Top 5 Features Coming to GIMP 3.0

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

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[@anothercrappypianist]

As someone who's been following GIMP 3's development for the past 65 years, I'm thrilled that it's finally around the corner. I look forward to being able to install 3.0 final when it's released in 2031.

[@stepheningermany]

lmao!

[@MarcoKrieger]

I find your time table for the release of Gimp 3.0 a little bit rushed. Let's give them a time frame that is more realistic and say it comes out in 2050.

[@ralfbaechle]

@@MarcoKrieger That has some logistics problems - but if it's ok we're going to ship you a complementary copy of Gimp 3.0 for IBM 1401 on punch card to your future residence in row 7, 6 feet under way. Please let us know if you would like it in a zinc, oak or maple box. Serious, the release cycles of Gimp are just painfully long. Their website says a tentative release date for 3.0 will be in May 2024. Whops, wrong tense ... There are still quite a few items open on their development schedule so I'd honestly be surprised by a May 2025 release.

[@MarcoKrieger]

@@ralfbaechle 😂👍 I would like to have it in oak, please.

[@antoninsvrdlik7526]

And will have those fancy never seen features🤌 And it will be so user friendly and intuitive as usualy - Gimp developers please never change what you do so well!

[@StateoftheFranchiseGaming]

Non-Destructive editing is MASSIVE and worthy of 3.0!

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

It only just made it in, too

[@Aeduo]

Yeah this is definitely one of the huge things that's been long-missing. Coming from audio though, it would be nice if any parameter could be fed by any surface for per-pixel parameterization.

[@zorglub76]

It's worthy of 3.0 if Gimp was at v.12.0 at the moment.... I wanted to like Gimp for a long time, but it always felt clunky and outdated.

[@aaaa-f8g6s]

you guys have no idea how long I have been waiting for non-destructive editing in gimp. praise the devs for this gamechanging game changer

[@sudrajad4743]

Thanks to you and the GIMP developers, awesome

[@Mordforic]

I was always bigger Gimp than a Photoshop fan, now this is a game changer, especially the non-destructive editing!

[@MrLelopes]

Gimp is finally catching up to the industry. That`s great. I own affinity pack right now, but it is very important to keep donating for open source projects everytime I can

[@michaelgrosberg2665]

it's catching up to where the industry (i.e. photoshop) was 20 years ago.

[@MrLelopes]

@@michaelgrosberg2665 And yet, it is soon becoming our only Non rental/subscription bs. So yeah... I will keep supporting it.

[@Dave102693]

@@michaelgrosberg2665it needs to catch up massively, just like how MS Paint was also 20 years behind for a long time.

[@gg-gn3re]

@@michaelgrosberg2665 well photoshop started adding non destructive editing features only 12 years ago. They didn't really have complete non destructive until about 5 years ago

[@trilight3597]

​@@michaelgrosberg2665 Maybe Open Source can get another win like Blender. Just started with Blender 3.0

[@thegodxxxx]

In India, we r using RGB color for editing n designing. When it send for printing, the printing station will convert this RGB to CMYK color. I hav send thousands of designs for printing, bt I never worked with CMYK.

[@Mike-jl4xt]

When I was in high school, everyone was waiting for Gimp 3.0 because it wouldn't be there for long. Now I'm 38 years old and I wonder if my children will live to see Gimp 3.0

[@ManaurysSuazo]

Always appreciate your videos

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

Thank you!

[@mohamedmohsen6254]

When they add quick select or select object or magic select tool? These tools are the deciding factor for moving to this wonderful program.

[@no-one3795]

Nice. Can't wait for it to be released the next decade! 😆

[@gammingtoch259]

Its iphone add "new features" hahahahahha

[@gammingtoch259]

@mohanmh-m6g lol and horrible, free is not = to horrible, i use many open source and greats.apps

[@gammingtoch259]

@mohanmh-m6g lol and horrible, free is not = to horrible, i use many open source and greats.apps

[@Linuxdirk]

They recently released a release-candidate. So I hope they will release the final version in Q2/2025.

[@no-one3795]

@@Linuxdirk Yeah. I've checked it and it's amazing! Can't wait for the final release

[@rlocatellidigital]

This is a great evolution! Regarding the CMYK color scheme, on screens we can only get an idea of ​​appearance, since true CMYK can only be seen on paper.

[@TimthePhilosiraptorExhale]

and that is all we have ever needed, a 'as close as possible' approximation on our screens so that the prints wont give us unpleasant surprises. cmyk support is a game changer for print work, and has been a personal disappointment in gimp for a very long time.

