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Is GIMP 3.0 about to come out? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just had a look at the GIMP 3.0 milestones page and saw this.

Am I missing anything or is GIMP 3.0 actually going to be released soon?!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I appreciate your insights in the matter, and with 3.0 here I may have to give GIMP another try!

I heard 3.0 came out today but I haven't quite gotten around to trying it out. (I just got home recently, so...) I think I'll go do that now! :)

Edit:

Sigh... Yeah it definitely still needs improvements.

If I copy/paste an image onto a blank canvas (where the canvas is bigger than the pasted image), then press Shift-Ctrl-X to crop to selection; it doesn't work.

So I look it up and find that the Crop to Selection option is located under the Image tab. Okay, so I click Image and go to click Crop to Selection. It's greyed out.

I go to find out why, and according to the Documentation, it is greyed out if "there is no selection for the image".

The Crop to Selection command crops only the active layer to the boundary of the selection by removing any strips at the edge whose contents are all completely unselected. Areas which are partially selected (for example, by feathering) are not cropped. If there is no selection for the image, the menu entry is insensitive and grayed out.

Why it doesn't automatically treat copy/pasted layers as selections is beyond me. Most other paint software (even MS Paint!) does this. It's basic design nowadays.

Just why? Why does GIMP have to hurt me like this? T_T

Edit 2:

And it needs to have Lanczos interpolation available for resizing. At present, it only has Linear, Cubic, NoHalo, and LoHalo, whatever the hell those last two are as I've never heard of them before.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're welcome - I hope you have a good time with it!

If you have pasted an image but not yet made any selections on it then I would have thought that there is no selection to crop to yet. What are you trying to crop?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You’re welcome - I hope you have a good time with it!

I appreciate that. Thank you.

If you have pasted an image but not yet made any selections on it then I would have thought that there is no selection to crop to yet.

Only if you press ctrl-v while having no canvas open. But, if you have a canvas open already, and the canvas is bigger than the image is, you'd want to crop to selection which would get rid of all the extra canvas around the actual image.

Although, looking back at Edit 1, yeah I should've been more specific. That's on me. Apologies, I have rephrased. :)

Edit 1:

Also, I realize I got a little heated with Edit 1 & 2. I do apologize if I came across as rude. Again, I have very little but respect for the people who work on this, and believe in the project. Unfortunately, it does have quite a ways to go; but hopefully with the work that has been with the 3.0 backend overhaul those other things can come sooner than what has come before. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Ah OK, I understand. Yes, it sounds like it would make sense for GIMP to offer the option to immediately crop in that case.

If it's a helpful alternative, you can also drag an image from another application onto the GIMP logo above the toolbox to open it as a new file, rather than pasting it onto one which is already open. I often do this when I want to open something from my web browser :)