Creative Suite tools - the main three that I use being Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.

    I would be willing to learn to use GIMP to replace Photoshop, and Inkscape to replace Illustrator, for example, but only if they’re actually good enough to put to real, productive use.

    I need my tools to get out of the way and let me work. If it crashes and loses my work EVER, then it is completely beyond consideration for me. If it’s good enough for light users but not really ready for professional use, then I don’t think I can really consider switching.

    I do not use any of the 3D or AI features of any of those tools, if that helps.

    I would really appreciate your opinions and advice. Please don’t be optimistic - I know it’s hard sometimes to be critical about open source software because of our ideological beliefs, but please try your best to be realistic.

    Oh, and if you’re going to just tell me to try it, please try to contain that impulse. It would be a huge undertaking for me to relearn basically everything about how I work with these tools, so if I went through all that just to find that I couldn’t actually make use of them because they’re not ready yet, it would be a huge waste of time and energy, both of which I have in quite short supply these days.

    Thank you so much for your time :)

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      22 hours ago

      lol … this will be one for the memory books

      American loses their minds … for the 100th time … on the same day as GIMP 3.0 was released

      MIGA

      Make Image-manipulation Great Again

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          22 hours ago

          lol … classic GIMP … this is becoming the best part of a terrible day

          GIMP 3.0 has kinda sorta maybe been released but they’re still working on it

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            12 hours ago

            Not necessarily. An insurrection might overthrow the maintainers before they can push the release