GIMP - GIMP 3.0 Released
www.gimp.org
Release notes for GIMP 3.0
  • weker01@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    1 day ago

    No, no, no. It’s the end of times. I can hear the trumpets of the apocalypse.

    Now Valve needs to release half life 3 and the world as we know it will truly perish.

    Jokes aside. I hope this means work on a UI overhaul can seriously begin.

  • TheWilliamist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    To all of the authors below who have disparaging opinions on the UX/UI experience and or the download ability. It’s a volunteer project for a reason. If you have such grand ideas and abilities put your money where your fingers are and fucking sign up.

  • XNX@slrpnk.net
    1·
    2 days ago

    zero screenshots on the announcement page and zero screenshots on the homepage. Exactly what i expect from gimp lol

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
    2·
    2 days ago

    Man, after decades, why does GIMP still have a marketing problem?

    Just visit https://www.gimp.org/ and compare it to https://www.adobe.com/ca/products/photoshop.html

    Just assume both did exactly the same thing and cost the exact same amount (free or otherwise). Which would you choose based on their website?

    Why does GIMP (and pretty much all FOSS) have to be so secretive about their product? Why no screenshots? Why not showcase the software on their website?

    It’s so damn frustrating that every FOSS app appears to be command line software, or assumed that the user knows everything about it already.

    Devs, you might have a killer piece of software, but screenshots go a long way to help with gaining interest and adoption.

    • kaerypheur@lemmy.world
      11·
      19 hours ago

      Hey, you look interested in becoming a marketing volunteer for GIMP. While GIMP is not as competitive in marketing as the others, you can help them if you want. 😎

    • umbrella@lemmy.ml
      0·
      1 day ago

      dont forget how they expect you to compile it. some projects offer a nice .msi for windows, a .whatever for mac, and then linux users just get a link to their github. i mean cmon.

      edit: i’m not talking specifically about gimp, my dudes.

      • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip
        0·
        2 days ago

        “They” most of the times is solo devs and you can’t blame them for that. GIMP does have flatpak, appimages, etc.

    • piconaut@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      01·
      2 days ago

      I actually like the GIMP website homepage more than the one for photoshop.

      Its simple and efficient. If I want to know more I would go to documentation or tutorials.

      The photoshop site just looks like a random squarespace template with a bunch of stock photos.

      • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
        1·
        2 days ago

        If I want to know more I would go to documentation or tutorials.

        See, that’s not normal, though. You shouldn’t need to “dig deeper” to find out what a product is or what it does.

        The well-designed homepage should simply tell you that within seconds of visiting. Any additional clicks should only be to “learn more”, but not to learn about.

        If this was an analogy, imagine a street lined with restaurants.

        On one side you’ve got “Vinny’s Italian Pizzeria”, “Joe’s Burgers and Fries”, and “Mary’s Bakery and Treats”. Each has posters of what they sell posted on the windows, and a QR code to their online menu.

        On the other you have “Sal’s Food”, “Frank’s More Food”, “Sal’s”. The windows are either covered in brown paper, or have stock images of “food”, but nothing specific about what they actually make. To learn more, you have to go inside, ask someone for a menu, wait for that menu, then have a look. But the menu lacks photos! You either have to know what they are describing to you in the menu, or you would have to have already dined there before.

        Does the latter experience sound good? Because that’s how too many open-source projects present themselves, and it’s to the loss of the volunteer devs and their potential user base.

    • superkret@feddit.org
      0·
      2 days ago

      Open Source software is not a product that needs marketing.
      The devs making Gimp gain literally nothing from you downloading and using it.
      Stop applying capitalist logic to one of the few aspects of life that haven’t been monetized yet.

      • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
        0·
        2 days ago

        Open Source software is not a product that needs marketing.

        That’s highly debatable.

        Surely, if nobody is using the software, then there’s no incentive to keep making it.

        Marketing generates interest. Interest gets users. Users (hopefully) get donations and/or contributions to the project.

        Even from a purely practical standpoint, why not be clear and avoid wasting people’s time as they try to figure out what exactly a project is about?

        I’m not suggesting that GIMP take out Facebook ads. But my god, would a few screenshots kill the project?

        • superkret@feddit.org
          1·
          2 days ago

          Surely, if nobody is using the software, then there’s no incentive to keep making it.

          Making a tool you or the company you work for need yourself, fun, learning, community, doing good, showing off, status, being remembered, (even if it’s just in a circle of 10 people)…

          Marketing generates interest. Interest gets users. Users (hopefully) get donations and/or contributions to the project.

          Irrelevant for the vast majority of open source projects, which will never be financially profitable.

          why not be clear and avoid wasting people’s time as they try to figure out what exactly a project is about?

          Maybe because the volunteers working on the project in their free time are programmers, not marketers or good communicators?
          Also, they aren’t wasting anybody’s time by creating useful software and giving it away for free.

          I realize I’m being confrontational towards you, but this mindset of demanding things from people who literally give away free stuff with no strings attached rubs me the wrong way, every single time. And this mindset is much too prevalent, even to the point of harassing, insulting and threatening open source devs for choices they make in their projects.

          The devs owe you nothing. If you don’t like what they do, simply don’t use it.
          There are other options out there, but they may come with a $23/month price tag.