GIMP

Image editing and creation is not limited to the Mac or Windows. In fact, one of the flagship applications for Linux (and open source) happens to be a photo manipulation application. Gimp is a very powerful tool that equals (and, in some instances, bests) its proprietary competition.

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A guide to using version 2 of GIMP, the popular open-source digital image editor, was released this month by O'Reilly Media. GIMP 2 for Photographers is like a classroom seminar that starts with the basics, and enables students to learn as much as they want.

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Linux.com: With the release of Krita 1.6, it seems like a good time to compare the two big raster image editors for Linux. Coming as they do from the divergent GTK+ and KDE programming camps, it can be hard to assess the differences between the GIMP and Krita without being swayed by politics and emotion. Let's take a cold, hard look at the two, and compare the features side by side.

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GIMP developer Øyvind Kolås gave a public demonstration of the Generic Graphical Library (GEGL) on Friday at the Piksel 06 festival in Bergen, Norway. GEGL has long been slated to replace the core image processing framework of the GIMP, bringing with it entirely new data models and operations -- but development had languished to the point where many critics had written the project off entirely.

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GIMP 2.3.9 is the latest and hopefully one of the last development snapshots on the way to version 2.4 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program. The source code can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org. There are quite a number of changes, all listed at developer.gimp.org. If you want to try this unstable development snapshot, please read the release notes for the development releases

Version 2.2.11 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program is now available. This is a bug-fix release in the stable 2.2 series. Please see the NEWS file for a detailed list of changes. The source code can be retrieved from ftp.gimp.org and its mirrors. Binary packages for the various supported platforms will become available soon.

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It is GIMP's Tenth Anniversary and close enough to the time for the 2.2.10 release of stable GIMP making it a very good time for a splash contest. This contest is very simple. We are collecting images with tutorials and when it is all done, the GIMP's Lead Developers will pick the one they find most appropriate.

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There are a few new gimp.org web sites lately.

paths.gimp.org is a collection of news from the world of free art software. in particular from the people who are going to be attending the Libre Graphics Meeting next year.

layers.gimp.org is a collection of GIMP developers with blogs.

pixels.gimp.org is a collection of GIMP users with blogs.

The developers of the GNU Image Manipulation Program have released a new development snapshot on the road to GIMP 2.4. The source code is available from the FTP server. GIMP 2.3.4 has lots of changes all over the place, with the focus on usability. Most notable change is that plug-in dialogs are now transient to the image window and that the menus are being reorganized. This is an ongoing effort and you are invited to participate.

Hugin is a cross-platform GUI for Panorama Tools.

The first tutorial shows how to use d and e lens shift parameters to stitch a long series of photographs
taken of a mural: http://www.dojoe.net/tutorials/linear-pano/

The second one covers using vertical and horizontal control points to re-align rectilinear photographs:
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/perspective/

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.

The GIMP developers have released another snapshot in the GIMP 2.3 development series. Here's where all the shiny new stuff is being added. So if you want to get a glimpse into GIMP development and perhaps even help with it, you should first read the release notes, then give this release a try.

The most notable change in this release is the start of a massive menu reorganization. Your feedback on this effort is much appreciated. Please add your suggestions on how to proceed with this.

Another snapshot of the GNU Image Manipulation Program development release has been prepared for those of you that are afraid of using CVS but would still like to have a look at the current development towards GIMP 2.4. If you want to try this version, please read the release notes for the development snapshots

The source can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.3/, a list of changes is available at the developer website.

The GIMP developers are proud to announce the new version of the GIMP User Manual GIMP (0.8). Please keep in mind that this release is intended for developers and interested users for reading.

The release can be downloaded from:

ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/help/testing/

For more information about our project and helping us, you can visit our
project page at:

http://docs.gimp.org

The manual includes a lot of improvements by our docwriters and
contributors:

The GIMP developers are proud to announce version 2.3.0 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program. This is a first snapshot of the development that will lead to GIMP 2.4. The release is provided for developers and interested users. Please see the NEWS file on developer.gimp.org for a list of changes. Screenshots of the development version can also be found there.

If you want to give GIMP 2.3.0 a try, please make sure you read and understand the release notes for the development snapshots.