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The only things I’d like to see right now is the port GTK4 and the OKLAB/OKLCH color space.
GIMP is perfect as it is and the haters are wrong. I use it almost every day!
gimp - it took a while, but finally learned to love it! Totally worth it 😊Thanks for excellent software
Please be a ground-up rebuild of the entire fucking UI by people who know what UX is and who aren’t the type of people who put blue text on a red background…
lol yeah right, who am I kidding. I think I’m gonna take this opportunity to go see if the PhotoGIMP guy has a donate link.
Fuck no. I am familiar with GIMPs UI so they can never change it or I am completely screwed. You can learn it too or you can make your own.
Right? People who are familiar with proprietary software assume them being used to navigating that mess means the UI there is better
Pay for it, instead of demanding stuff for free.so entitled.
At least there’s non-destructive editing. That always has been a massive argument against GIMP. I used Krita over GIMP for that reason alone.
Hopefully this upgrade involves a shape tool to draw a circle.
Step 1: make a circle in geogebra
Step 2: copy/paste it into gimp
Step 3: there is no step 3
Circles are not possible in raster graphics, so any attempt to add a circle tool without also adding vector support is inherently DOA. /s
Why would anyone need to draw a circle though?
Drawing three red lines, all perpendicular to each other is the minimum I expect from the new gimp.
I want to be able to draw four lines perpendicular to each other. That’s my bottom line and I won’t settle for anything less.
One transparent.
What’s the problem with making a circle with the select tool and then tracing it or filling it? It’s not hard to make a circle in GIMP…
That’s not a circle, that’s a grid of pixels being colored in. It’s a lossy representation of something else.
A circle is a shape which is a graphics primitive. Graphics primitives can be moved, transformed, skewed, etc… with no loss of information.
If you do that with a grid of pixels, you’re going to lose information.
Do you understand how bitmaps and raster drawing works? Everything is represented as a 2d array of pixels. The circle selection before you paint can be moved/scaled/etc and then when you actually want to draw the circle trace the path with the appropriate thickness and use antialiasing if you need to smooth it.
If you want to make vector drawings, take a look at InkScape. GIMP is the wrong tool for that, so use the right tool for the job if that’s what you want to do.
You want a vector editing software like inkscape. GIMP only does rasterized graphics.
URL appears to have moved: https://testing.gimp.org/news/2026/08/16/dev-update-august-2026/
Thanks! Updated
Gimp is horrible, I hope this update will actually fix that… ah, what a joke, of course it won’t
Random but I had just assumed Gimp updated when I updated other packages, but it turns out I’m using some comically old version (2.1?) and have never seen the newer versions.
This update seems neat, maybe it’ll finally be worth upgrading to.
The version of a program depends on where you got that program from.
If the latest version is old you might be using the Ubuntu or Debian package which prioritize stability over modernity.
