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Gimp 2.8 first release

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The first development snapshot of Gimp 2.8 is available: Gimp 2.7.0. There are a lot of nice, new upcoming features:
* a reworked, much more flexible text tool
* new saving/ export option
* export plugin for X11 mouse cursors and JPEG2000 file format
* rotation of brushes and additional enhancements to the brush dynamics engine
* tagging for resources
...and much more.
Check out the release notes too.

But there are much more interesting things we can await in Gimp 2.8:
* Finish merging of the GSoC 2006 vector layer stuff
* Merge the GSoC 2009 projects for brush dynamics and improved SIOX.
* Add a better set of default resoures
* Provide default tags for the default resources

Gimp 2.6.7 update

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I mentioned the upcoming Gimp 2.6.7 in my post about Gegl 0.1.0. Now it is available with a lot of bug fixes and updated translations too. All details about this update can be found at the release log. Deb packages for Ubuntu are available at GetDeb.net

GEGL 0.1.0 and Gimp 2.6.7

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The Generic Graphics Library GEGL is now available as version 0.1.0. All changes of GEGL can be found at the release post. GEGL is part of the core libraries of the image editor Gimp too.
A important hint of the developers is that GEGL 0.1.0 didn't work with Gimp 2.6.6, as they wrote "This is not because GEGL would be incompatible, but rather because of a stupid bug in the run-time version check.". So we all have to wait for Gimp 2.6.7 which will ship with some other bugfixes too smile

Gimp 2.6.6 update

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And another update to make GIMP 2.6 series fast and stable. All details about this update can be found at the release log. Get your Deb packages for Ubuntu at GetDeb.net - this time for Hardy too smile

Gimp 2.6.5 update

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Again another update to make GIMP fast and stable. Deb packages for Ubuntu can be found at GetDeb.net.

Filters, Filters, Filters

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For those that can't get enough filters for GIMP should check out G'MIC Toolbox, a GIMP plug-in which defines a set of various filters, including artistic filters, image denoising and enhancement, 3D renderers, etc.
A Deb package for Ubuntu is available too.

Gimp Updates

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During Xmas and New Years holidays several GIMP goodies showing up. So we have the GIMP 2.6.4 bugfix version, Gimp UFRaw 0.15 and Gutenprint 5.2.3. Deb packages for Ubuntu can be found at GetDeb.net.

Photoshop PSD support for Gnome

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Today i get a real amazing message from Jan Dudek. He started developing a PixBuf load for Photoshop PSD files for the Gnome Linux Desktop. That means PSD support for any Gnome application like the image viewer EOG, the document viewer Evince and in combination a thumbnailer for *.psd or *.pdd files for Nautilus too.

Read more...

Gimp 2.6.3 Update

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Gimp 2.6.3 is out now and includes again several bugfixes and translation updates. You can grab a Deb package at Getdeb.net.

Gimp optimizations

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I started to optimze/ modify my easyGIMPkit for Gimp 2.6. By studying the man page of the gimprc file (on a shell type in "man gimprc") i found two interesting options for optimizing Gimp:

(num-processors 1)
Sets how many processors GIMP should try to use simultaneously. May for a dualcore cpu use (num-processors 2) for a quadcore use (num-processors 4)

(toolbox-wilber no)
Disable the GIMP mascot "Wilber" at the top of the toolbox of Gimp 2.6 to save screen space.

This options can be setup at the configuration file "~/.gimp-2.6/gimprc".

BTW:The X11 Mouse Cursor plugin for Gimp is now available for Gimp 2.6 too. Grab a Deb package for Ubuntu here.

Gimp News

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As i announced Gimp 2.6.1 is now available for download(details at the release notes). Packages for Ubuntu can be grabed at GetDeb.net).
Besides that the Gimp User Manual reaches version 2.4.2 (but is still focused on the 2.4 branch of Gimp).
The script collections Gimp FX Foundry is now released for Gimp 2.6.x branch: "fixes any issues scripts ... and also corrects a lot of deprecated syntax".
The new ASE import plugin for Gimp allows you importing of color palettes created with Adobe Kuler.

Gimp 2.6.1 will be available soon

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Gimp 2.6.0 is new & fresh and the first bugfix release will arrive us soon. As Sven Neumann the maintainer wrote:
...probably on Wednesday
...couple of bug-fixes
...GIMP 2.7 and we can start to add new stuff
...define some goals for GIMP 2.8. A few items are...
- merge the successful GSoC projects
- attempt a port of the projection code (and perhaps more) to GEGL
- change tools to draw using the Cairo library
It seems we have a lively development smile That renembers me on going further with my webtools for Gimp.

Gimp 2.6.0 available

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Whoo-hoo, Gimp 2.6 hits the street! After it rumors it will available in July or September its now published in October. A year ago after a longer development phase Gimp 2.4.0 was available and the developers a much faster development cycle - it comes true!
At Gimpusers.com you will find a summery about what's new in Gimp 2.6 or check out the release notes (inludes a lot of screenies!).
UPDATE: Grab your Ubuntu Deb package at getdeb.net now.

Gimp 2.5.4

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The release of Gimp 2.6 is very close and so there are a bunch of new features added to the Gimp 2.5.x development version. The developers looking know for people helping to update the translations of GIMP.
UPDATE: You can grab some Deb archives for Ubuntu Hardy here (but be carefull it replaces Gimp 2.4.x): https://launchpad.net/~c-korn/+archive

New Gimp plugins

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At the Gimp Plugin Registry are two new plugins appeared:
X11 Mouse Cursor plug-in lets you import and export X11 mouse cursors and make it now very easy for creating your own cursor theme with Gimp. A Deb package for Ubuntu is available too.
Exif Viewer is an update of the old "Exif Browser" plugin to view the EXIF data of digital photos. I will try to compile it soon.

Gimp 2.6 in July?

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It rumors that the final of Gimp 2.6 will be available this month. I do not know the truth especially we hadn't a official announcement of 2.5.2 yet. At Gimpusers.com you will find a first summery about what's new in Gimp 2.6.

Gimp 2.5.2 developemnt

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When i looked around what happened in Gimp development i read that the first addition additions to Gimp 2.5.2 has been arrived. Sven Neumann posted in his blog a screeny of the Online Help feature too.

GREYCstoration 2.9 plugin for Gimp

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GREYCstoration is a Gimp plugin for image denoising and interpolation, using state-of-the-art image processing techniques. It offers really cool, denoised and sharp results of noisy and artifacted images (check out the demo images).
Just download the 2.9 zip archive from the website and copy the "GREYCstoration_gimp_pc_linux" file into "~/.gimp-2.4/plug-ins/". The filter can be found at the Gimp Image Window in "Filter > Enhance > GREYCstoration".

Gimp 2.5.1 developemnt release

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Some weeks ago i wrote a post about the beginning of Gimp 2.5.1, now this development version is official released. During that time again a lot of new features and improvement were added.

Gimp 2.4.6 update

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Besides the development of Gimp 2.6 a bugfix release of the Gimp 2.4 series is available. Gimp is a feature rich image editor with a functionality similar to Photoshop.
All changes of Gimp 2.4.6 are listed in the news file. Users of Ubuntu Linux can download a Deb package too.