GIMP 3.0.2

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GIMP provides the tools needed for high quality image manipulation. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. From retouching to restoring to creative composites, the only limit is your imagination.

GIMP gives artists the power and flexibility to transform images into truly unique creations. It also is a high quality application for producing icons, graphical design elements, and art for user interface components and mockups.

GIMP provides top-notch color management features to ensure high-fidelity color reproduction across digital and printed media. It is best used in workflows involving other free software such as Scribus, Inkscape, and SwatchBooker.

GIMP is a high quality framework for scripted image manipulation. This application provides extensibility through integration with many programming languages including Scheme, Python, Perl, and more. The result is a high level of customization as demonstrated by the large number of scripts and plug-ins created by the community.

Customizable Interface

Each task requires a different environment and the application allows you to customize the view and behavior the way you like it. Start from the widget theme and change colors, widget spacings and icon sizes to custom tool sets in the toolbox. The interface is modulized into so called docks. That allows you to stack them into tabs or keep them open in their own window. Pressing the tab key will toggle them hidden. GIMP features a great fullscreen mode, which allows you to not only preview your artwork but also do editing work while using the most of your screen estate.

Photo Enhancement

Numerous digital photo imperfections you can easily compensate using the app. Fix perspective distortion caused by lens tilt simply choosing the corrective mode in the transform tools. Eliminate lens’ barrel distortion and vignetting with a powerful filter but a simple interface. The included channel mixer gives you the flexibility and power to get your B/W photography stand out the way you need.

Digital Retouching

GIMP is ideal for advanced photo retouching techniques. Get rid of unneeded details using the clone tool, or touch up minor details easily with the new healing tool. With the perspective clone tool, it’s not difficult to clone objects with perspective in mind just as easily as with the orthogonal clone.

Hardware Support

GIMP includes a very unique support for various input devices out of the box. Pressure and tilt sensitive tablets, but also a wide range of USB or MIDI controllers. You can bind often-used actions to device events such as rotating a USB wheel or moving a MIDI controller’s slider. Change the size, angle or opacity of a brush while you paint, bind your favorite scripts to buttons. Hence, speed up your workflow!

Supported File Formats

The file format support ranges from the common likes of JPEG (JFIF), GIF, PNG, TIFF to special use formats such as the multi-resolution and multi-color-depth Windows icon files. Furthermore, the architecture allows to extend GIMP’s format capabilities with a plug-in. Also, you can find some rare format support in the GIMP plugin registry.

Thanks to the transparent virtual file system, it is possible to load and save files to from remote locations using protocols such as FTP, HTTP or even SMB (MS Windows shares) and SFTP/SSH. To save disk space, you can save any format with an archive extension. Such as ZIP, GZ or BZ2 and GIMP will transparently compress the file without you needing to do any extra steps.

GIMP 3.0.0 ChangeLog

Release Notes

Version 3.0.0 highlights include:

Need to tweak a filter you applied hours ago? New in GIMP 3.0 is non-destructive editing for most commonly-used filters. See the changes in real time with on-canvas preview.
Exchange files with more applications, including BC7 DDS files as well as better PSD export and many new formats.
Don’t know how big to make your drawing? Simply set your paint tool to expand layers automatically as needed.
Making pro-quality text got easier, too. Style your text, apply outlines, shadows, bevels, and more, and you can still edit your text, change font and size, and even tweak the style settings.
Organizing your layers has become much easier with the ability to select multiple items at once, move them or transform them all together!
Color Management was again improved, as our long-term project to make GIMP an advanced image editor for all usages.
Updated graphical toolkit (GTK3) for modern desktop usage.
New Wilber logo!

Version 2.10.38 highlights include:

New features and improvements

Improved support for tablets on Windows
Backports of other GTK3 features

Bugfixes

Recent crashes
Other fixes

Homepage – https://gimp.org

GIMP is the Free and Open Source, cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more.

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