Re: GIMP 3.0.0 Is Here!

On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:17:11 -0400, TJ wrote:

I'm a farmer, and I've been mistakenly using GIMP for years to prepare
planning maps that show what I want to plant where on my diversified
farm. They use a satellite photo as a base, with color-coded fields
drawn on it as overlaying layers, labeled with the size in acres.

Let me suggest looking at Inkscape. That does vector drawing, which is
resolution-independent, and is easier to modify.

I recently did something similar to what you’ve been doing (except a bit
simpler), drawing a diagram of a car accident I was in for an insurance
claim. The satellite photo was in a background layer, and I added various
annotation layers on top, including lines with different colours and dash
styles indicating the paths of the vehicles etc. Inkscape has some nice
design functions to let me get text blocks neatly aligned and distributed
etc.

And it’s all nondestructive. Which means I can change things (e.g. the
sizes and rotations of objects) without losing any image quality.

I use GIMP, too, when appropriate. The thing with Free software is, it
doesn’t cost you any extra to learn more than one tool.