GIMP 3.0 has been more than one decade in the making as the port from GTK2 to GTK3, also transitioning away from Python 2 to Python 3 support, and a wealth of other improvements from the UI to lower down into enhancing this open-source Photoshop alternative.
The GIMP project announced on X/Twitter today that they have entered the string freeze for this much anticipated release.
I’m a casual GIMP user. What are the key benefits of v3?
The biggest thing is probably non-destructive editing, so you can do stuff like apply filters without them changing the underlying image. Gtk3 should add better support for tablets and wayland. There’s also better layer tools and font support. A lot of it was on the backend, which should eventually allow for using other color spaces like cmyk natively.
That’s great! Now if only they’d stop thinking disability is funny, they might have a program worth using!
It’s too bad that GLIMPSE fork never took off.
Isn’t the latest version of gtk gtk4?
They’ve been working on porting it since back in 2012, and didn’t want to redo a bunch of the porting work before they even released it.
