![]() Suppose it will make quite a few people happy. Preference nevertheless, now that single window mode is available, I (or is easier to do) in single window mode, or more difficult to do inįloating-palette mode. I have difficulty processing this criticism,īecause I have never seen anyone articulate something that works better Of people who swore that GIMP was downright unusable without a When you open multiple images at once, they are placed into tabs across the top of the window, with a thumbnail for each image.įor a long time there has been a highly-vocal subset In single window mode, the tool palette and dialog dock (which usually holds the layers dialog) snap onto the sides of the image window. The final new "bullet point" feature is an optional single window editing mode, which you can toggle in and out of from the "Windows" menu. This editing toolbar allows you to select any text in the layer and change it, so you can incorporate multiple colors and font settings in a single text layer - something that required multiple text layers (and fine layer-alignment skills to boot) in previous releases. ![]() From there, you can change font, text size, text color, and text decorations at will, just as you would in any text editor. The new text editor pops up a miniature editing toolbar that hovers on the canvas over the cursor. On-canvas text editing is the third new feature, and it is one that has been in development since GSoC 2008. GIMP 2.8 also introduces the ability to lock the pixels and alpha channels of individual layers (with "Lock" toggles on the layer dialog box) to prevent accidental changes this feature can also be used to lock the contents of entire layer groups. Although you cannot paint simultaneously into multiple layers in a layer group, you can move, transform, and hide groups, as well as change their opacity, blending mode, and other settings. As the name suggests, layer grouping allows you to nest image layers into sets, which you can then make adjustments to collectively. The second feature is support for layer groups. The tool is also a bit like the "Liquify" effect in Photoshop, in the sense that it allows smooth, "hands-on" manipulation of the image, in a manner that is far more interactive (and thus more intuitive) than traditional distort and transform tools. Drawing the rightĬage is critical to being able to manipulate the image the way you want fortunately you can adjust the cage on-canvas even after you start distorting it. The marionette in addition to twisting and turning it. ![]() with the major difference being that you can stretch and distort The effect is something like making a marionette move Image, then twist and distort the image within by manipulating the corners Tool allows you to draw arbitrary polyhedral outlines around part of an That originated in a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2010 project. ![]() The first is the Cage tool, an entirely new image transformation tool GIMP 2.8 introduces four new "big toys" in this category. ![]() Headline featuresĮach new release of a GUI application is expected to include at least a few immediately-usable improvements, either in the form of UI changes, or new tools and functionality. It will "migrate" settings from ~/.gimp-2.6/ to ~/.gimp-2.7/, but third-party plug-ins in particular are not likely to work without modification. The 2.7-series does introduce some API changes, so exercise caution when testing it out. Official development releases are made as source tarballs only, but Linux binaries are available through various third-party sites, such as or Matt Walker's personal package archive (PPA). Judging by builds from the unstable 2.7 branch, however, the next release will have goodies to share with several different types of GIMP user: photo editors, web designers, high-end, and casual.Īt the moment, the newest code is version 2.7.3, although the project's Git changelog suggests that there will be at least one more release (2.7.4) between now and a stable 2.8.0. The venerable GIMP image editor is nearing its next release, version 2.8, but as a decidedly "release-when-ready" project, there is no pre-determined drop date to circle on one's calendar. This article was contributed by Nathan Willis ![]()
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