GIMP 2.4 Released

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."

Comments

Re:Ask artists, not geeks

[moderatorrater]

just because Photoshop is the "industry leader" doesn't mean it's perfect - nor does it mean that the UI is perfect. But it does mean that it's the standard.

You can learn the [Gimp] UI inside and out in a day, even if you're really lazy/slow. I would disagree. I've learned the Photoshop UI in a couple of hours, the Fireworks UI in about one hour, and I've used Gimp for over 20 hours and still find the UI frustrating and stupid and completely ass-backwards.

Re:GIMP 2.3?

[jZnat]

Don't worry; only GNOME applications follow that version standard for the most part. The Linux kernel used to, but now they have their own crazy scheme which is stuck in 2.6.*. KDE, on the other hand, just does massive.major.minor releases.