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Scott Gilbertson at El Reg reports:
Despite its relatively obscure version number, GIMP 2.9.2, released recently, represents a major leap forward for the popular image editing suite.
Like all odd-numbered GIMP releases, 2.9.2 is considered a technical preview, but the features here will form the base of the stable release GIMP 2.10.
[...] This release has a lot of under-the-hood changes--in particular this largely completes the move to the Generic Graphics Library, better [known] as GEGL. GEGL is GIMP's "new" image processing engine and the project has been slowly incorporating GEGL code for quite a few releases. In fact, while the GEGL in GIMP still gets referred to as "new," the project itself began life in 2000 and GIMP has been slowly porting over to GEGL since 2007.
That means GIMP 2.9.2 has support for high bit depth image (16/32bit per colour channel processing). There's even an option for 64bit-per-channel images, though that appears to be a feature planned for the future. The GEGL support also means GIMP now has basic support for the OpenEXR high dynamic range imaging image file format. In addition to OpenEXR, GIMP 2.10 has been upgraded to read and write 16/32bit per colour channel data from PNG, TIFF, PSD, and FITS files.
The other big news is the new on-canvas preview for image filters. In past versions of GIMP most filters only offered a very small preview window within the filter dialog box. It works, but it often means you have to stop interacting with the filter to zoom and pan around your image to see what the effect is doing. With 2.10, many filters will be able to apply their effect to your image in the background in real time.
[...] 57 plugins have been ported to become GEGL operations, with another 27 in progress. Another 37 plugins still need to be ported. Unfortunately, some photographer favourites like Unsharp Mask, Gaussian blur, and Red Eye Removal--all of which become much more usable with real-time previews--are still works in progress (if you use the bleeding-edge PPA for Ubuntu, you'll find that Gaussian and Unsharp Mask have been updated to GEGL). Still, strictly by the numbers, the majority of GIMP's filters now offer live previews.
[...] Completing the move to GEGL also puts some exciting new features on the GIMP roadmap, including the holy grail of image editing--non-destructive editing. You'll have to wait for GIMP 3.2 before non-destructive editing lands, but in the mean time the high bit depth support and filter previews feature already make all the work (and users waiting) for GEGL feel well worth it.
[...] Though, I've found this one to be rock solid in my testing, [...] don't try to do production work in this [technical preview]. [...] [One hopes] an official release of 2.10 won't be too far in the future.
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