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.
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.
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.
Hopefully this upgrade involves a shape tool to draw a circle.
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.
One transparent.
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.
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...
Exactly what i do.
You could also use the select tool to draw a single circle, then go to the Select menu and click Border which will create the outer and inner selections with the width you specified between them. Much easier than selecting a circle and de-selecting the centre hole.
Well that does sound easier...
I only use GIMP for basic hobby projects so i havent learned all the ins and outs and am probably doing a bunch if things the hard way around haha.
Cheers friend
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.
Edit: Five downvotes. Apparently people don't know how to use vectors in bitmap authoring software, or why selections are the lossy way to create shapes. See details in my comments below.
You want a vector editing software like inkscape. GIMP only does rasterized graphics.
Raster editing programs can support vector shapes. They are rasterised during export, not when the shape is created.
Look at how to create, move and transform a circle in photoshop (or if you don't want to give adobe money, use photopea).
@SaharaMaleikuhm @spartanatreyu As of GIMP 3.2, we have vector layers: https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-3.2.html#vector-layers
You can also export to vectorized PDF or SVG (with an option for Inkscape SVG to retain shared project settings). Inkscape is definitely the better choice for dedicated vector work, but vectors as part of a composition is possible now in GIMP.
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.
Do you understand how bitmaps and raster drawing works?
Yes I know the difference between vector and bitmaps
Everything is represented as a 2d array of pixels.
Only after the rasterization has taken place.
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.
The problem is that the selection itself can lose information, it's handled internally as a raster mask. That's why you should use a real vector shape.
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.
No. Raster editors can support vector shapes. They vectors are rasterized during the final export, not while creating the shape (which is lossy and what selection shapes are).
Look at how to create, move and transform a circle in photoshop (or if you don’t want to give adobe money, use photopea).
Circles are not possible in raster graphics, so any attempt to add a circle tool without also adding vector support is inherently DOA. /s
Step 1: make a circle in geogebra
Step 2: copy/paste it into gimp
Step 3: there is no step 3
URL appears to have moved: https://testing.gimp.org/news/2026/08/16/dev-update-august-2026/
Thanks! Updated
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
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.
The only things I'd like to see right now is the port GTK4 and the OKLAB/OKLCH color space.
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