Thursday, September 03, 2009

The GIMP 2.7.0 Beta – Free Open Source Image Editor

The GIMP 2.7.0 Beta (Windows, Open Source, 20.9MB) [alt DL] is a multiplatform photo manipulation tool. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction.

Also available for Linux.

Changes:

  • Change the Text Tool to perform text editing on-canvas
  • Add support for tagging GIMP resources such as brushes and allow filtering based on these tags
  • Separate the activies of saving an image and exporting it, there is now an 'File->Export...' for example
  • Port file plug-ins to new export API which gets rid of many annoying export dialogs
  • Add a simple parser to size entry widgets, images can be scaled to e.g. "50%" or "2 * 37px + 10in"
  • Arrange layer modes into more logical and useful groups
  • Added support for rotation of brushes
  • Make the Pointer dockable show information about selection position and size
  • Get rid of the Tools dockable and move toolbox configuration to Preferences
  • Add status bar feedback for keyboard changes to brush parameters
  • Add diagonal guides to the Crop Tool
  • New docks are created at the pointer position
  • Add support for printing crop marks for images
  • Move 'Text along path' from tool options to text context menu
  • Change default shortcuts for "Shrink Wrap" and "Fit in Window" to Ctrl+R and Ctrl+Shift+R respectively since the previous shortcuts are now used for the save+export feature
  • Make Alt+Click on layers in Layers dockable create a selection from the layer
  • Allow to specify written language in the Text Tool

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