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GIMP - Development Update: Closing In on the 3.0 Release Candidate (www.gimp.org)

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I’d really love if somebody would give GIMP the Blender treatment. It’s very good software but some of the UI paradigms are quite outdated. All their floating windows and dialogs do not work well on multiple screens.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

From the update:

One area we want to focus on after 3.0 is improving our UI/UX design process. We have set up a separate UX repository to report and discuss issues related to design. We are looking to build a team of designers to discuss and create design improvements to GIMP that also respect existing user’s workflows. Denis Rangelov has taken a strong interest in this area and has already done great work in identifying, categorizing, and moving design issues from the code repository to the dedicated design section. Some design improvements have already been implemented for 3.0, and we look forward to working with community designers to give people a better experience!

It'll take some time, but it seems like improvments may be coming.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

It's already been done

https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Ohhh great. Their UI always seemed old and crappy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago

That's pretty neat. I do hope they do some solid UI/UX research on it, and figure out their own way of smoothing things out without simply "making it like Photoshop" like the grouchy masses are clamoring for. :p

Blender had some odd ideas at first, but I really appreciate their unique approach that, IMHO, makes an Autodesk product feel heavy and kludgy by comparison.

[–] Blisterexe 17 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

https://graphite.rs looks like it might replace gimp at some point

[–] nasi_goreng 4 points 2 hours ago

Graphite.rs is node-based.

It's entirely different workflow.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

Looks like they'll be more in Krita's waters, if anything. And Krita already has a solid UI.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe? It looks like it’s tuned towards generative use cases. Sometimes you need to just edit a photo really quickly and setting up a bunch of nondestructive nodes seems like more of a hassle than help.

But hopefully I’m wrong! This is the first I’ve heard of the project.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Nose based software typically still has a sidebar ala Lightroom for quick things. Both Blender and Graphite use this approach. Nodes are for when you want to go further.