Related to that, Jacob Boerema has implemented PSD Descriptor import support. Most of our current PSD support has been based on the the public Adobe specification. This document was last updated in 2019 however, and modern PSDs use a relatively undocumented text format called Descriptors to store many features.

The battle tested strategy of only providing old standards to others, like MS does.

I've recently tried using GIMP again and, as a past detractor, I've gotta say it's improved significantly.

I used to work in schools IT and I managed to get a lot of FOSS tools into regular use amongst both staff and students; Audacity, Libre Office, Firefox, even Debian in a few IT labs... but the one that never stuck was GIMP because no teacher is going to tell their class they'll be using GIMP today.

I know this is a tired point and will probably never be fixed, but that name causes more problems than anything else.

GIMP is shaping up to be (and actually already is IMO) the best editor out there for nondestructive work.

I've been using GIMP for over a decade. It's slowly starting to become one of the leading sources of frustration in my computing life. The more I learn about it the less it makes any sense.

Not trying to be negative here. Just saying that a modernization is much needed and I'm really excited for this.

I love GIMP and no amount of tedious naysaying will ever change my mind

Leaving this here for Photoshop converts

https://github.com/Diolinux/Photogimp

I use Affinity full time at the moment, but if they ever go paid, I’m running straight to GIMP.

The UI needs a global overhaul since the day one and still nobody talks about it

Very interesting, thanks for the update.

edit: I also love how the article credits every individual contributor for the new features they made, a very nice way to celebrate the group effort

Use Krita instead. It has a big tiddy anime waifu right on the splash screen.

I've always wanted to see gimp on the same level of blender.

no it isnt. we keep hearing this and no, they never have a massive upgrade. that project doesnt do massive. that's not how it's ever be run. its stable, predictable, sane, but ugly things we have all hated forever will never be massively revamped in a single update.

Krita for the win if you just need the drawing part. Left Gimp long time ago for Krita and never looked back.

We <3 GIMP

they better add a fucking draw circle tool istg

The page 404s

What is the upgrade?