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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."
Speaking as an author of WinImages, maybe you should give WinImages a try. Because the answer to both those questions would be quite extensive. Just as a teaser, non-destructive geometric layer modes including scaling, rotation, all manner of other things from skewing to water effects that may be stacked (in layers) over each other for real-time geometric interactions. Many more very useful layer blending options. Takes fewer mouse operations to do any kind of repeated image editing (like removing blemishes.) WinImages is a lot faster to start up, basically instantaneous on any reasonable machine today. It offers random access to multiple layers at once as well as the final, blended image. It can animate, or batch, almost any operation, including the area selections, over time or an image sequence. And play back the result for you in a filmstrip. It runs w/o copy protection or "DRM" of any kind from Windows 98 on up (and under Bootcamp and Parallels on a Mac), and there are no limitations on how many machines, or by how many users, or under what virtualization conditions, it may be used. It might even run under Linux's "wine", but I don't actually know either way. Free to try; and it isn't expensive. :-)
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Some folks are noble, some are whores. I know where you stand.
Isn't this world great that we can both stand here and bitch about the same stuff every time there's a GIMP story? It'd be something to celebrate, if it weren't so pathetically dorky.
In my opinion, moral responsibility ends at your actions. If Microsoft does wrong, then they are the ones doing wrong, not me by proxy.
That's just a lame excuse for not caring about the outcome of your actions, because such an outcome doesn't matter to you ultimately. By your reasoning, voting for fascists or giving money to terrorists is just fine because, "hey, you didn't move from your house, it's not like it's *you* killing those guys". There is no line dividing your actions from their outcome. Where is the boundary? At your brain, at your fingers, at the barrel of the gun you are holding?
It's fine that you don't care about Photoshop and Gimp and whatnot, it's not like everyone has the time to care about every single detail in life. But for some people, free software is a really big deal. So just let others care without bitching about it.
Back to the topic, you might want to know that actually most Gimp users don't give a crap about CMYK, because the main use for Gimp is a) graphic design and b) photographic edition that is printed from RGB files. In this sense, the colour calibration and proofing options are much more of a deal than CMYK. And, down the line, so it 16-bit color depth. Yes, including CMYK would expand the user base, so it's coming along. But it's not like people will ditch serious publishing-oriented software for the Gimp just like that, because it is more of an integrated workflow. Until (and if) it goes mainstream, Gimp will remain a freelance guy kind of tool. Press printing isn't really handled by freelancers.
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Hear hear. This is actually true of all FOSS in my opinion. I use a lot of it for things I don't really need that much (Inkscape is plenty good vector for when I need it; GIMP is plenty good raster, etc.). However, when I'm dealing with work-related things, there really are certain pieces of software I'm required to use. More than that, though. I'm not just using them because some mean boss or The Man told me to; I'm using them because they are the best tools for the job, all told. Sorry, but it's true.
I get accused of hating on FOSS 'round here all the time, but actually, I use lots of it and evangelize it to death at work. Just... not for anything critical.
Things like the GIMP, though, really make one's computing life easy and productive.
That's just fucking great. The one project that had a uniform, predictable, internally-consistent versioning scheme is now well on its way to becoming "Linux2 EE 2009 UR1p1".
The "cue the foo posts in 3, 2, 1..." posts will commence with no subsequent foo posts in 3, 2, 1...
If you're a professional, than the $600 price tag probably won't phase you . That's probably what you'd bill your clients for a days work. $600 is nothing. However, for the hobbyist and basic home user, GIMP probably does just about everything then need it to do, and is increasing in functionality all the time. It also comes with a price tag of $0. So while I think it's important for GIMP to strive to be as good as Photoshop, being not quite as good, but very good and free still makes it a very good tool.
The problem is that Photoshop Elements is under $100, and it's still better than GIMP for image editing. Or Paintshop Pro, for that matter. And doesn't Corel have something at that price point? Oh, and if you set the price point to $0, and own Windows, then Paint.NET is *still* better than GIMP at the same price.
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