/gd/ — How's GIMP 3.0?

No problems so far, but it's not my main editor and I haven't really dug into the new features.

>>459976
I've been using 2 for a few years now.I have stockhom syndrome for it as I have a few others (like Kitra) but dealing with the 2 bumps and bruises for so long makes me want to stay with it. Maybe one day.

Is there a way to save selections yet, ideally as something tied to a layer?

GIMP will always be ass whether it's 3.0, or 9.0

>>459970 (OP)
STILL NO CMYK SUPPORT AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>459970 (OP)
I'm considering switching to it, since Affinity keeps freezing my entire system with HA enabled and isn't getting any fixes anytime soon and Adobloat is just too much of a mess to use.

>>460470
>wants to use gimp because adobe is a mess to use.
there is plenty of issues to be had with that business. but the blind hate by inexperienced idiots sometimes is indeed hilarious

>>460471
does gimp also bloat my PC with 20+ background tasks running at all time?

>>459970 (OP)
Might be a dumb question, but what is stopping GIMP from just copying Photoshop's layout, UI, features, etc. completely? Can't be related to copyright if it's free and open source, right?

>>460476
Yeah I used to think some features were out of reach because of Adobe patents or something but then Photopea came out and has a bunch of Ps features that Affinity/GIMP/Pixelmator still don't have despite being a web app with less than half the dev time.

>>460476
In terms of UI, nothing. There's even a patch made by the community called "PhotoGIMP" that completely remodels the Gimp UI to look like Photoshop, and some other things like shortcuts

I'm a newbie. I'm just trying to quickly edit images with a white background to a transparent one. I've done the free select tool and traced an image before (copy and paste to new image) but that takes way too much time. Fuzzy select is often perfect to select what I want to delete. I've tried following some tutorials with where they say to make an alpha channel and then select+delete but the image I export still has a white background. I got something to work by making that alpha channel, deleting the white, using a rectangular select and copy + pasting-as-new-image, but I imagine that there a way that is simple and doesn't require making a new image.

>>460567
>PhotoGIMP
I might give this a shot. I haven't looked into any patches or scripts or whatever that would help me out.

>>459970 (OP)
pretty bad
I'm trying to vertical flip a selection and it won't do it, only when i click layer in the tool options does it do it, but then it puts the flipped selection into a new floating layer, why? what does that mean?
why not just flip the selection which i can do in 2 seconds flat in Paint

>>462435
I take all that back but it took me 3-4 hours to get into it as a noob and with a simple task, now I want to do more

i downloaded in through microsoft store

did i dun goof

>>462437
same anon here, after 8 days, Gimp is awesome, 3.0, okay, could be a bit better sometimes in the interface but I don't use shortcuts yet, that could help. Also it crashes every once in a while so save your work often.

>>462506
same anon 14 days later, shit still good, i can restore old images now it's fun but takes time unless you've done a lot of it
Gimp and Inkscape as a combo is an great swiss army knife

>>460041
> cmyk
Don’t tell him you can convert to/from rgb to cmyk and “magical” pantone colors

>>460675
I'm sure this person has figured things out but for any other newbs that might come across this. I'm not sure what they were doing wrong but I'm wondering what version they were using. You haven't had to add an alpha channel for a while now. It happens automatically when you open an image. You can check the channels tab. Unless you've disabled this setting in Image Import & Export. So for them it should have been open image, select by color maybe, clear, deselect, export to png or whatever.

>>459970 (OP)
Will I still accidentally drag panels out of their sockets and search for "move to layer" forever?

>no more icons on drop-down menu options
This sucks, but having non-destructive effects and selecting multiple layers is wonderful

i lost my serial to photoshop and was forced to use gimp

never in my life any graphic tool pissed me so much, its creators should be burned at stake

>>463295
What upsets you so much about it?

it's something indeed

>>459970 (OP)
isn't gimp like crazy difficult to use? there's no button for anything, and if you want to do basic stuff you have to have the buttons memorized
I only use it once every few months, and I have to look it up every time

>GIMP 3.0 with the flatpakd soi cal arts new logo of Wilbur
>gtk3

cant wait for the eventual en[spoiler]GTK4[/spoiler]ification, and whatever horrendous oversimplified Wilbur...

>>459970 (OP)
shit, like every version before it and every version yet to come

>>463295
>its creators should be burned at stake
They made a FOSS alternative to Photoshop without a budget. It's Adobe that deserves the vitriol.

File: tole-alu.png (1.04 MB, 1600x1200)

Gimp can't do that, right ?

>>459970 (OP)
It gets the job done for free. That's all. I'm a retard; I use it sometimes when I need to, but with minor AI edits, I can do it without it