Re: GIMP 3.0.0 Is Here!

TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> wrote at 17:32 this Monday (GMT):

On 2025-03-24 12:45, Farley Flud wrote:

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.
>

 
You would probably be better served with GIS (Geographic Information System)
software such as GRASS GIS for Linux:
 
https://grass.osgeo.org/download/linux/
 
GIMP is for basic image manipulation on plain old raster image formats.
Attempting to shoehorn such a program into GIS analysis is just asking
for problems.
 
 

I'll look into it, but at a glance it looks like it's far more elaborate
and feature-packed than I really need for my purposes. I've been using
The GIMP for this since 2006, so I pretty much know how to make it work
for me.
>
Assuming, of course, that GIMP 3.0 hasn't been changed so radically that
the UI is completely new. Even so, I don't expect my distro's stable
release to move away from 2.10 for a little while yet, so I should be
good for this year's cropping plans.
>
TJ

If it's Debian, then you won't have to worry about GIMP 3.0 for at least
another year!

I still enjoy Debian, but the outdatded pages is a bit annoying
sometimes.
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