GIMP 3.0 Feedback

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3.0 is big for GIMP. Lots of features to make it viable for simple Desktop Publishing and YouTube thumbs.

Created a quick poster: https://i.imgur.com/pPgy255.png Stuff that needs work:

  • UI/UX: “Tool->GEGL Operation…” is too much friction for such a common operation- just pop it up when you click on the “FX” button in the layers window.

  • UI/UX: Naming. Drop shadows and glow are currently not discoverable (its squirreled away in the generic “GEGL Styles”).

  • UI/UX: “Move Tool” should act like a common entry point to other tools if you’re not dragging. Switch to “Transform Tool” if I single click an image layer. Switch to the “Text Tool” if I single click a Text layer! Please!

  • UI/UX: Copying/pasting layer styles does not work. Users can overlook many issues if you can duplicate/destroy layer styles easily. Preset system is cumbersome. Idea: Presets usable from the Layers window directly (could be just add/apply presets) would help a lot, but just copy/paste would probably be better.

  • BUG: Layers often clip GEGL Glow. Again could be worked around by just easy copy/paste of layer styles. See clipping present on “GIMP Halloween Party” text in my image.

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Hi and welocme to the forum.

For this kind of feedback, you’re likely better off putting it directly in the gimp bug tracker: Making sure you're not a bot!

For UX of “its burried in some menu” you can press the backslash key, a search dialog appears, type the first few letters of what you want, then select the item from the results. I haven’t been in a gimp menu in a while.