Over at ars technica Ryan Paul takes the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) 2.8 release for a spin and looks at the future plans for the project, including a full transition to the Generic Graphics Library (GEGL) in the 2.10 release. “After the 2.10…
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Hands-on: Testing the GIMP 2.8 and its New Single-Window Interface
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GIMP Updates with a New Interface, Layer Groups, and More [GIMP]
Windows/Linux: The free image editing tool GIMP has received a big update to version 2.8 that includes an overhaul to the interface and makes it a bit easier to use and navigate windows. It also comes packed with a bunch of bug fixes, a new layer group…
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GIMP 2.8 Released: Watch Out Photoshop
The GIMP project has announced the release of the most awaited version 2.8. This version brings the much talked about single-windowed mode. The new version has come out after three years.
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GIMP 2.10 Will use 16-bit Colour Depth Throughout
Two GIMP developers took a few weeks off and successfully ported many of the program's features to the GEGL library. The current plan is to have GIMP completely ported over to GEGL by the time version 2.10 is released…
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GIMP 2.10 To Be Fully Ported To GEGL Core
GEGL in GIMP is finally going to be going full-speed. For GIMP 2.10 the open-source imaging program's core will be 100% ported to GEGL, the Generic Graphics Library…
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Natterer: Goat Invasion in GIMP
On his blog, Michael Natterer writes about some major progress in making GIMP work with the Generic Graphics Library (GEGL), which will allow GIMP to handle images with more than 8-bits-per-channel among other things. "About 5 weeks ago, I happ…
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GIMP 2.8 RC 1 Arrives with GPU Acceleration
The first release candidate of the next stable version of the open source graphics editor adds experimental support for GPU hardware acceleration of graphics operations…
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Making Short Work of Image Conversions with Converseen
Thanks to my photography background, I tend to equate "image manipulation" with "photo adjustment and retouching" – but of course that is just one task. For a lot of jobs, image manipulation means dull work like repeatedly …
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Development Release: Fedora 17 Alpha
Dennis Gilmore has announced the availability of the initial public test release of Fedora 17 – featuring the GNOME 3.4 and KDE 4.8 desktops, a development build of GIMP 2.8, and the controversial placement of system files in /usr: "The Fedora …
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A Look at the LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards Winners
Every year LinuxQuestions.org hosts a members choice awards, which lets members of the site vote for their favorite Linux distributions and open source applications. There's not a lot of change in the results from last year, but the results do s…
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