mastodon 4.7.3This is the official Mastodon account of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).
GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes.
Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done.
Today we released GIMP 3.2 with major new features, including vector layers, link layers (smart objects), DDS BC7 export, better PSD import including PSB for large images, MyPaint 2.0 brushes, and much more!
https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/03/14/gimp-3-2-released/
#GIMP #imageEditor #GPL #openSource #libreGraphics #GIMP3 #GIMP3_2 #GEGL #news #release
https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/03/28/gimp-3-2-2-released/
Bugfix release!. Drop shadows, vector layers, image import, more..., + some UX enhancements and a new mirror in Japan.
Over two million downloads of GIMP 3.2 so many new issues are reported for the first time. Thank you all who worked on GIMP & thank you all who reported problems on gitlab and provided much-needed feedback, & most of all thank you to our many users!
#GIMP #imageEditor #GPL #openSource #libreGraphics #GIMP3 #GIMP3_2 #GEGL #news #release
Numbers for the fun ("known numbers" only) about #GIMP 3.2.0:
* Released on March 14.
* Windows installer already downloaded over a million times.
* Installed about 50k times from the MS Store (last data on 21st of March, so in fact more).
* macOS DMGs downloaded more than 150,000 times.
* We estimate around 300,000 active users on Flathub (based on new download and updates stats).
* The Snap Store tells us we have more than 359,000 active devices of the Snap.
https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/04/01/new-color-mode-coming-to-gimp/
New Color Mode Coming to GIMP
#GIMP #imageEditor #GPL #openSource #libreGraphics #GIMP3 #GIMP3_2 #GEGL #EGAgraphics
Thanks to Yamagata University, Japan, for sponsoring our second download mirror in #Japan! 🤗
Our #community of contributors is awesome! From developers to translators, but also mirror sponsors, testers, documenters, donators… It is all thanks to you that GIMP exists!
For any other org wishing to contribute a mirror: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/gimp-web/-/issues/new?description_template=New_Mirror
Congratulations, @Krita@mastodon.art on releasing 5.3.9 and 6.0.0 !
Sketches of all the speakers at #libregraphicsmeeting 2026 by @tomsart@mastodon.social ! 😍👨🎨
GIMP will have a presence at https://linuxappsummit.org/ next week - @LAS@floss.social
Who else is going to be there?
Our project, #GIMP, believes in the community, sharing and collaborating to make a great creative ecosystem together.
This is also why we have sponsored #LGM many times across the years.
We would like to encourage other creative FLOSS projects to sponsor LGM, if you can afford it! This call obviously also extends to any corporation using Free Software! 🤗
https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/04/10/gimp-lgm-2026/
Libre Graphics Meeting is coming soon, in Nürnberg (Nuremberg), Germany. Born out of GIMP Con years ago, with the idea of getting developers & users of free creative software together.
The GIMP team will be there and active.
#GIMP #GIMP3 #libreSoftware #LibreGraphicsMeeting #LGM #devmeet #opensource #FreeSoftware #rewire #GimpTeam #artistsMeetup #gratuitousHashTag
Soldering workshop in progress by @nomis@chaos.social at @lgm@post.lurk.org.
So it's kind of the fan-mail 💌 week! We received a second fan letter today! Despite not having any personal info in-text this time, we still decided we should not publish any scan without explicit permission (even one's handwriting is a private data after all!).
Here is just some excerpt: "Thanks for all the GIMP FOSS! […] You all give hope for humanity! ❤️"
Quite the pressure, I guess! 🥰
Thanks all for all the love!
We have a talk scheduled next month for elected representatives of French local authorities (by Jehan, @zemarmot@fosstodon.org, #GIMP maintainer).
Lightning talk by @nomis@chaos.social at @lgm@post.lurk.org 2026.
Talk in progress by @pippin@mastodon.xyz (#GIMP contributor and #GEGL maintainer) about #ctx at @lgm@post.lurk.org in Nürnberg.
GIMP crashing on Ubuntu? Update again, to make sure libexiv2 and libgexiv are in sync.
Second talk by a #GIMP contributors at #LibreGraphicsMeeting: "GIMP: a Community, Free Software" by Jehan of @zemarmot@fosstodon.org: https://media.ccc.de/v/lgm-2026-110674-gimp-a-community-free-software
Remembering the good ol' Libre Graphics Magazine in a lightning talk by @ossington@mastodon.xyz at @lgm@post.lurk.org 2026.
Talk by Jehan of @zemarmot@fosstodon.org in 30 min, at 5:45 PM CET at #libregraphicsmeeting 2026.
Live streaming: https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2026/
Videos from #GIMP contributors at #LibreGraphicsMeeting are now live!
Talk "ctx vector desktop - rasterizing as late as possible" by @pippin@mastodon.xyz: https://media.ccc.de/v/lgm-2026-110663-ctx-vector-desktop-rasterizing-as-late-as-possible
Also @pippin@mastodon.xyz did a lightning talk today. It starts at 45:29 in this video: https://media.ccc.de/v/lgm-2026-110672-lightning-talk-thursday#t=2729
RE: @latenightlinux@mastodon.social
Commenting #GIMP download numbers at 21:58 in the podcast. 😄
