GIMP 3.0 will now support loading DDS images with BC7 compression! Thanks to Jacob Boerema for his help and the image testing framework he developed to check for regressions.

(I didn't realize it until we closed the issue, but @prokoudine was the one who originally requested this support a few years ago!)

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/5411

Does anyone know where I could find good sample images for .pvr files? These are texture image files primarily used for SEGA Dreamcast games.

I'm working on an import/export plug-in in-between bugfixes for 3.0. I have a few samples, but more would be great - there's a lot of internal types like indexed and bumpmap PVRs.

In-progress work on adding non-destructive filter effect controls directly in the layer dialogue.

Unlike my prior videos, you now instantly see the change when clearing out the layer effects. It's also a bit more convenient to access (though UI/UX is still early).

The dev version of #GIMP now supports importing Adobe Color Book (.acb) palettes! This is how Adobe stores the various Pantone, Trumatch, Toyo, HKS, and other print color palettes.
The files can't be included in GIMP directly, but now if you have them you can load them in for use with the other CMYK features.
In the future I'd like to add support for CxF as well as some FOSS palette formats like .kpl, .soc, and Scribus .xml.

I thought I'd change things up a little - instead of implementing oddball image formats, I tried implementing a more popular palette format!
Just submitted a patch to let #GIMP users load Adobe Swatch Exchange palette files. The format is used to share palettes between various Adobe applications - perhaps soon they can share with GIMP too.😜

More of a UX change, but @GIMP now notifies you of unsupported features when importing PSDs! The goal of course is to make this list smaller, but until then users should be more aware of potential issues.

@zemarmot mentioned the UI could look better, so suggestions for further improvements are welcome!