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Gimp Hits 2.0

jf writes "Gimp 2.0 released! From gimp.org: "This release is a major event, marking the end of a three year development cycle by a group of volunteers and enthusiasts who have made this the most professional release of the GIMP ever. It is the first stable release that is officially supported not only on Unix-based operating systems, but also on Microsoft Windows and Macintosh OS X." Get it from ftp.gimp.org or from the mirror sites."

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  1. Newsforge Article by amigoro · · Score: 4, Informative
    Here is the Newsforge Article about the new GIMP that appeared a couple of weeks ago.

    The screenshots look simply awsome.

    Going to install that now.

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  2. Since the mirror list will be slashdotted... by Troy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is a formatting-free, cut-and-paste, hack job.

    mmmmm.....karma...

    Africa
    ftp://ftp.is.co.za/applications/gimp/
    Australia
    ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gimp/
    http://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gimp/ (web access)
    ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gimp/
    http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gimp/ (web access)
    ftp://gimp.zeta.org.au/
    Austria
    ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/graphics/gimp/
    Denmark
    ftp://ftp.jaquet.dk/pub/gimp/
    Finland
    ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/graphics/packages/gimp/
    France
    ftp://ftp.minet.net/pub/gimp/
    http://ftp.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/gimp/ (web access)
    Germany
    ftp://ftp.fh-heilbronn.de/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org /
    ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/grafik/gimp/
    http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/grafik/gimp/ (web access)
    Greece
    ftp://sunsite.ics.forth.gr/sunsite/pub/gimp/
    Irel and
    ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/
    http://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/ (web access)
    Japan
    ftp://SunSITE.sut.ac.jp/pub/archives/packages/gimp /
    ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/graphics/tools/gimp/
    ftp://ftp.ring.gr.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/
    http://www.ring.gr.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/ (web access)
    http://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/gimp/ (web access)
    ftp://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/gimp/
    Korea
    ftp://ftp.kreonet.re.kr/pub/tools/X11/ftp.gimp.org /
    Netherlands
    ftp://gnu.kookel.org/pub/gimp/
    http://gnu.kookel.org/ftp/gimp/ (web access)
    ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/software/gimp/gimp/
    http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/software/gimp/gimp/ (web access)
    Norway
    ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/gimp/
    Poland
    ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/Linux/gimp/
    ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/graphics/gimp/
    Roman ia
    ftp://ftp.kappa.ro/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/
    ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/
    http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/ (web access)
    Russia
    ftp://ftp.sai.msu.su/pub/unix/graphics/gimp/mirror /
    http://gimp.tsuren.net/mirror/gimp/ (web access)
    Spain
    http://sunsite.rediris.es/mirror/gimp/ (web access)
    ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/gimp/
    Sweden
    ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gimp/
    ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/gnu/gimp/
    http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/gnu/gimp/ (web access)
    Turkey
    ftp://ftp.hun.edu.tr/pub/linux/gimp/
    United Kingdom
    ftp://ftp.flirble.org/pub/X/gimp/gimp/
    ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gi mp/
    United States
    ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/gimp/

  3. Re:Gentoo by S.+Traaken · · Score: 5, Informative

    mkdir -p /etc/portage && echo '=media-gfx/gimp*' >> /etc/portage/package.unmask

    and never edit profiles/package.mask again.

  4. Re:What about simple drawing functionality ? by FooAtWFU · · Score: 4, Informative

    You could always draw straight lines with a minimum of trouble.

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  5. Installer for Windows by yivi · · Score: 5, Informative
  6. Re:What about simple drawing functionality ? by prockcore · · Score: 4, Informative

    is it, at last, possible to simply draw lines or arcs ? It is pretty useful, so why do they snub such functionalities ?

    This has always been possible. To draw a line, select a paintbrush or a pencil. Click on the start of the line, shift-click on the end of the line.

    To draw a circle, use the circle selection tool, and then go to edit->stroke. To draw an arc, just draw the circle on a new layer, and erase the part you don't want.

  7. Re:Photoshop! by gilesjuk · · Score: 4, Informative

    CinePaint (formerly known as FilmGimp) has been used in quite a few well known films and was forked from Gimp 1.x.

    Link to CinePaint

  8. Re:EXIF. by mrgreen4242 · · Score: 5, Informative
    According to page 7 of this release document,

    Data stored in EXIF tags by digital cameras are now handled in read and write mode for JPEG files.

  9. Re:Windows? by Chupa · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here are windows binaries in a nice installer. 2.0pre4 is the newest release available at the moment, but it is working fine for me right now.

  10. Gimp for Windows (version 2.0pre4) by lent · · Score: 4, Informative
    From: http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/development.ht ml
    GIMP for Windows
    FAQ | Stable version | Development version | Source code | ] Installers for GIMP for Windows Development version download

    This is the development version of The Gimp. It will open a console (MS-DOS) window when it's run to display debugging messages. Do not close this window.

    It is highly recommended to update GTK2 to the newest version before installing Gimp 2.0pre4, as some bugs have been fixed since the last release.

    Note: The Gimp binary available from this page was compiled for Pentium MMX or better CPUs.

