Star GIMP 2.6.0 Released
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 1st Oct 2008 22:28 UTC
Graphics, User Interfaces The GIMP Project has released GIMP 2.6.0. Among some UI-based changes and additional fixes, it comes the long promised integration of the GEGL library. The promise of 16 bit per-pixel non-destructive editing goes back to 2002, but it's at last here. This means that GIMP is now ready for prosumer (and in some cases even professional) photographer's usage, and this can only be big news and a big win for the F/OSS movement. GEGL will also help in future releases with proper support of CMYK. UPDATE: I guess things are not as good as the release notes want us to think. GEGL was turned "on" in the Color menu as per instructions, but I still got a no-support message for high depth TIFF pictures. If GIMP can't read existing 16bpp pictures, the feature I earlier gave them so much credit for, is useless.
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RE: Great news!
by lemur2 on Wed 1st Oct 2008 23:48 UTC in reply to "Great news!"
lemur2
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The Gimp community seems on a roll. After their new website, which looks great, GEGL started growing, and now it's starting to be integrated into Gimp too. At the moment, I can't think of a freeware* picture editor, except for Paint.NET maybe, which can rival Gimp (actually, Gimp is better than Paint.NET for most tasks).


The one other contender would be Krita, wouldn't it?

http://www.koffice.org/krita/

With KOffice 2.0 (now in beta release) Krita 2.0 will gain significant capability, and also the ability to run on Windows.

It doesn't seem that far off to me, though I'm not really familiar with this application area.

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