GIMP 3.0.6: Free image editor update paves the way to making ditching Adobe even easier

[Redaktion]

GIMP, the free, open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop, has officially released its latest update, version 3.0.6, and despite being an iterative update mostly focussed on bug fixes ahead of 3.2, there are still a number of interesting changes and improvements.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/GIMP-3-0-6-Free-image-editor-update-paves-the-way-to-making-ditching-Adobe-even-easier.1132834.0.html

[Terror Byte]

I guess if you're old school and don't want things like AI masking, adaptive colours profiles, calibration, AI denoising, camera profiles, plugin support from the likes of DxO or Topaz, then sure Gimp is worth every cent.

[Worgarthe]

I guess if you're old school and don't want things like AI masking, adaptive colours profiles, calibration, AI denoising, camera profiles, plugin support from the likes of DxO or Topaz, then sure Gimp is worth every cent.

Many of those things can be done with GIMP, Terror (with plugins), but even then it's not worth it due to how slow it is. I have an i7 14700HX in one, and a base M4 in another laptop - GIMP is slower than a dead snail on both of them.

Perhaps I'm missing something obvious or the guys behind it are using quantum computers so they didn't notice any major performance issues, but GIMP for me for me, next to Photoshop and Affinity Photo V2 (which both absolutely fly with how nice and fast they are), is simply unusable. When using it I legit feel like I'm on a dual core Intel Atom from 2009 or something similar, it's plain terrible.

Didn't try 3.0.6 though but I doubt there is any difference than 3.0.x in general...