Release Notes. Release Notes for GIMP 2.8. Introduction GIMP 2.8 is the result of three years of hard work and collaborative development.
This version of GIMP is equipped with a wealth of new features, including some highly requested ones. Keep reading to find out exactly what GIMP 2.8 has to offer you in areas such as the user interface, tools, and plug-ins. User Interface. Release Notes for the 2.7 development snapshots. This is an unstable development version of the GNU Image Manipulation Program.
Please realize that this is just a snapshot of the development tree. We are working hard towards GIMP 2.8, the next stable release. GIMP 2.7 is in no way a final product. A lot of new features are incomplete and some things may even be completely broken. GIMP 2.6 Release Notes. Introduction GIMP 2.6 is an important release from a development point of view.
It features changes to the user interface addressing some often received complaints, and a tentative integration of GEGL, the graph based image processing library that will eventually bring high bit-depth and non-destructive editing to GIMP. User Interface Toolbox Menubar Removed The toolbox menubar has been removed and merged with the image window menubar. Toolbox and Docks are Utility windows With the empty image window acting as a natural main window, the default window hints for the Toolbox and Docks have been changed to Utility window.
Ability to Pan Beyond Image Border. Release Notes for the 2.5 development snapshots. This is an unstable development version of the GNU Image Manipulation Program.
Please realize that this is just a snapshot of the development tree. GIMP 2.4 Release Notes. General Improvements Refreshed Look A whole new default icon theme has been created for 2.4.
The icons comply with the Tango style guidelines so GIMP doesn't feel out of place on any of the supported platforms. Regardless of whether you run GIMP under Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X or GNU/Linux (GNOME, KDE or Xfce), GIMP provides a polished, consistent look. GIMP 2.3.3. The new development release 2.3.3 of the free image manipulation software GIMP now contains a preliminary version of a new selection tool called SIOX.
Until now, creating a selection mask for an object was mostly equivalent to either a slow step-by-step approximation to a certain shape or a tedious manual drawing of the selection. SIOX ("Simple Interactive Object eXtraction") allows a semi-automatic pixel-accurate selection of typical foreground objects like portraits of humans, animals, or plants with only a few mouse clicks. Release Notes for the 2.3 development snapshots.
This is an unstable development version of the GNU Image Manipulation Program.
Please realize that this is just a snapshot of the development tree. We are about halfway up the hill to GIMP 2.4, the next stable release. GIMP 2.3 is in no way a final product. A lot of new features are incomplete and some things may even be completely broken. GIMP 2.2 Release Notes. The GIMP developers are proud to release version 2.2 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program.
About nine months after version 2.0 hit the road, we have completed another development cycle and can bring a new stable GIMP to our users' desktops. About GIMP The GNU Image Manipulation Program is ideal for amateur photographers, web designers, and many other people who want to create and edit digital images. Screenshots. The GNU Image Manipulation Program. GIMP User FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions. This FAQ is still a work in progress.
Some sections are very outdated, other sections should probably be removed, and some new questions and answers should be added. Please contact us if you can improve it. General Information What is this GIMP? The “GNU Image Manipulation Program” (originally the General Image Manipulation Program) sired by Spencer Kimball & Peter Mattis. In their own words, “GIMP is our answer to the current lack of free (or at least reasonably priced) image manipulation software for GNU/Linux and UNIX in general.”
It is a raster editor, which means that it performs operations directly on the pixels that make up the image, and not a vector editor. Where do I get it? Documentation. GNU Image Manipulation Program Skip to page contents [ News | Screenshots | Features | Downloads | Documentation | Get Involved ][ Plug-in Registry | GIMP Development ] [ Donations ] [ Documentation.
GIMP User Manual - GNU Image Manipulation Program. GNU Image Manipulation Program. GNU Image Manipulation Program. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Untitled. Tutorials. Beginner GIMP Quickies Use GIMP for simple graphics needs without having to learn advanced image manipulation methods. Simple Floating Logo This tutorial walks through some basic image and layer manipulation techniques.
Layer Masks An introduction to using layer masks to modify the opacity of a layer. Basic Color Curves A first look at the Curves tool and adjusting color tones in an image. Photo Editing Digital B&W Conversion Detailed conversion tutorial for generating a B&W result from a color image. Luminosity Masks Using multiple layer masks to isolate specific tones in your image for editing. Tone Mapping with ‘Colors/Exposure’ Using high bit depth GIMP’s ‘Colors/Exposure’ operation to add exposure compensation to shadows and midtones while retaining highlight details. Programming Basic GIMP Perl Learn how to write simple perl scripts using the gimp-perl module (GNU/Linux users only).
Beginner. GNU Image Manipulation Program Skip to page contents [ News | Screenshots | Features | Downloads | Documentation | Get Involved ][ Plug-in Registry | GIMP Development ] [ Donations ] [ Intermediate. Intermediate. Expert. Expert. GNU Image Manipulation Program Skip to page contents [ News | Screenshots | Features | Downloads | Documentation | Get Involved ][ Plug-in Registry | GIMP Development ] [ Donations ] [ Tutorials. Photo Editing. Photo Editing. Web. Web. Script Authoring. Script Authoring. Books about GIMP. Configuration - How To Set Your Tile Cache. Quick summary for those who do not want to read all this: if your system has good swapping behavior (like most GNU/Linux systems) and if you have enough virtual memory (swap), then set the tile cache size as high as possible. If not, then set it to about 80% of the available RAM on your system.
If you are not satisfied with this quick advice, then keep on reading... Configuration - Fonts in GIMP. Configuration - Controlling GIMP with MIDI devices. What? Since version 2.2, GIMP comes with a module that allows to control it using MIDI devices. Currently this is only supported on GNU/Linux with either the OSS or the ALSA sound drivers. It might work on other platforms as well if there is a way to access the raw MIDI stream by opening a device. GIMP Manual Pages - gimp (1) - 1) manual page. Table of Contents Name. GIMP Manual Pages - gimprc (5) - RC(5) manual page. Comments are introduced by a hash sign (#), and continue until the end of the line. GIMP Manual Pages - gimp-remote (1) - REMOTE(1) manual page.
GIMP Documentation for Developers and Script Authors - GIMP Developer Resources - GIMP Development. Writing a GIMP Plug-In. GIMP Python module documentation. This document outlines the interfaces to GIMP-Python, which is a set of Python modules that act as a wrapper to libgimp allowing the writing of plug-ins for GIMP. In this way, GIMP-Python is similar to Script-Fu, except that you can use the full set of Python extension modules from the plug-in. Introduction What is it? GIMP Script-Fu documentation - Script-Fu and plug-ins for The GIMP. Simon Budig One of the big advantages of The GIMP is the fact that it can be easily extended with new functionality. GIMP Script-Fu changes in GIMP 2.4 (migration guide) - Script-Fu Migration Guide. Mailing Lists. IRC Channels. Feature Overview. Downloads. For Unix. For Windows. For Mac OS X. GTK+ and GIMP installers for Windows - Browse Files.
GIMP Portable. GIMP. Introduction. A repository of optional extensions for the GIMP. Development.