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Thanks! Yes, I thought about it, although it would need some additional work as each in-built GIMP theme is structured to draw on common files, whereas mine are standalone. Totally possible though. Maybe when I have a complete set (Grey, Dark and Light), and if they’re popular, I’ll post something on the Gitlab and see what they say!

I think that’s totally fair enough.

Ah good old flatpak strikes again.

I’d forgotten that flatpak is a pain for this and I ended up manually working around it.

I’m thinking of adding the following to the download page:

“When installed via Flatpak, GIMP folders can be hard to find. I recommend creating your own folder for downloaded themes and adding it to GIMP: Create a new folder e.g ‘my-gimp-themes’ somewhere that makes sense to you and then place the unzipped PrintroomExpertSuperflat folder inside it. Then, in GIMP, go to Edit > Preferences > Folders > Themes, click the ‘Add a new folder’ button on the left and then the ‘Open a file selector…’ button on the right and select your my-gimp-themes folder. Finally, click the OK button. New themes will become avalable after restarting GIMP. All further theme downloads can be placed in the my-gimp-themes folder.”

Would you mind letting me know if that makes sense and works for you? Thanks!

Cool, let me know what you think - I’m open to feedback 👍

Yeah! The workarounds I had before were complicated and didn’t perform very well, so this is a major improvement.

I suspect that it will be easy for the GIMP team to make this a new layer type of its own and make it even simpler too.

I made a theme which is more professional-looking and less busy/cramped if you’re interested:

https://jpicture.net/printroomexpertsuperflat/

I’m about to release a dark version of it too.

The fact that this word needs explaining to 99% of the world’s population tells me that it’s not much of an issue.

I don’t work with HDR much, but have you tried setting it to 32bit linear floating-point?

I love how much simpler it is in this release to make independent effects/adjustment layers. You just make a group layer and set the mode to ‘Pass through’. Then the adjustments/effects/filters you put on it are a) applied to all layers below it b) fully non-destructive and c) can have their own mask.

The number of adjustments you can make non-destructively - and have full control over - makes GIMP 3.2 the most powerful non-destructive editor that I know of.

I’ve asked the same question in the past, and see it keep coming up. The lack of something centralised or coordinated for donations is a massive missed opportunity for FOSS.

This is exactly the sort of thing I think the FSF should take on. They are a nonprofit which exists to promote free software, and I think this should include the freedom to donate and receive funds. They are smart people and I’m sure they could figure out how to do it in an efficient way.

I use Libreoffice for all of my business admin, from invoices to pricing models. It’s fantastic software.

Have a look at Debian. If you set up Flatpak with Flathub (very easy) you can easily install all of the applications you’re likely to want with the GNOME Software GUI. Debian is a community distribution.

For jobs where you just want to make cuts check out ‘Lossless Cut’. It’s extremely simple and extremely fast.

GIMP is excellent software and I love using it. There are some great plugins coming out for the new GIMP 3 series too.

I had a similar thing. I started using Linux for privacy reasons and over the course of replacing all of the proprietary software I was using I fell in love with FOSS. Especially GIMP and other photography-related software.

That’s actually a really nice idea.

You can accomplish this with GIMP by removing all the UI panels (which it calls Dockable Dialogues) and tools from the toolbox, and then adding some of them back in. By default it starts off more complicated though, which I think is why a lot of people find it overwhelming to learn.

You’ve inspired me to do an experiment making a really simple and stripped back GIMP configuration. I can send you the config file if you want and you can let me now what you think.

Check out Shotwell. Its editing functionality sounds exactly like what you’re looking for, although it is designed for managing a library of images videos.

Nice light!

I haven’t used Krita much but found that the brushes were really nice to use.

GIMP is definitely a bit disorentating and complex if you’ve never used it before. After spending a couple of hours of proper study to get to grips with it though, the power and flexibility of it is awesome.