+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted May 3, 2012 Subscriber² Share Posted May 3, 2012 GIMP 2.8 released We are happy to announce immediate availability of GIMP 2.8 ? a new stable version of GNU Image Manipulation Program that culminates 3.5 years of exciting work. With this version we are introducing some long-anticipated features such as layer groups, on-canvas text editing, advanced brush dynamics and the much desired optional single-window mode. We also started applying other important changes to the user interface that bring us closer to matching the product vision. For detailed information about changes since 2.6 please read the release notes. Source code is available for downloading from a plethora of mirrors, a build for Windows will soon be available, and we hope to see a build for Mac OS X released as well. We'd like to thank everyone who participated in development of GIMP 2.8: programmers, translators, documentation writers (updated user manual is a work in progress), and testers. We also thank our user community for the dedication and support ? we needed it more than ever. Now that this version is finally released, we are grasping the future with both hands. Stay tuned: some really exciting news will follow. Source: GIMP website View: Release notes Download: GIMP 2.8 (source code only at the moment; binaries to follow) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamminium Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Finally! the better twin and Adrian0E 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the better twin Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Finally! This. Been using the various dev builds and its a vast improvement. Lots of features needed have been a long time coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda X Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 The separate export/save dialogs is annoying enough in my opinion to not use it. You don't need a separate duplicate dialog just to save in another format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the better twin Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 The separate export/save dialogs is annoying enough in my opinion to not use it. You don't need a separate duplicate dialog just to save in another format. This is a life saver for me and makes so much more sense. In the old versions I would save to png, make changes to the xcf and forget to resave the changes to xcf before i closed the program. ctrl s to save, ctrl e to export, it works much better when you use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhangm Supervisor Posted May 4, 2012 Supervisor Share Posted May 4, 2012 This is a life saver for me and makes so much more sense. In the old versions I would save to png, make changes to the xcf and forget to resave the changes to xcf before i closed the program. ctrl s to save, ctrl e to export, it works much better when you use it. A more graceful way to have done it would be to make Save always add an .xcf extension by default, but still allow the user to append their own manually, and have Export remember the last-saved file type. I think it is absurd that you can navigate that obscene Save dialog box to the folder that you want and try to save as a PNG only for the program to tell you to suck it and do everything over again. Panda X 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiagosilva29 Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda X Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 A more graceful way to have done it would be to make Save always add an .xcf extension by default, but still allow the user to append their own manually, and have Export remember the last-saved file type. I think it is absurd that you can navigate that obscene Save dialog box to the folder that you want and try to save as a PNG only for the program to tell you to suck it and do everything over again. This would be better. And it's more consistent with how other programs work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Somnus Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Still no Windows 2.8 build on the download site. While I don't use GIMP all that often, I would like to try out some of the new features. For about a year now I have been trying to convert all my paid applications to suitable free/open source alternatives. Now that I rarely use Outlook anymore due to using Google services for my calendar and task needs, I am about ready to dump anything Microsoft related. Once I figure out how to get Fedora to install on my netbook, everything in the house will be Microsoft free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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