Thursday, February 01, 2007

The GIMP 2.3.14 - Open Source Image Editing App

The GIMP 2.3.14 (Windows, Open Source, 13.75MB) [download via FileForum] is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Recent changes:
  • Added actions to control brush spacing
  • Polished appearance of image window
  • Scale the brush's spacing when scaling the brush
  • Save tool presets when they are changed
  • Improved handling of vectors in the Python bindings
  • Allow for auto-cropping the result of the transform tools
  • Added GimpRatioEntry widget and use it in the rectangle tool options
  • Added functions to transform between preview and image coordinates
  • Added PDB functions to validate display, drawable, image and vectors IDs
  • Added HSL color model to Decompose and Compose plug-ins
  • Further improved status bar messages for tools
  • On systems with D-Bus build gimp-remote functionality into gimp executable
  • Bug fixes and code cleanup

The GIMP is what I currently use for editing photos and article images/logos. I would highly recommend this to anyone who needs to manipulate images using Windows.

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