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GIMP 2.4 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bring-out-the-gimp dept.

Enselic writes "After almost three years since the release of GIMP 2.2, the GIMP developers have just announced the release of GIMP 2.4. The release notes speak of scalable bitmap brushes, redesigned rectangle/ellipse selection tools, redesigned crop tool, a new foreground selection tool, a new align tool, reorganized menu layouts, improved zoomed in/zoomed out image display quality, improved printing and color management support and a new perspective clone tool."

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  1. Why bother reading? by domatic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe 5 of the posts will have something actually illuminating. The rest of them will be GIMP and Photoshop fanbois going at each other. Let me save everybody the trouble.

    GIMP has an unprofessional name! Waaaaaaaaaaah!
    GIMP only does 8-bit color! Waaaaaaaaaaah!
    GIMP isn't UI identical to PhotoShop on every menu 3 levels deep! Waaaaaaaaaaaah!
    GIMP manages windows sucky! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

    Does not! Does too! Does not!.................

  2. Re:Most important thing by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But then there is this other group of people who will complain that GIMP is just being a PhotoShop wannabe and not innovating.

    Yeah, but it's already not innovating. It's just not innovating with a crappy UI, as opposed to not innovating with a good UI.

    BTW, a good UI doesn't (necessarily) mean Photoshop. Paint.NET for Windows has a pretty damned good UI, and it's not much like Photoshop at all.

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