GIMP 2.4 Released...

[scorpion007]

Wow, looks like they've done a pretty massive release.

Good on them :)

[L.Rawlins]

I think it would be very useful if tools such as 'Blender', 'Gimp', 'Inkscape' and 'Scribus' all kept one eye on each others development and interoperability, to encourage a more unified working environment between applications.

An open source equivalent of Creative Suite could then emerge from these individual softwares that would all operate visually and functionally in tandem.

To a lesser extent Scribus already keeps one eye on the progress of Inkscape, as does Gimp for .SVG. But jumping between one open source app. to the next with regard just these four is still a complete headache for beginners and advanced users alike.

It would be useful to settle on some GUI common ground I think, not least when Blender, Scribus and Gimp are all touting complete visual re-edits in the near(ish) future. Far easier to learn one interface than four, which is how the likes of Adobe's paid-for suite can still hold all the aces.

[Geta-Ve]

Incredible! Simply astounding. 'Grats to the devs and all who worked on this release. Will have to wait for the windows release, I just hope they have added better wacom support. :P

EDIT: I also agree with most everything Rawlings (above) said. But I doubt it will happen.

[Nightez]

I think it would be very useful if tools such as 'Blender', 'Gimp', 'Inkscape' and 'Scribus' all kept one eye on each others development and interoperability, to encourage a more unified working environment between applications.

An open source equivalent of Creative Suite could then emerge from these individual softwares that would all operate visually and functionally in tandem.

To a lesser extent Scribus already keeps one eye on the progress of Inkscape, as does Gimp for .SVG. But jumping between one open source app. to the next with regard just these four is still a complete headache for beginners and advanced users alike.

It would be useful to settle on some GUI common ground I think, not least when Blender, Scribus and Gimp are all touting complete visual re-edits in the near(ish) future. Far easier to learn one interface than four, which is how the likes of Adobe's paid-for suite can still hold all the aces.

Fully agreed that would help alot.

[Loy]

i'd love to see the tools of the GIMP in a Bledner-ish GUI, the windows and panels of the GIMP confuse me.

[inguatu]

may have to check it out.. tried Gimp before in XP but it was.. well... too gimpy compared to Pshop.

[LetterRip]

Hi,

we do 'keep an eye' on each other to some extent. There has even been talk of a 'open creative suite', but I don't expect anything happening in the near future.

LetterRip

[kursad_pileksuz]

Is it 16 bit now? Seriously if any package claims to be serious needs to support 16 bit formats including editing of them. I have used gimp for sometime but in previous versions that was an obstacle.

[garphik]

Awesome stuff !
much awaited update :thumbsup:

[Szos]

I think it would be very useful if tools such as 'Blender', 'Gimp', 'Inkscape' and 'Scribus' all kept one eye on each others development and interoperability, to encourage a more unified working environment between applications.

An open source equivalent of Creative Suite could then emerge from these individual softwares that would all operate visually and functionally in tandem.

To a lesser extent Scribus already keeps one eye on the progress of Inkscape, as does Gimp for .SVG. But jumping between one open source app. to the next with regard just these four is still a complete headache for beginners and advanced users alike.

It would be useful to settle on some GUI common ground I think, not least when Blender, Scribus and Gimp are all touting complete visual re-edits in the near(ish) future. Far easier to learn one interface than four, which is how the likes of Adobe's paid-for suite can still hold all the aces.

Fully agree with this. One thing that attracts people to non-open applications like Photoshop is because (for the most part) there is a consistant user-interface between Photoshop and Illustrator, or Word and Excel, etc.

I had given GIMP a chance years ago and some inconsistancies within the UI totaly turned me off on it. However this does indeed seem like a cool update - would be willing to give it another shot.

One thing I have always wanted to see is Adobe to merge Photoshop with Illustrator and even Image Ready and Flash into one vector/raster/animation/web graphic application.
Wonder if GIMP would offer such functionality??

[L.Rawlins]

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GNU Image Manipulation Program
2.4 Stable Branch
------------------------------

This is the stable branch of GIMP. No new features are being added
here, just bug-fixes.


Changes in GIMP 2.4.1
=====================

- fixed a minor display rendering problem
- improved the workaround for broken graphics card drivers (bug #421466)
- fixed a crash with broken scripts and plug-ins (bug #490055)
- fixed potential syntax error in configure script (bug #490068)
- fixed parsing of floating point numbers in Script-Fu (bug #490198)
- fixed potential crash when converting an indexed image to RGB (bug #490048)
- update the histogram while doing color corrections (bug #490182)
- fixed another crash with broken plug-ins (bug #490617)
- fixed problems on Win32 when GIMP is installed into a non-ASCII path
- fixed handling of truncated ASCII PNM files (bug #490827)
- make sure that there's always a cursor, even for small brushes (bug #491272)
- fixed line-drawing with a tablet and the Shift key (bug #164240)
- added code to use the system monitor profile on OS X (bug #488170)
- show changes to the rounded corners in the Rectangle Select tool (bug #418284)
- reduced rounding errors in the display render routines (bug #490785)
- translation updates (ca, de, et, lt, mk, pa, sv)

Downloads (http://gimp.org/downloads/) ('2.4.1' may not be available to download as a user friendly Windows '.exe' installation straight away. Give it a week.)

[SalvadorRuizJr]

Curious... Is there a program like this for Mac? I know they have some way of getting it installed, but it's overly complicated (for me at least).

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