In this video, I provide an overview of the 5 best or most exciting features coming to the highly-anticipated GIMP 3.0 release! These are my 5 favorite new features coming to GIMP 3.0, including non-destructive editing, smart guides, and CMYK support.

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    2 months ago

    I’m super happy and excited for GIMP 3.0. I hate that this info was presented in a youtube video. I can gleam what I want to know from an article with bullet points (which I could find) but I’m sick of half the information I search for being returned in a video, with a fixed time commitment and imprecise “scrolling” to skip. I feel like in search and link aggregators, more and more content is video instead of text and I’m not here for it.

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      2 months ago

      +1 for the GIMP3 excitement, and ×1,000,000 for the YouTube gripe.

    • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      Depends on the context. We’re talking about an image editor, so showing a demo of the features in video form is helpful.

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      2 months ago

      For all the shortcomings of AI, and specially of Google’s Gemini model, its YouTube integration is really good for this, even more so on Android where you can set it as your default assistant and ask a question about the video you’re currently watching without having to switch apps.

      Asking for a bullet point list, it gave me this:

      • Nondestructive editing
      • Dynamic guides or smart guides
      • CMYK support
      • Outline text
      • Multi-layer features and layer sets
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          2 months ago

          Nope, layer effects were destructive, couldn’t go back and tweak a effect, had to make a copy of the layer every time before the change and apply it again.

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      2 months ago

      To be honest, complaining that “half of the information” is in a video form is so stupid. Stick to the written sources and be happy that the other half of the information is supplied the way you want it.

      Obviously there is a market for video content, and there is probably as many people liking it as disliking it. I am a dyslexictic person that can understand and remember way better when I am spoon fed the information instead of struggle through a long blog post or news site.

      Please be open minded that we are different.

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        1 month ago

        Video gets higher engagement. If you want your information to be consumed, video is a better bet.

        That will not stop every video from having a top comment complaining about it though.

        I prefer written content myself. But, as you say, I am happy for content in whatever form I can get it. I did not pay for it. How it is generated and shared is not up to me.

        Soon I hope, we will have a bot that transcribes every video. Then that can be the top comment instead of the endless complaining.