[@mlaallday]

I remember downloading gimp 2.2 in like 2008. I moved onto photoshop years ago but its cool to see that gimp has finally reached 3.0. Looks like quite a nice update as well!

[@aaaaaa-bo4kv]

We have been waiting for this version for toooooo long.

[@3polygons]

Live editing is really powerful, but smart guides for me is a must in every app. Huge kudos to the devs for adding it. You can live without them, but makes certain work immensely faster and accurate. I was hoping for a full CMYK mode, but if the preview/proof mode is accurate and has improvements over what we had, it's fine, for now. I hope full "Adobe RGB" (RGB color space) editing will make it into 3.0, as it was the purpose. It is really important for those of us handling wide gamut monitors, sRGB leaves many of those extra tones out.

[@EDLR234]

Back in my day all we had was some weird green peeper brush for some reason no one could remember ... ... ... and we liked it that way!

[@nickzane4695]

Wow, this is really good news, especially the one about cmyk colors

[@barkingbandicoot]

This will be awesome! Thanks GIMP devs!

[@mqbaka]

Thank you for this. The multiple layers selection is going to be a game changer. Hopefully if will make the use of the align tool easier.

[@porphiriycat1712]

Explore RC1 right now! Really exiting and very positive changes! Thanks for all your videos Davies!

[@TheTISEOMan]

Getting excited for GIMP 3.0 is like getting excited that you can eat your tasteless soup with a spoon now instead of your hands.

[@satyamevajayate7263]

It feels like a snail 🐌 is crossing my yard to my room… coming…coming…coming…still coming. 👀

[@PremierPrep]

So excited for GIMP 3.0! Really want a good plugin for using stable diffusion like the Acly plugin for Krita!

[@Linuxdirk]

Non-destructive editing (almost) everywhere and bounding box alignment to me as a non-professional user are absolutely great things. Not sure if it worth the 20 years "wait time" since Gimp 2 release, but definitely a welcoming feature. Let's hope they will be able to finalize both features to perfection till 2044 for the Gimp 4 release.

[@amcds2867]

Incredible that this software is free!

[@johnc3403]

It's just a different funding model.

[@amcds2867]

@@johnc3403 free for it's users, contrary to competing software. That is a significant difference. That said I'm not criticizing paid software, especially how affordable it's become when compared to pricing a couple of decades ago.

[@Joe_334]

I use this alongside VRoid Studio. 3d characters wearing textures, and custom hair, accessories, clothing, eye wear, their complexion. GIMP helps with all of this, and there are people coming up with insane designs. I say this definitely got me back into digital art.

[@codrexking951]

Thank You for the updates, Recently was gimp my best photo editing and logo design in my personal passion. So really appreciate be Gimp app for best editing software for me

[@testtest-bb2dt]

Hope 3.0 will be released by 2030.

[@gideonsteward93]

they sure take long

[@webtantras]

😂

[@Beryesa.]

I hope this can cause enough momentum to gather the community "back", even a quarter of the blender 2.80 effect would be exponential :D Glad to see you around again.

[@arcanosam]

Very cool, thanks for share. I like the Dynamic guides functionality

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

Definitely a nice addition 👌

[@ranjithsiji]

Super Awsome presentation of the quick overview of all features. Thanks. :) Can you do detailed videos about all the features?

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

I will once GIMP 3.0 gets released.

[@MarcusManig]

That's great! Especially the non-destructive editing. Now i can get rid of RawTherapee and use only Gimp!

[@LinuxCreative]

Excellent update about The GIMP! Thanks.

[@Stratelier]

The biggest feature I am waiting for would be real-time tablet detection. GIMP 2.x is (and always was) notorious for ONLY checking for a tablet during startup (and often failing, requiring a full app restart to try again). "Smart guides" is basically just on-canvas snapping for various object types, not near as comprehensive as Inkscape's options but very powerful and welcome nonetheless. GIMP wasn't great at manually-placed guides anyway (you can place them independent of which tool is active, but you can ONLY move/delete them with the Move tool? Inkscape is a little more intiutive with prioritizing clicking on a guide over the tool's regular function) . "Text outlines" is basically just like Inkscape's standard fill/stroke options -- and just as welcome to get. Non-destructive layer effects have a benefit of not needing to keep a backup copy of the layer in the event you need to revert to it -- which sounds kind of obvious, of course, but means smaller file sizes on disk.

[@accolon24]

This is awesome, can't wait! Thanks as always for the super helpful videos

[@maciejgrzyb4514]

Thank you for this valuable information :)

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

My pleasure!

