Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 1st Oct 2008 22:28 UTC
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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2006-01-16
The GIMP is awesome software. The developers can be very proud of their work.
While being a quite prominent open-source project, GIMP also always had a quite small developing community. This is mostly the work of people you can count with the fingers of one hand.
Given that, the achievements made with GIMP are even more impressive. I really hope they find more interested developers in the future.