Wow. GIMP 3.0.0 stable is available today.

[usonian]

Going to try it today. (it's raining, can't take photos)
https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/
GIMP 3.0 Released
2025-03-16 by GIMP Team

At long last, the first release of GIMP 3.0 is here! This is the end result of seven years of hard work by volunteer developers, designers, artists, and community members (for reference, GIMP 2.10 was first published in 2018 and the initial development version of GIMP 3.0 was released in 2020). With GIMP 3.0 you can do more than ever before, more easily, more quickly!



While we can’t cover every single change in GIMP from 2.10, we want to highlight some of the biggest ones as you start exploring this new release.
Highlights

Need to tweak a filter you applied hours ago? New in GIMP 3.0 is non-destructive editing for most commonly-used filters. See the changes in real time with on-canvas preview.

Exchange files with more applications, including BC7 DDS files as well as better PSD export and many new formats.

Don’t know how big to make your drawing? Simply set your paint tool to expand layers automatically as needed.

Making pro-quality text got easier, too. Style your text, apply outlines, shadows, bevels, and more, and you can still edit your text, change font and size, and even tweak the style settings.

Organizing your layers has become much easier with the ability to select multiple items at once, move them or transform them all together!

Color Management was again improved, as our long-term project to make GIMP an advanced image editor for all usages.

Updated graphical toolkit (GTK3) for modern desktop usage.

New Wilber logo!

Learn More

We’ve prepared release notes to go over all the changes, improvements, new features, and more. And if you’d like even more details, you can peruse the NEWS changelog for all 2.99 and 3.0 RC releases.

But to see it for yourself, you can get GIMP 3.0 directly from our Downloads page and try it out!

» READ COMPLETE RELEASE NOTES «
https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-3.0.html

[FirstLight]

1. Well, I gess this is my *sign* to go get it!

I was trying to re-do my logo a few days ago and even thought to myself I should just do Gimp... Glad to know there's a new version!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Good news. GIMP 2.10.38 user here. . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Downloaded, installed, comes up, looks good. I'll work with it later. . . . nt

[Pinback]

3. Thanks, I'll give it a go.

I used Photoshop and Lightroom for years, but when they went to a subscription-only model they lost me (though I do still use a pay-to-own version of Photoshop Elements). I bought a copy of Capture One and have upgraded a couple of times, but I've never warmed to the application and find aspects of it clunky or confusing.

It would be great if I could incorporate Gimp into my photography workflow, as I'm an avid amateur with a sizable backlog of images to sort through, cull, process, and print.

[druidity33]

4. In the same boat here...

I'm most familiar with Photoshop. Subscription service did it for me too. I'll give Gimp a try. Why not?



K&R

[usonian]

6. Gimp 2.x sometimes gives me fits. UI stuff.

And I am zero with layers. I mostly process jpegs from the cameras. And they are so good that Apple's Preview app does 99% of the photos splendidly. Gimp helps with tricky ones, like removing power lines and turning shadows bright. I'll post some examples in a bit.

My computer was too old in terms of OS to load the Nikon software, which is probably marvelous, but I am two releases behind again.

The camera jpegs are so damn nice that I don't do RAW, but I have Darktable and Raw Therapee loaded. (Free and Open Source).

The other use is memes for DU.

I think there are themes for GIMP that are very PS like.UI Stuff can be tweaked. More so with 3.0.