Retouch and restore digital images, create your own artwork, logos, icons or other design elements and even performed scripted image manipulations C#, C++, Python, Perl or Scheme.
GIMP 2.6 is a versatile and free to use graphics manipulation program. With GIMP you are capable of make professional logos and buttons in just a few minutes among other features. Like Photoshop and other design applications, it uses a large number of dialogs. Its customizable interface, makes you comfortable since startup. The interface is modularized into docks, allowing you to stack them into tabs or keep them open in their own window. You can make a lot of photo enhancement effects in digital photos. Like fix perspective distortion caused by lens tilt choosing the corrective, eliminate lens' barrel distortion, or make digital retouching techniques. You can clone objects with the perspective clone tool, just as easily as with the orthogonal clone. GIMP is not a design suite, it hasn't so many features as Photoshop, but if you can't spend hundreds of dollars in software licenses, or your work doesn't require complex task, consider add this package to your toolset. Forum has a lot of tips and many questions resolved. So if you are stuck, you can find help pretty fast.
v2.1 [Feb 24, 2010]
- Discard fonts which fail to load and popup an info dialog to allow people debug their fonts.
- New API to suppress updates in UI until plug-ins are done introducing changes.
- New API to calculate histograms in separate threads, with possible further extension to handle similar cases elsewhere in GIMP.
- Tool options are now properly saved and reloaded per-device at startup.
- New plug-in for importing and exporting HEIF images.
- Enable visibility of rasterized vector layer from PSD.
- Single-window screenshots in Windows fixed to correctly snap a window even when it is partly off-screen or covered by another window or when display scaling is not set to 100%.
- New Spherize filter to wrap an image around a spherical cap
- New Recursive Transform filter to create Droste effect.
- Warn users, when alpha-only painting has no effect. E.g. when target drawable doesn't have an alpha channel, or the alpha channel is locked.
- Make the splash texts dynamic, so they are larger on larger splashes.
- Mention pressing Enter to complete Foreground selection in the status bar.
- Make sure that clicking outside any selection prevents Rectangle Select and Ellipse Select tools from creating empty selections.
- Improve mouse wheel zooming behavior to keep the same point centered under the pointer even if the image is completely visible in the canvas.
- Add "View -> Center Image in Window" (Shift+J) as a quick way to center the image at any zoom level.
- Updated translations: Catalan, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian.
- New translation of Windows installer: Chinese (Taiwan)
- Add a --with-bug-report-url configure option allowing packagers to set the address of their own bug tracker. This address will be the one opened by the debug dialog for reporting bugs.
- Add a flatpak manifest for the gtk3-port branch.
- Remove the possibility to disable script-fu.
- Add a --with-icc-directory configure option to customize the color profile directory. By default, it is set to the common path /usr/share/color/icc.
- Updating the description of the XCF format "devel-docs/xcf.txt", for third-party readers wishing to support GIMP 2.10 XCF files.
- Add documentation skeletons for all enums in libgimpbase/, there is much room for improvement.
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