Gimp 3.1.4: Second Development Release Towards Gimp 3.2

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The GIMP community released version 3.1.4, a development release towards GIMP 3.2, featuring new 'link layers' functionality, sparking discussion about the software's UI/UX and comparisons to other image editing tools.

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lorenzohess

4 months ago

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> Link layers allow you to link external image files as a layer in your project. For instance, you might add an SVG image file as a link layer, make changes to it in Inkscape, and see it instantly updated inside GIMP! You can also non-destructively scale and rotate the link layer without impacting the quality of the original image.

This is great

whateveracct

4 months ago

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Amazing! This is a feature I've wanted in every image editing program ever.

CharlesW

4 months ago

For some reason I thought this had been in Photoshop forever, but Linked Smart Objects were just introduced in 2014.

jokoon

4 months ago

I don't know why i can't like gimp

Maybe it suffers the same UI UX problem that blender had in the past?