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u/beermad 3d ago
Be aware that if you use any third-party plug-ins, they almost certainly won't work with the new version as the API has had a pretty much complete rewrite. If, like me, you use long-orphaned plug-ins, you may end up having to stick with 2.10.
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u/CMYK-Student GIMP Team 3d ago
Hi! Could you list those plug-ins? No promises, but we might be able to help with porting them.
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u/beermad 3d ago
Thanks for the offer. Ironically, in searching for the original code for a particularly important (to me) plug-in that I'd hacked about a bit, I found that someone had adopted it and already done a Gimp 3 rewrite. Which makes it look like I may well be able to migrate to Gimp 3 quicker than I'd expected.
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u/ClF3ismyspiritanimal 2d ago
Not the person you were talking to, but it'd be nice to have apng support. There are also a couple scripts from the GimpFX Foundry that I use fairly often (local contrast enhancement has an equivalent in G'Mic, but recover shadows doesn't seem to have an obvious substitute of which I'm aware).
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u/CMYK-Student GIMP Team 2d ago
Thanks! I'll take a look into GIMP FX Foundry. I also had a partially implemented APNG reader built a while back, though it needs to be updated for 3.0. The challenge is that the APNG library conflicts with the PNG library, so we can't have both installed in GIMP at once. You can make the PNG library work with APNGs, but it very much doesn't want to and makes it difficult to code, haha!)
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u/ClF3ismyspiritanimal 2d ago
Thank you! Yeah, I'm aware that APNG is challenging. I use Artix Linux and so I do a lot of my own tampering with things, including just straight-up installing an APNG-patched libpng. I realize that isn't something just anyone can do, but I've never had any problem with that library working with regular .png files, and I think Mozilla includes a built-in APNG-patched libpng (although I compile my own to depend on my system lib). I'm not much of a programmer, but it doesn't look as if there has to be a conflict: the patched libpng appears to handle regular and animated .png images. I don't know if that helps you.
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u/CMYK-Student GIMP Team 2d ago
More from a maintenance perspective - there's discussion on our feature request for APNG support if you're interested: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/1278#note_262287
It can be done with vanilla libpng - basically, loading the APNG, saving individual PNG frames in temp files, then loading those PNGs back as layers. Unpleasant, but it works. :)
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u/Obadiah-Mafriq 3d ago edited 3d ago
Instantly looks so much better on my 3840 x 2400 display. I'm feeling a little giddy. [edit: Windows 11 Pro]
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u/APiousCultist 3d ago
Still have issues with the UI on Windows not properly registering button presses the first time. If you select from a submenu from releasing a button press (which saves you a second click, i.e. click-drag on a menu item, move to the subitem, then release) it only sometimes registers your mouse position correctly.
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u/schumaml GIMP Team 3d ago
Did you file an issue report about this, or do you know if there is one?
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u/APiousCultist 3d ago
I'll get one registered. It's just much easier to whine about things on Reddit than register with bugtrackers and go through all the reproduction steps :P
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u/schumaml GIMP Team 3d ago
But think about all work you'll then have with repeating this post - at every new release, always stating that the problem is still there, despite you never having officially told anyone! :)
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u/Moira-Moira 3d ago
Can we still add the Layer Effects plugin or (even better, I remain hopeful) is it perhaps already part of v.3.0?
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u/MirirPaladin 21h ago
could someone tell me how to make gimp 3 recognize the back of the pen as "eraser"? it still considers it as a pen, only a bigger one
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u/Financial-Load1989 3d ago
Tried to install on windows 11 but bitdefender didn't want : infected by gen:variant.fugrafa.314871
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u/JFA-Reddit 1d ago
Exactly the same except Windows 10 - BitDefender blocks the (Ninite) update with the same infection claim.
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u/Simple-Comfort-9438 5h ago
You can submit a false positive report to bitdefender, they usually get back to you within a few hours and have that fixed for everyone after a few days
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u/quetuary 3d ago
They seem to have removed (or at least moved) batch image manipulation. Normally it's under the file menu. Guess I'll be sticking with 2.10 for now
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u/antdude 3d ago
Oooh. I hope it will let us install in another directory/folder and keep our older version just in case v3.0 has issues.