I love it! GIMP is one of those tools that's "almost" a photohop killer, not quite yet, but this is a big step in the right direction. Good job GIMP team!
As an asside, I think the plugin API and scheme joice is great and a blast to develope with I'd just like to see others jump on board.<p>EDIT: I thought I'd add this since there seems to be a large discussion below as to the type of user for which GIMP is applicable. I'm a software dev, in the past couple of years though mainly web apps where I've had to at times do graphics, for this GIMP worked fine for me (that's my pitch in the discussion). I think GIMP shines (as well as the traditional imagemagick) for batch processing, the scripting is easy, clean, fast - and lispy :)
Some links for those interested: <a href="http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/</a>
<a href="http://www.squidoo.com/gimp-how-to-write-a-script-fu-macro" rel="nofollow">http://www.squidoo.com/gimp-how-to-write-a-script-fu-macro</a>
So, is this an app that bundles it's own X11, or is it using a Quartz/Cocoa backend for GTK?<p>EDIT: I downloaded it, and the app bundle doesn't seem to have an X11, so that's nice. However, upon firing it up, it throws up a splash screen in front of all other applications. Who still thinks that's acceptable behavior on a multitasking operating system? Also, the app quits when the last window is closed, which isn't how OS X apps are supposed to behave.
This is a great move.<p>Serious question: how did this not happen 5 years ago? Is there some technical reason? It's so hard for me to understand why the creators wouldn't have always had this as the #1 feature improvement to make ASAP.
OT but is this an official signed application that can work with gatekeeper on 10.8? I recently discovered that my open source project won't work by default on osx 10.8 without me paying $99 to get an apple certificate, which I'm not very interested in doing.<p>What are open source/free projects supposed to do about gatekeeper?
Some day in the distant future perhaps there will actually be a non-photoshop 100% psd compatible editor. I thought I could just tell my designer to do File -> Export Layers as PNG, but that command in Photoshop is intentionally broken, churning for several minutes before producing even the first of many output files. In the meantime, while I like seeing how far Gimp has come, it just isn't an option for me.
I have to say, i'm impressed. One of the biggest reasons I never really used GIMP on OSX was that the X11 version never really felt right.<p>This version in comparison feels a lot better, though there are still a few annoying things about it, such as the image editing itself seems a bit laggy.<p>Still, a good step in the right direction IMO!
TIP:<p>I've been a long time GIMP for Mac OS X user (being a former laptop Linux users).<p>New GIMP crashed in me on the first run. It then hung on start up on the 2nd run.<p>I just deleted my old GIMP configuration directories and it started up fine:<p>rm -fr ~/Library/Application\ Support/Gimp/
There was some confusion about whether this release (which wasn't done by the "ordinary" Mac OS X package maintainer) meant that the role had been appointed to someone else: <a href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2012-August/msg00217.html" rel="nofollow">https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2012-Aug...</a>.<p>I hope that is getting resolved, it's always painful to see large projects like GIMP suffer from "people problems" and developers become disgruntled as a result.
Any thoughts on this new GIMP vis-a-vis Photoshop Elements?<p>I don't mind paying <$100 for a decent graphics editor. My primary use case is tweaking screenshots, app icons, buttons, and the like for my iOS apps and the web site. I want to get in and out as quick as possible, so I can get back to my other work.
Slightly off-topic (but I know very savvy people are here, so I can't help but ask):<p>Anyone knows where I could find a JPEG-2000 plug-in for GIMP that works on this Mac version, along with instructions on how to install it?
Is there a way to permanently dock the toolbar in the Mac version? I had this in the old version.... Now I get floating docks over top of other applications even when Gimp is in the background!
Why can't i move a selection within a layer? This has to be the most persistent problem in the mac version that hasn't been fixed. With every new GIMP version i curse this bug.
Does it have Retina display support? I'd download this in a heartbeat.<p>It's frustrating how long it is taken Adobe to update their software for Hi-DPI.