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<_name>GNU Image Manipulation Program
<_summary>Create images and edit photographs
<_p>
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a
freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching,
image composition and image authoring.
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It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint
program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online
batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an
image format converter, etc.
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GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be
augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about
anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything
from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation
procedures to be easily scripted. GIMP is available for Linux,
Microsoft Windows and OS X.
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<_caption>Painting in GIMP
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<_caption>Photo editing in GIMP
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GIMP 2.10.4 includes a lot of bug fixes as well as various
optimizations. Most notable changes are:
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Straightening in Measurement tool: layers can be rotated using
the measurement line as horizon
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Fast startup: fonts loading is not blocking startup anymore
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Fonts Tagging with the same user interface as for brushes,
patterns, and gradients
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PSD support: a pre-composited version of a PSD image can be
imported
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Dashboard update: new "Memory" group and improved "Swap"
group showing various metrics
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This second release in the GIMP 2.10 series, so soon after
2.10.0, is mostly the usual bug-fixing version after a major
release, with a few dozen bugs fixed.
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It also features a new plug-in for the support of the HEIF
format, both for importing and exporting, as well as 2 new
filters: "Spherize" and "Recursive Transform". These are
nice examples of our relaxed feature policy in stable micro
releases.
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First release of the 2.10 series which prominently features
the port to a new image processing engine, GEGL.
The most outstanding changes are:
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High bit depth color processing (16/32-bit per color channel)
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Color management is a core feature now, most widgets
and preview areas are color-managed
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On-canvas effect preview, with split view for before/after
processing pixels
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Multi-threaded and hardware-accelerated rendering,
processing and painting
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Most tools improved, several new transformation tools
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Improved support for many image formats, in particular better
PSD importing
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Newly supported image formats: OpenEXR, RGBE, WebP, HGT…
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Improved digital painting: canvas rotation and
flipping, symmetry painting, MyPaint brushes…
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Metadata viewing and editing for Exif, XMP, IPTC, and DICOM
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Basic HiDPI support: automatically or user-selected icon size
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New themes for GIMP: Light, Gray, Dark, and System
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And much, much more…
<_p>For more information, see https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/04/27/gimp-2-10-0-released/
<_p>
In this second release candidate before GIMP 2.10.0, while
debugging is still a prime target, a new focus has been put on
speed and optimization in order to provide a smoother painting
experience. Bigger changes are:
<_li>Major core optimizations for painting and display,
including parallelized painting code.
<_li>Symmetries are now preserved in XCF files (saved as image
parasites).
<_li>"Light" and "Dark" themes rewritten from scratch to get
rid of various usability issues. "Lighter" and "Darker" themes
removed.
<_li> New GimpToolGyroscope on-canvas control, currently used
for the Panorama Projection filter. The widget provides
on-canvas interaction for 3D rotation (yaw, pitch, roll).
<_li>Plug-in debugging improved to output stack traces from
plug-ins with --stack-trace-mode command line option not only
on receiving signals but also on warnings and critical errors
when "fatal-warnings" debug key is set.
<_p>For more information, see https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/04/17/gimp-2-10-0-rc2-released/
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GIMP 2.10.0-RC1 is the first release candidate before GIMP
2.10.0 stable release, with a focus on debugging and stability.
Other than the many bug fixes, most notable improvements are:
<_li>New dashboard dockable to monitor GIMP resource usage
<_li>New debug dialog to produce back traces and other debug
data, encouraging to report bugs
<_li>Unsaved images can now be recovered after a crash
<_li>Layer masks on layer groups
<_li>JPEG 2000 support improved for high bit depth and various
color spaces
<_li>Screenshot and color picking improved on various platforms
<_li>Metadata defaults preferences now available
<_li>Various GUI polishing
<_p>For more information, see https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/03/26/gimp-2-10-0-rc1-released/
<_p>GIMP 2.9.8 introduces on-canvas gradient
editing and various enhancements while focusing on bugfixing
and stability.
<_li>On-canvas gradient editing
<_li>Notification when an image is over/underexposed
<_li>Better and faster color management
<_li>Support for color picker and screenshots in Wayland on KDE Plasma
<_li>Paste in place feature
<_li>Many usability improvements
<_li>Manual can be displayed in the user's preferred language
<_li>Improvements for the Wavelet Decompose filter
<_li>Improved compatibility with Photoshop .psd files
<_li>New support for password-protected PDF
<_li>New support for HGT format (Digital Elevation Model data)
<_p>For more information, see https://www.gimp.org/news/2017/12/12/gimp-2-9-8-released/