[@LiamQuin]

For outline text there’s also Tools/GEGL Operation/GEGL Styles, which is more powerful (and with 3.0 also non-destructive so you can still edit the text)

[@Azamyth]

My favorite feature coming in 3.0 is an expanded key/button config so i can set it up for easy, intuitive and quick pan/zoom/move like you can in 2.8

[@JOEZEP54]

Thank you 👍👍👍

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

No problem 👍

[@distortions1]

Very exciting changes!

[@TechieSewing]

Multi-layer selection, finally! Non-destructive stroke is good, I'd like a non-destructive drop shadow too, as I still have to remake it each time I change the text currently.

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

The Drop Shadow effect will be non-destructive in GIMP 3.0, along with any other effect or filter you add to your composition.

[@bocarlsson3rd]

These new features are a huge leap for GIMP and I hope even more improvements will come soon now when Adobe is going up in flames. I bought the affinity suite when there was a sale but have been using gimp for several years exclusively and it's been tough sometimes. Now there might be a bright future for GIMP.

[@2mustange]

Now if only they can speed up and get the RC out. I assume it will be in October if they did the string freeze last month. From there i wonder if we are going to see a December release

[@fabioarturo]

Thanks you. Gimp 3.0 when I can't wait

[@joalva63]

Very good news. Thanks for sharing. 😀

[@thedeyron]

Watching you after almost 6 years 😢

[@CathrineMacNiel]

Neat... GIMP 3.0 will then finally be able to catch up a bit to Krita.

[@MegaEyeTV]

Is there a date of the release?

[@JohnTravena]

Big improvement. Any word on when?

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

Unfortunately, no

[@JohnTravena]

@@DaviesMediaDesign Thanks!

[@GustavoM.D.]

GIMP took too long time to get native outlined text. Awating for a stable release of GIMP 3.

[@iamwatchingthisvid.7682]

I will be waiting for vector support or similar feature to smart object

[@zaelu]

Fingers crossed for a soon to be released Photogimp for Gimp 3.0 :D

[@tmsdev]

Has Gimp really gotten that good! 👍

[@ItsWesSmithYo]

Nice, good stuff, does what I need, also they basically copy Adobe, and im here for that, but also realizing I can expect new features I don’t need about 10 years after the Adobe Roadmap 😂🖤

[@m3rl1on]

Layer set is just folders / groups then, right?

[@Ariezzable]

how about resizing image? it can be affected quality of image after multiple changes.

[@Mithferion]

I'm happy for the GIMP users even if I don't use it

[@OroZetticci]

Any chance you consider posting your videos on PeerTube as well?

[@als_pals]

Why are dynamic guides hidden under a setting no new user will ever find?

[@fishbarbeque8540]

CANT WAIT!!!!!

[@msscoventry]

Looking forward to the release

[@theyellowarchitect4504]

Outline text? FINALLY. A decade late, but I appreciate it. I no longer need to paste the text to a new canvas, then select the letters, then select -> pixel grow -> paint black + select -> feather -> paint black Was so bloated for something so simple!

[@marilenagalindotabares4410]

Muy buena noticia. Gracias por informar.

[@TheNoirKamui]

Text outline is always such a pain... If I remember correctly, the "easiest" way today was something like: Alpha to selection, new layer from selection, grow the selection some pixels, fill, and put under the original layer... and link to move them together... so annoying and most of all difficult to find out if you are new to gimp.

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

Yeah, it's been a pain. But relief is coming with the Outline Text feature!

[@THommersom]

The last time you said gimp wil comes soon, was februari??, so I hope it will realy come soon ;>). That sead, those new features are realy awsome.

[@zaelu]

Photoshop like interface and keyboard shortcuts is what we really need...

[@smartartcreations]

Photogimp is your answer

[@zaelu]

@@smartartcreations Thank you very much!!! I never knew it existed!!!

[@fuseteam]

Everybody talking about _what_ to expect, but nobody asks _when_ to expect

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

That's because it's already 5 months late, and GIMP developers hardly provide any kind of timelines or updated timelines.

[@fuseteam]

@DaviesMediaDesign yeah true, it is still not out xd

[@swapnilnagtilak1861]

Inkscape was on my mind, and later, I got it is about gimp.

[@ravanin]

I can't believe the outline is just coming out now

[@AMProSoft]

It's been a long time coming.

[@gg-gn3re]

been using 2.99 for like 10 years... this was supposed to come out ~year ago too man the suspense.

