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First Preview of GIMP 2.0 Ready for Testing

Posted by michael on from the my-precious dept.

molnarcs writes "The first preview of GIMP-2.0 is available. It can be installed side-by-side with GIMP 1.2 - so there is no need to uninstall 1.2 to test it. According to this README, some parts (gimp-perl and GAP) were removed from the main package, and will be released as separate modules. Use the mirrors listed on the homepage to download the source code. (Also available for FreeBSD via ports)." Apparently the GIMP is finally adding CYMK support, for those of you working in the print world.

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  1. Yes but.... by dustmote · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it allow me to copy money? I hear programs like this are in short supply. :)

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    1. Re:Yes but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      To copy money on Photoshop CS, its easy. Here is how to get around it.

      1. Open up image in ImageReady.
      2. Click import image to Photoshop
      3. Have funny money fun :D

      Adobe are stupid.

  2. Re:Including banknote detection ? by JanneM · · Score: 5, Funny

    Except this one is a little different:

    "Alert: a real $20 note is two steps darker than your attempt. Also, your serial number will not validate. Would you like me to apply corrections?"

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  3. Difficult to use or? by tindur · · Score: 5, Interesting
    A lot of people say Gimp is difficult to use. Is it difficult for people who are used to Photoshop or is it difficult for everybody?

    I haven't used image manipulation programs and would like to learn the basics. There are courses for Photoshop. Would it help me to take one of them?

    1. Re:Difficult to use or? by Mephisto_kur · · Score: 5, Interesting

      As someone who just recently started playing with this stuff, I can say that GIMP is much less intuitive than PS. That is the main problem. Since Photoshop is based on an MDI setup, and the standard menu style of most GUI apps out currently, it is leaps and bounds easier to just jump right into than GIMP.

      GIMP is a powerful program, I'll give it that. With the addition of CMYK you can expect some graphics folks that have been waiting to move to jump ship, but it still needs some serious work on the user interface before I expect it will become as main stream as PS or PSP.

  4. Ready for printing? Don't think so. by AnriL · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Having CMYK support is all fine and dandy but it won't get you far in the printing world without support for colour profiles and colour calibration. Linux sadly lags behind others (Windows, MacOS) in this area, and having Gimp support CMYK is like fitting racing wheels onto a horse and shoving it onto the Indycar track ...

    Mod away...

  5. They fixed the interface (mostly)! by ciaran_o_riordan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For anyone that hasn't tried it out, the interface is much improved. Great news since this is most peoples biggest gripe.

    toolboxes are now dockable with the main toolbox, so you just have one toolbox window, and a window for the image. Also, the image window has a menu bar now.

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  6. Re:Screenshots? by jeremymh · · Score: 5, Informative

    screenshot of the default setup running under gnome.

    The interface has some very nice improvements. Each tool window can be dragged around, to dock things together (see the tabs on the layers window? Behind that are paths, undo history etc)

    You don't have to right click on an image to do functions to the image, it has them up the top of that window, making it more friendly to new users.

  7. Re:The problem with gimp... by Boing · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The problem with gimp...is its User interface... What happened to the MDI model.

    Someone responded saying the problem has been partially solved in later versions of gimp, with "docking" ability. But I think Photoshop and its imitators have shown that a true MDI workspace is ideal for image editing.

    For the story of why MDI wasn't adopted earlier, read the following:
    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7379

    Putting my own personal bias into it, attitudes like Sven's (for example, an exerpt from a message on 2002-12-10 08:31: "WiW is evil! Why do you want to put a large window all over your screen that hides everything but your application? Because your desktop sucks? Then get a better one.") are what I see as the big imediment towards adoption of open source. If someone in a commercial project vocally complained that the customers of that project wanted dumb things and that their environments were inferior, he or she would be fired.

    I understand that these people have given freely of their time to improve GIMP, but they also claim to want widespread adoption of it; something that won't happen if they establish a mental wall between their personal agendas and the desires of other users.