    GTK+ 2 for Windows (version 2.2.4-20040124) 3619 kB GTK+ 2 runtime environment. This package is required by The Gimp 2.0.
    MirrorFTPHTTPProvided by ftp.arnes.si Download - Academic and research network Of Slovenia ftp.flamingtext.com Download - FlamingText --> files.akl.lt Download Download Atviras kodas Lietuvai ftp.freenet.de Download Download freenet.de --> The Gimp for Windows (version 2.0pre4) 6807 kB Gimp 2.0pre4 for Windows.
    MirrorFTPHTTPProvided by ftp.arnes.si Download - Academic and research network Of Slovenia ftp.flamingtext.com Download - FlamingText * --> files.akl.lt Download Download Atviras kodas Lietuvai ftp.freenet.de Download Download freenet.de --> Additional plug-ins for The Gimp 742 kB This package contains Gimp-FreeType (CVS 20040202) and Gimp Animation Package (1.3.25) plug-ins for Gimp 2.0pre2.
    Warning: both these plug-ins are considered unstable.
    Note: Due to a problem with the GTK+ installer, the FreeType plug-in will not work, unless you copy the file freetype-6.dll to freetype6.dll in C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\bin\ folder.
    MirrorFTPHTTPProvided by ftp.arnes.si Download - Academic and research network Of Slovenia -->

    If you wish to compile plug-ins for use with this Gimp version, you can get the development files here.

    Development version download This is the development v

  11. Re:isn't this what bittorrent was created for? by lart2150 · · Score: 5, Informative

    ya and that's why I made a torrent :-) now let's watch my tracker/web server die http://engert.us/gimp-2.0.0.tar.bz2.torrent

  12. Re:Sweet! by Deusy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Now maybe I can figure out how to use the thing.

    It's not difficult - you can find some good tutorials at gug.sunsite.dk.

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  13. Re:Fantastic! by DVega · · Score: 4, Informative
    "Photoshop also supports color management through and through- GIMP never has out of the box and never will, because there's no such thing as color management under linux; it's not builtin to X, there are zero calibration devices for linux, etc. Even gamma is something of a mess under Linux."

    You mean color managemnt like this ?

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  14. web designers...siiigh. by SuperBanana · · Score: 4, Informative
    Um, I'm a web designer. How is that invaluable?

    You're wasting your time when you could be doing more productive things which would help you create your websites more quickly instead of worrying about 1k or so in a jpeg

    Variable compression(controlled by a mask) allows you to crank up the compression on low detail areas and use much finer compression at important parts, such as the edges of UI elements where compression artifacts would be noticed immediately. It can yield enormous savings, much greater than 1kB, and solves the #1 problem with JPEG- it's not dynamic and does NOT handle edges well.

    Furthermore, even 1kB can have substantial cost savings for a client. If they get 1 million hits a day, they most certainly care about 1kB, because that's roughly $2-3/day in bandwidth charges. That's a thousand bucks a year, which pays for a whole lot of time for a graphics designer to squeek every last kilobyte out of an entire site's worth of images. Why do you think people install mod_gzip on servers to compress HTML? Why do you think many sites strip down the headers Apache sends in requests?

    It's ok, we have broadband (or 56k modems at the very worst).

    a)most people do NOT have broadband, b)56k modems typically get around 33.6kbps at best(22kbps is not uncommon for some folks out in the middle of nowhere), which works out to around 4.2kB/sec. If I knock 5kB off an image, you'll see it a second faster.

  15. Re:Windows? by 13Echo · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can just hit "Prt Scr" (Print Screen) and paste it into GIMP as a new image.

  16. Re:Excellent by lunartech · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've been using the beta version of 2.0 for a few weeks now and I think the user interface is a vast improvement. I've used The Gimp on a regular basis previously because it's great for the majority of graphics stuff. But I used to get a bit sick of right-clicking the image to get a menu in the old version. Simply adding a menu bar above the image has made a huge difference for me, not to mention the new docking features to reduce onscreen clutter etc. Top work guys !

  17. Re:Windows? by houseofmore · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dear no... I would never suggest a windows user compile anything!!!

    http://www.gimp.org/windows/

    "This site, www.gimp.org, only distributes the source code to the GIMP (the building blocks). You can however download executable versions from the following sites:

    Jernej Simoncic provides an installer program that automates the installation process. This is the most convenient way to install the GIMP for Windows.


    http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/

  18. Click and learn how to use gimp... by lent · · Score: 4, Informative
    OK, click and learn :-)

    Note: Number 9 below is especially cool if you have an investment in Photoshop-plugins.

    From:http://members.home.nl/m.weisbeek/gimp/

    Annoyances about The GIMP

    While The GIMP is such a powerful application, doesn't it have any drawbacks ?!? - Oh, yes, it has...

    I [Martijn Weisbeek] am writing this article just to show you some of these. I hope that it will make you're life with The GIMP more easy. This article is the result of about one year of experience with using the Windows-version of The GIMP (almost on a daily basis). Just remember that The GIMP clearly focuses on functionality (which is good) instead of user-friendlyness. Therefore some things just aren't that obvious, just until you get the hang of it... So just take your time to read through this article and you'll make yourself an immediate GIMP-crack.

    [...snip...]

    For your convenience I created a list with pointers to the items in this article:

    1. How do I edit an image ?

    2. I hate going through this rightclick-menu each time !!!

    3. Doesn't The GIMP support GIF's ?!?

    4. Lots of GIMP-functions do not seem to be available !!!

    5. But how do I know on what type of image a plugin works ?

    6. How do I make parts of the image transparent ?

    7. How do I remove the Alpha-channel (transparency-information) afterwards ?

    8. How do I change the size of my image ?

    9. Extend The GIMP's functionality with Photoshop-plugins

    [...snip...]