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After 6 long years, GIMP has finally released version 2.10 using the Generic Graphics Library (GEGL) for high bit depth processing. This release comes with a brand new interface, better integrated color management, a new unified transform tool for scaling, rotating, and correcting perspective, and many other improvements and tools.
takyon: More detailed release notes and NEWS file.
High bit depth support allows processing images with up to 32-bit per color channel precision and open/export PSD, TIFF, PNG, EXR, and RGBE files in their native fidelity. Additionally, FITS images can be opened with up to 64-bit per channel precision.
Multi-threading allows making use of multiple cores for processing. Not all features in GIMP make use of that, it's something we intend to work on further. A point of interest is that multi-threading happens through GEGL processing, but also in core GIMP itself, for instance to separate painting from display code.
GPU-side processing is still optional, but available for systems with stable OpenCL drivers.
[...] Some of the new GEGL-based filters are specifically targeted at photographers: Exposure, Shadows-Highlights, High-pass, Wavelet Decompose, Panorama Projection and others will be an important addition to your toolbox.
The WebP lossy image format, which is now supported by GIMP, was updated by Google to v1.0.0 on April 2.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @08:31PM (4 children)
Just Too Late (as opposed to Just In Time) for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I find the distros are horribly atrocious in even trying to keep up with even the major software like GiMP or LibreOffice. Oh yes, just add the ppa to your Ubuntu or Mint, but the average user should not have to fiddle under the hood. I will be closely watching my Manjaro install to measure the lag time.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by KiloByte on Friday April 27 2018, @08:40PM (2 children)
A brief look shows it needs at least some polishing. For example, the toolbars rapidly get narrow as you do operations you wouldn't expect to resize them — and this is just a trivial interface issue. I guess there's plenty more that will become obvious only with more testing.
You don't put major releases of big software packages like Gimp into a LTS at the last minute for a reason.
Ceterum censeo systemd esse delendam.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @09:49PM (1 child)
That is of course correct! But the timing, the timing. I guess by the time 18.10 season arrives, we may get lucky. "All new interface" is a scary term nowadays, especially in the open-source / Linux world. Far too many poor examples of developers breaking previously working software with half-baked "new" ideas. My fresh install of 18.04 snap-ped to v2.8.22. Flatpak is yet-another-standard, sigh. Also to consider is what will happen to G'MIC and suchlike, and any custom scripts.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 28 2018, @12:35AM
G'MIC was (thankfully) recoded in QT so not very much. I always had a preference for Gtk and think Vala is a grossly underrated and underused language but the Gnome developers need to meet us halfway on this. No chance! If I were currently developing any GUI app today, no question it would be in QT/C++.
(Score: 4, Informative) by fyngyrz on Saturday April 28 2018, @12:54AM
No OS X version yet. Hopefully one will come along. Always fun to noodle through yet another image manipulation system, see what they're up to.
My company used to sell WinImages [ourtimelines.com] for Windows which I now make freely available, and I'm also working on this [ourtimelines.com] for OS X, also free.
I'm thinking about doing a modern general image manipulation system openly (I'd open it on github, probably) under Qt, which would provide (relatively) easy generation of OS X, Windows and Linux versions, using some of the tech from WinImages. Lots of good stuff in there to be mined.
It's a pretty good sized job, but then again, I've already done it once and I have the source code, so... I'm very tempted.