Inkscape launches version 1.4, with powerful new accessible and customizable features | Inkscape
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After months of waiting, we are finally ready to unbox the latest version of Inkscape... meet 1.4, the Geek edition, where accessibility and customization reign. Inkscape project developers, most of them volunteer contributors from countries around the world, have been plugging away behind the scenes on new features, improving current ones, bug fixes and setting the stage for the arrival of GTK 4.
  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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    1 month ago

    I recently did raster graphics editing in inkscape instead of GIMP, simply because GIMP is often pretty unusable. Worked out really fine!

    • psycotica0@lemmy.ca
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      1 month ago

      I think I may have contracted some kind of brain worm, because the other day I needed to do some photo manipulation and couldn’t get krita to do what I wanted, but I went into gimp and just knocked it out. I’ve hated gimp for years, but I guess I’ve used it enough that I’ve figured out how it works… and now I don’t hate it anymore…

      I think I may need help.

      Oh, but I always use it in single window mode ever since that came out. The multiple windows floating panel thing drove me nuts!

  • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    1 month ago

    The filter preview feature seems really nice!

    Honestly, Inkscape is at the very least almost as good as Illustrator - call me deluded but I find more intuitive in many cases.

    Now if only GIMP could actually have some money pumped into it and a sane UI… 😒

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      1 month ago

      gimp isn’t being held back by money, they have over a million in bitcoin just sitting there from an old donation that grew in value. In over a decade, no one has figured out how to pay the taxes on it if they start using it to fund developers.

      I read on reddit a long time ago that a UI designer tried to help improve gimp, but the devs were hostile to it (i may be remembering that wrong though). Considering how long its been with no UI improvements, I don’t think gimp will ever revamp its UI. Instead, I think Krita has a good chance of moving into photo editing with enough funding.

      • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Unfortunately, Krita’s main dev has long covid and in the last year they haven’t been working much…

  • Earth Walker@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Love Inkscape, using it for 15+ years.

    I sure hope they fixed the bug from the last version where it would crash if you had a drawing tablet plugged in while opening the app. That has been a huge nuisance for the last few months.

    Edit: They fixed it, god bless.