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GIMP 2.6 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the pimp-your-pixels dept.

Enselic writes "The GIMP developers are proud to announce the release of GIMP 2.6. The release notes start with: 'GIMP 2.6 is an important release from a development point of view. It features changes to the user interface addressing some often received complaints, and a tentative integration of GEGL, the graph based image processing library that will eventually bring high bit-depth and non-destructive editing to GIMP.' The notes go on to say the toolbox menubar has been removed, the toolbox and docks now are utility windows, it's now possible to pan beyond the image border, the freehand select tool has been enhanced to support polygonal selections, and much more."

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  1. Still no high colour depth? by Ed+Avis · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's not completely clear from the release notes: does this mean that the GIMP can now load and save images with 16 or 32 bits per colour channel, or is it still limited to 8-bit RGB despite the new GEGL engine under the hood?

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  2. The future of GIMP by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Let's be honest here. I like GIMP, I generally prefer it over photoshop (for what I do). But it's not photoshop and it gets shit on for that reason. The solution: GIMP should ditch GTK/GDK and use GNUStep/Cocoa. This provides a number of advantages - free CMYK and pantone support, better font rendering, an improved UI, and direct access to artistic types. Photoshop on OS X is a dog -- the look and feel doesn't match and Adobe won't provide a 64-bit version until CS 5 (if then). An OS X native GIMP would kick it's ass.

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  3. GEGL by blindd0t · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So now with GEGL worked into GIMP, how long will it be until we see something equivalent to Photoshop's Layer Groups? Is it already in this release? (I didn't see anything about it in the release notes.) Sometimes simple projects grow in size to the point where it'd be very convenient to be able to better organize layers in groups and sub-groups. I like GIMP, and it would be much more practical for me to use it more often with this feature.

  4. Re:Any chance we can draw circles and boxes now by Richard+W.M.+Jones · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Then you want Inkscape instead.

    No really I want GIMP to be able to do this.

    Example: Take a family photograph and circle somebody. Or add a cartoon speech bubble.

    These things should be single step operations from the main control pane.

    Rich.

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