Gimp is a fantastic tool. I'm a developer who occasionally has to do some light graphics work and since I've started using it (~10 years ago?) have never missed Photoshop.

It'd be interesting to hear from Photoshop power users, who've made the switch, what they miss and what Gimp does better.

For those who didn't make it past the highlight list, here's the donation/support link: https://www.gimp.org/donating/ I just made a small donation and encourage others who use Gimp regularly to do the same.

I would like to point out, that GIMP made a huge progress in recent years :)

I am the author of https://www.Photopea.com, which is the image editor with the second best support for GIMP files (XCF) after the GIMP itself :) In the latest GIMP releases, I really appreciate Editable Text Layers and the support for DEFLATE data compression, which makes XCF files even smaller.

I created a document with a white background layer and a simple text layer both as PSD and XCF, and then ZIPped it:

XCF: 8.25 kB unzipped, 4.03 kB zipped

PSD: 81.10 kB unzipped, 7.96 kB zipped

Tons of awesome stuff, especially around GEGL, but this one is truly fantastic:

> This includes support for CMYK ICC profiles in babl (at this point, through LCMS2), direct CMYK support as part of relevant GEGL functions and core operations, and support for reading/writing CMYK data in TIFF and JPEG files. While not done yet, this work goes towards adding first-class CMYK support to GIMP.

GIMP's poorer CMYK handling was one of about three reasons it didn't take pride of center in a small graphic design shop (attached to a professional printer) I joined as an undergrad.

Nice to see G'MIC's smart colorize algorithm making its way into core GIMP. The research team worked with David Revoy, the character designer of several Blender open movies (such as Sintel or Spring), so I've heard a lot about it from him. He's written a few blog posts (e.g. [1]) and videos on how to use the Krita and GIMP implementations of the feature.

[1] https://www.davidrevoy.com/article324/smart-coloring-preview...

This release contains my first ever contribution to the project! It's a small one, but I still feel proud of it as a novice developer!

GIMP 2.10 felt like a big step-up in quality-of-life changes for me, I really recommend giving it a go if you've got an older version (Ubuntu 18.04 has 2.8)

I'm having a hard time moving to GIMP. But I really want to love it.

I've used Photoshop for almost 2 decades and recently moved over to Ubuntu. I always struggle with shortcuts and generally 'how it works'. Simply opening a file, doing some cropping or resizing and saving it as a different file type causes me headaches because I still think too much in Photoshop concepts.

How do I get out of this?

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As someone who has used Gimp on/off since the pre 1.0 days ie. when it was a Motif (Lesstif?) app, it certainly has come a long way.

One of the things that held it back (for me) for a long time was the lack of 16/32-bit colour processing, which it didn't get until the 2.9 (development builds) in 2015:

https://petapixel.com/2015/11/29/gimp-version-2-9-2-brings-1...

And of course this didn't make it into stable builds until around a year ago. I am very pleased with 2.10 overall, and these days I only start up Photoshop if there is something I can't do in Gimp 2.10.

Is it easy to for someone to transition from Photoshop to, yet?

Or is there any easy-to-underatand transition guides?

Love gimp and have used it forever, but not sure what they did with arbitrary rotation in the 2.10 branch, it's a bit of a mess. It used to be easy to fix photos with non-level horizons.

Now, every time I need to select the higher interpolation quality, preview results (huh), and put in my own guidelines manually since the builtin rotation guides are on the image itself (and rotate with it) instead of perpendicular to the window (wtf). Bass-ackwards?

Wonder if that was fixed, or perhaps I'm doing something wrong?

Anyone know if editing large images is less sluggish now than it was in the previous iteration of 2.10? I'm still using 2.8 because of that.