GIMP 2.10.0 Released (opens in new tab)

Hooray! GIMP is probably one of the top 5 pieces of software I think of when I'm in an evangelistic mood about open source. There's just something so beautiful about providing such easy access to creative tools.

I'm no power user, but I've found the GIMP to be satisfactory for 90% of my image editing requirements, and since I've spent most of my adult life as a rather destitute student, it's been an invaluable resource.

Congrats to the GIMP team!

Download area (https://www.gimp.org/downloads/) lists both OSX and Windows builds as not available and in turn redirects Windows & OSX users to older builds pages, both of which are currently 404s. Be good to just go over these things in cursory sense before publicly announcing new release.

This is update is incredible, it looks like a massive jump into modern relevancy. Excited to try it this weekend.

One thing I might have to raise in the GIMP community is what's the deal with sliders on brush-like tools? Very cumbersome to use by default, and I don't know if there's any way to change their behavior. Anyone have thoughts here?

Gimp has served me well. It has a lot of features for programmers who need to edit the input to programs. It will output images to ppm, allows you to combine layers with bitwise operations, and it can even export to a .c file with a const array of image data. It is such a precision tool and I love it.

Good to them finally giving UX a serious thought, as well as using multicore and adding flatpak installation method. At least opensource affocinados stand some semblance of chance in PS/LR holywar.

Where are macOS builds?

Nothing against the GIMP here, but I gave up on the Gimp about 10 years ago now waiting for it to support color depths greater than 8. Gimp was a great program back in 1998-ish. But the lack of deep color depth support really hampered it.

Nice overview of some of the features is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zigo9gTzL8

It's on flathub for those using flatpak.

good news!

Wondering, why there is still no GaaS (GIMP as a Sevice) Scheme/REST/Cloud-Functional offer.