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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 28 2018, @02:15AM
Before, the system had "save a copy" and you could save XCF and save copies in WUTEVR. Or save WUTEVR and not care about XCFs for that file. But they had to force everyone with their "We Know Better" SuperPower... and including conditions (was it exported already?), so we got Overwrite (yay, yet another command to eat a shortcut). Now "save a copy" is mostly worthless (=duplicate and save that) except for (maybe, I don't remember) a bit less typing while picking filename.
A fucking mess inflicted into everyone, because some were unable to self organize. Oh, BTW, XCF doesn't save everything... where is the undo stack? So XCF must be in the Export group too. :P
BTW, have they finally added timed auto saves? It was on topic when all the "save/export is serious business" took place (new in 2.7/2.8), it was still not fixed even if old by then (2.6 was released in 2008, editors had it for decades). https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138373 [gnome.org] It seems they didn't, 2004-2018 and counting.
Someone did a hack in Perl or Python (comments 50, 45 and others, GIMP devs want the thing "perfect", so hacks don't count). I had forgotten they even said Gimp was stable (comment 17), so it was not prioritary to code autosave... what about hardware issues (comment 32)? Or something killing GIMP, like the desktop or OOM killer (maybe self inflicted, maybe other program triggers it and Gimp is sacrificed... see comment 26)? Yeah, "We Know Better" over and over.
Now you know why GIMP lost steam, people got something called life or/and got pissed. Years ago they got offers to be paid, but the core was opposed, now, a bit late, some GIMP devs are OK with getting paid for the job. TLTL.