Need to tweak a filter you applied hours ago? New in GIMP 3.0 is non-destructive editing for most commonly-used filters. See the changes in real time with on-canvas preview.
Exchange files with more applications, including BC7 DDS files as well as better PSD export and many new formats.
Don’t know how big to make your drawing? Simply set your paint tool to expand layers automatically as needed.
Making pro-quality text got easier, too. Style your text, apply outlines, shadows, bevels, and more, and you can still edit your text, change font and size, and even tweak the style settings.
Organizing your layers has become much easier with the ability to select multiple items at once, move them or transform them all together!
Color Management was again improved, as our long-term project to make GIMP an advanced image editor for all usages.
Updated graphical toolkit (GTK3) for modern desktop usage.
A little-known AI image generator called Reve Image 1.0 is trying to make a name in the text-to-image space, potentially outperforming established tools like Midjourney, Flux, and Ideogram. Users receive 100 free credits to test the service after signing up, with additional credits available at $5 for 500 generations—pretty cheap when compared to options like MidJourney or Ideogram, which start at $8 per month and can reach $120 per month, depending on the usage. It also offers 20 free generations per day.
AI changes the landscape of creation, focusing on the alienation of the creator from their creation and the challenges in maintaining meaning. The author presents two significant problems:
Loss of Connection with Creation:
AI-assisted creation diminishes the creator’s role in the decision-making process.
The resulting creation lacks the personal, intentional choices that contribute to meaningful expression.
AI is considered a tool that, when misused, turns creation into automated button-pushing, stripping away the purpose of human expression.
Difficulty in Assessing Authenticity:
It becomes challenging to distinguish between human and AI contributions within a creation.
AI-generated content lacks transparency regarding the intent behind specific choices or expressions.
The author asserts that AI-generated content often falls short in providing the depth and authenticity required for meaningful communication.
In color technology, color depth also known as bit depth, is either the number of bits used to indicate the color of a single pixel, OR the number of bits used for each color component of a single pixel.
When referring to a pixel, the concept can be defined as bits per pixel (bpp).
When referring to a color component, the concept can be defined as bits per component, bits per channel, bits per color (all three abbreviated bpc), and also bits per pixel component, bits per color channel or bits per sample (bps). Modern standards tend to use bits per component, but historical lower-depth systems used bits per pixel more often.
Color depth is only one aspect of color representation, expressing the precision with which the amount of each primary can be expressed; the other aspect is how broad a range of colors can be expressed (the gamut). The definition of both color precision and gamut is accomplished with a color encoding specification which assigns a digital code value to a location in a color space.