[@enosunim]

Thanks for actually useful video! Looking forward for KZbin 3.0 release, where more useful videos will be, and less vertical short clickbait title and preview trash. = )

[@CTRL_SMarcos]

Great, thanks for the video. I guess all this will affect the performance. Are higher minimum requirements going to be involved? One more thing. Please, don't fill Gimp with garbage. I'm talking about AI, of course. Let someone take care of it in the form of a pluggin, like in Krita, for example.

[@c.augustin]

Layer effects are nice, and I do like the interface - but as far as I can see, they can't be masked (like adjustment layers in Adobe Photoshop and Affinity Photo). So, still a long way to go.

[@vishal4nw]

That's awesome 🤜

[@thalateye]

All jokes aside... the upcoming versions of GIMP, Inkscape and Freecad are opening the door for wider adoption. The most annoying parts of these software packages are finally being fixed and now they will work how we intuitively expect them to work.

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

Exactly!

[@SeanRiley-s2f]

We live in hope.

[@DiegoWeb13]

Hello Michael, great news video. 🔝🔝🔝👏👏🎬👍Very nice the outline function on the text. 🔝💥👍A big hello✨👍

[@lilylu8648]

I am new to GIMP, for me it's not intuitive to use. But it's a huge software with so many tools and functions, and also it's a free software. We can't request more.

[@jasim-dev]

blender is also a free open source but it updates a lot and is loved by tons of ppl

[@theKingsAmbassadors]

Great stuff!

[@icanvendetta]

Gimp be like : 🗿🔥 Adobe be like : my time has come .

[@judemorales4U]

That's great news! Thank you.

[@inout3394]

Thx

[@pawall3deller468]

The implementation of groups is not very good... But thank you very much for the rest!

[@JohnDoe1999-lg7mh]

non-destructive editing is way, wat overdue. When will the interface move to the 21st century.

[@PremierPrep]

Can we also talk about the fact that the UI looks WAY better!

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

I've been using GIMP stable and unstable versions so long that I'm UI blind

[@PremierPrep]

@@DaviesMediaDesign Haha! I get it! But the Improvements are very welcome to the theming!

[@NCHEstudio]

Cool!

[@Not-Only-Reaper-Tutorials]

it should be already out but we're almost in october 2024

[@wolfenstein6676]

Has anyone got an answer for this problem I'm experiencing with "GIMP 2.10"? I use the "free select" tool and highlight some areas on my image, I then fill those areas with a colour and I now want to change the mode of that colour fill to something such as "hard light" or "multiply" etc., but I don't know how. In "GIMP 2.8" it was straightforward, but not anymore.

[@wolfenstein6676]

I managed to install GIMP 2.8 on Linux Mint using the "Bottles" program, happy days. The "fade fill with foreground colour" tool is what's missing from GIMP 2.10, (it appears in the "edit" drop-down menu in version 2.8 once you've done what I mentioned in my original post). There's no videos on KZbin that highlight the use of this GIMP tool.

[@louisfifteen]

When when when?

[@DTPIIXART]

It looks like GIMP is all one window now also. That was the one thing that made me quit using it before. It was just weird. I may have to give this new version a try. I have Affinity Photo currently, which I love, but who knows it's future now that Canva owns it. I don't need a lot of features... just some lighting adjustment abilities, add text with outlines, and that's pretty much it. Looks like GIMP has all that covered.

[@TechDesignHub]

Shape shape tools

[@heizze7779]

selection brush my beloved...

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

It's my understanding that they pretty much abandoned the Selection Brush because of issues with the algorithm it used

[@heizze7779]

@@DaviesMediaDesign maybe someday.

[@MSaTTarKhan]

is Gimp as good as PS?

[@RubenGoMoRadioboyPlus]

I really want to use Gimp. At the moment it is still impossible.

[@joelsanchesjunior7793]

When it will be released ?

in 30 years

[@smartartcreations]

Still no layer effects like shadow, glow. bump etc? Krita has it since ages, I wonder why Gimp still doesn't have them?

[@iyason6878]

Let's go camping together

[@curtisnewton895]

did they fix the crap UI they made ? I went back to 2.8, could not find anything anymore

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

I believe they tweaked it a smidge

[@_kopiter_]

How can Gimp suck so much? Trying to do anything in it is just pain. It's seriously in trouble. There's nothing set up by default to start working easily, that definitely discourages new users. Even Pinta is better for any day to day casual usage.

[@DaviesMediaDesign]

It is about to improve drastically

[@Mushbee]

"Coming soon" 😆

[@HerbieBancock]

Maybe in another 40 years they'll figure out how to implement spot channels.