finally
Sometimes good things take a little longer. Version 2.4 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program is finally out. Please check the release notes for details. Now we are going to celebrate the release. And...
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We are still discussing the roadmap for GIMP 2.6, but we have branched directly after the 2.4.1 release and the first new feature landed in trunk: The Screenshot plug-in can now capture an image of the...
View Articlefirst bling
Started to play a bit with Cairo drawing in GIMP last night. It’s fun and while most changes didn’t have any visible effect, there’s a subtle change visible in the Layers dialog. Can you spot the...
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Two weeks ago I have been interviewed by Tim about GIMP. We talked for two hours, about the 2.4 release, history of GIMP, current development and our plans for the future. If you understand German and...
View Articleimproving the render performance
For GIMP 2.4 we dramatically improved the quality of the zoomed-out display. Much of this change was based on the introduction of a tile pyramid for the image projection. From a performance point of...
View Articlewaste more trees
In an effort to help people to waste more trees, I’ve spent some time lately to improve the GIMP Print plug-in. The main reason for starting with this is bug #480086. We’ve got lots of reports from...
View Articleonline help for gimp 2.6
One of the new features for GIMP 2.6, that I have been working on lately, is support for reading the user manual online. So far the user experience with the GIMP help system has sometimes been somewhat...
View Articlewebkit rules
For GIMP 2.6, we ported the GIMP help browser to WebKit. Works a lot better than the old version that was using gtkhtml2. The main advantage is probably that it works for online help. But WebKit has...
View Articlecall for translators
We are closing in on the GIMP 2.6 release and still the translation status looks rather bad. It would be nice if we could ship GIMP 2.6 with lots of complete translations. So here’s your chance to...
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