The world of FOSS has quite a few significant applications, but certainly one of the main ones is GIMP, the image retouching tool that gave rise to GTK libraries and with it to GNOME and to a very broad software core and fundamental base of free software as we know it today. Well, a few hours ago the release of GIMP 2.9.4, the first update of the year 2016 for this tool, it comes with a good amount of significant enhancements.
After about 8 months of hard work (remember that version 2.9.2 had been released back in November of last year) adds Major Advances in Image Color Management, in addition to improving the management of color profiles and bringing a new color picker tool. Other improvements include a DND widget, the ability to copy and paste layers between different images, higher rendering speed, a new option for 'Optimize' available both from the general menu and from the contextual menu of each image.
At the core of the application several options have been added in the menus, in addition to some related to image improvements (blending, image magic matching), and in the interface (GUI) we have worked on the status bar and in the dialogs (both in their design and in their general options ), although we can say the same of the windows (the change of full screen mode has been improved) and in GIMP preferences, where we now have many more possibilities (among them a very good one of using a customizable keyboard shortcut together with the mouse wheel to modify the size of the pencil or brush in real time).
Finally, to say that there are several aesthetic tweaks, in the use of themes or in the choice of application icons, and many changes and minor improvements that we can well find taking a look to the changelog (on GitHub). So now we can download GIMP 2.9.4 from there.
it is very good that you maintain and update gimp
Excuse my little knowledge, I have version 2.8.10, but I don't know how to update it, I appreciate help
Hello Ruben.
This is a development version, that is, it was not released for mass consumption. The latest stable version is 2.8.xx. To test 2.9, you would have to download the package and compile it yourself (it is quite easy to do, but it can take a long time), and use it together with the stable version (because this development version, when installed it does not replace 2.8 ).
Any questions ask here or send me an email. I'm also on Telegram: @RREDesigns.
Greetings and good luck. :)
For linux you have to add a new repository from the terminal.
1): sudo add-apt-repository ppa: otto-kesselgulasch / gimp-edge
2): sudo apt-get update and install
3): sudo apt-get install gimp gimp-gmic gmic
From Windows, the most practical thing is to download the portable version of: http://www.partha.com/ The good thing is that this laptop already comes with all the plugins installed.
The other page to download the latest version for windows is: http://nightly.darkrefraction.com/gimp/
Hello Ruben.
This is a development version, that is, it was not released for mass consumption. The latest stable version is 2.8.xx. To test 2.9, you would have to download the package and compile it yourself (it is quite easy to do, but it can take a long time), and use it together with the stable version (because this development version, when installed it does not replace 2.8 ).
Any questions ask here or send me an email. I am also on Telegram @RREDesigns.
Greetings and good luck. :)