We all have so many plugins for the present GIMP. I have decided to just start from scratch with 3.0. It would be nice to have a video for that. Don't know if some present add-ons will be included with 3.0 and I probably don't use some that I have already added. Anyway, looking forward to 3.0 and all of your accompanied videos.
If they wanna do their thing and can't even give a date then people will do their thing and won't give them money which will demotivate from further developing with proper roadmap and encourage them to further do their thing. They are making software for other people to use and if other people are depending on something they are making, they can't just do whatever they want.
Do you want to see FOSS adoption go mainstream? Then the devs need to be reasonably responsive. I've been waiting for decades for Gimp to steal the mantle from PS. Not with 3d or animation BS that PS wasted its time with. But core functionality. Still waiting. But even Krita is far more responsive. And the result, they have far more users.HAPPY users.
@@rano12321 (and @Davies) Please remember that you're being given a /gift/. For anyone too impatient, well, the source code is out there. DIY or pay someone to fix it. Would you feel comfortable with such a behaviour to someone you knew? I hope not.
@@joanarlingthe only way to get quality free and open source software is to expect high standards from it. Doesn't matter that it is free, it must have quality to be a contender. But I agree that we shouldn't expect timelines to follow whatever the users want.
I'm a Pop_OS user, and I'm quite happy with System76's philosophy: "It'll be ready when it's ready" and I apply this to any software I use whether I've paid for it or not. When it comes to editing and creating anything, I want and need the software to not have bugs that show up after several hours of work. I'd understand people's complaints and frustrations if the GIMP team removed features and or support for X or Y and announced bringing them back for GIMP 3, but right now we're all just waiting for new things we never had in previous versions, and it'll still be relegated to being a "poor man's AGreedo Photoshop" regardless of what GIMP 3 can do. Trust me, I'm frustrated waiting, too, but I don't want to eat a half cooked meal.
Jehan recently added the following message to the top of the Tentative Release Schedule: "⚠ Any dates given below are purely indicative, helping developers to organize with some time frames; yet everybody is mostly volunteers and 👉we release when it's ready👈. Anyone taking such dates for a promise or relaying these as some official release date planning, or anything of the sort, is fooling themselves and others. Please don't do this, don't read more in the dates than what they are for (organizational)."
OMG!!!! This is better than an Eid gift!!!!! The gimp team are some of the best people ever, the new gimp is so good even the scrolling, zooming is better!!!!!
if we get 3.0 this year, i am happy. we waited a long time and i want it to be as solid & stable as possible for a new major release. isn't v2.99 for people who want to use early builds? isn't 2.99 supposed to be the current state of v3? or am i missing something? edit: i see, last v2.99 is from february, so not as recent as i thought.
Yes, there are unstable development release versions. I just hope GIMP can get 3.0 to a point where it's stable but with a few bugs, and then releases it, rather than trying for absolute no bugs. Bugs are inevitable.
@@DaviesMediaDesign Agreed. But like with all else in life, it's a balance. Perfection isn't needed. Lord knows PS has been buggier since they moved to CC from CS, despite CC promising to be better, it was worse. If 3.0 comes out at a "decent" beta level, a bit buggy and a bit rough, that would be fine. Too buggy, especially after people waiting so many years, many will just throw up their hands and say it's over. Let's not forget that GIMP actually has one of the same problems that PS does now: There are other options today.
@@DaviesMediaDesign Thing is they don't have the APIs set in stone yet. THAT is a blocker for release. No matter how many bugs they have, they shouldn't release until all the APIs are set in stone. Otherwise it will be a MASSIVE headache to support later.
Releasing when it's ready rarely works to have a project progress at any reasonable speed. GIMP is a perfect example. It will always release later than if a date is set. Setting milestones and dates is effective by created targets to focus on.
But they did not set an official release date. Why are you guys are talking about it as if there were an announcement. What the guy in the video shows is the developers' collaboration platform to better organize work among themselves. This is not an announcement page. The information there is mainly for the developers' overview and not as a press release for journalists, RU-vidrs and users.
Hi Davies! I haven't used Gimp in a bit, and it seems that the Resynthisizer is no longer available. Has the link changed? Or can you give me some tips on how to remove images from a background with out having to use my clone & heal? Thank you!!
I'm on win 10, but my mouse disappear as I bring pen (in brush mode) near the surface of my graphics tablet. But why not yours? Not a big issue, just curious.
This is the problem I have with gimp devs, Ik it's a free software and everything but so does blender, krita, inkscape etc. If they don't change their approach to development and management like blender, it's hard to see a bright future for gimp. If they can't even give a proper release date, then how come people will give them money.
Windows ink is the main reason I went back to Linux, it's a pain ita for anything tablet related, Blender, Gimp, Krita. It was possible to disable on win 10, but win 11 it's a no, plus it's a bloated ad nightmare. God bless the FOSS community.
