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.

  • IronKrill
    512·
    22 days ago

    Still no smart objects/non-destructive editing? :(

    • leopold@lemmy.kde.social
      32·
      22 days ago

      Er, yes. It’s one of the main features being introduced in 3.0. I don’t know why you would just assume they’re not adding it without looking it up. It made quite a bit of noise when it started being in the works.

      • IronKrill
        13·
        22 days ago

        Oh! Well that’s awesome then, thanks for the correction. I did look it up but ended up on some “top feature” article which barely mentioned any features beyond layer multi select. I should have looked further.