Gimp 2 4 release candidate

Gimp - The GNU image manipulation programa. Teniendo en cuenta que las versiones instalables (sin compilar) y ejecutables que se pueden descargar para Linux, Mac OSX y Windows son de la 2.2.17-1.

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Changes in Gimp 2.4.0-rc1.
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-Further improvement todo the print plug-in.

Completed the color management functionality for 2.4.

Estore jpeg setting with the image and use them when saving as jpeg.

Further improved the rectangle tools, in particular handling of the.

Fixed aspect ratio.

Added color profile selector widget.

Further improved the display quality for zomed-out views.

Changes in Gimp 2.3.19.
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-Support long layer names in psd files.

Improved exif handling in the jpeg file plug-in.

Added control for the playbak speed in the animation playbak plug-in.

Avoid nedless image preview invalidation.

Allow todo edit the image comentario in the image properties dialog.

Further improved rectangle tools.

Made jpeg save parameters user-configurable.

Avoid color conversións between idéntical IC color profiles.

Improved print plug-in.

Improved loading and saving of indexed tga images.

Bug fixes and code cleanup.

Changes in Gimp 2.3.18.
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-Temporarily show the hidden image statusbar while the progress is active.

Added support for loading.abr v6 Photoshop brushes.

Improved usability of color scales.

Improved display quality of zomed-out image view.

Bug fixes and code cleanup.

Changes in Gimp 2.3.17.
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-Improved import of multi-page tif files.

Reduced rounding errors in blur routines (Core and plugins).

Further improved parameter checks in the pdb.

Added support for loading.abr v2 Photoshop brushes.

Improved border behavior of the blur tool.

Show the brush outline at the Clone Tool source position.

Added libgimpbase Api todo retrieve the user pictures folder.

Add a shortcut todo the user pictures folder todo the file-choser dialog.

Improved the quality of the Motion Blur filter.

Save paths in tif files.

Let the screenshot plug-in name the new layer After the window.

Use memory slices todo reduce memory fragmentation.

Some code cleanup.

Lots of bug fixes.

Changes in Gimp 2.3.16.
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-Make the XOR color configurable as a work-around for broken drivers.

Allow todo assing keyboard shortcuts todo procedures without menú entry.

Allow todo configure the height of the preview área in data editors.

Improved file detection in tga plug-in.

Improved brush scaling code, now a los scales up.

Converted standard pixmap brushes todo parametric ones.

Improved zoom tool behavior.

D-bus methods now have a return value indicating success or failure.

Added more menú toltips.

Allow procedures todo request the display id they are being called from.

Depend on GTK+ >= 2.10.6 and use some of the new functions in GTK+ 2.10.

Allow filename passed on the command-line todo be opened as new images.

Various optimizations.

Bug fixes and code cleanup.

Changes in Gimp 2.3.15.
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-Added keyboard control todo rectangle tools and improved their tool options.

Improved console handling on Windows 32.

Support large xcf files (> 2 Gb) on Windows 32 also.

Cleanup of the internal undo system.

Ask before overwriting files, not only for image files.

Added revert zoom functionality.

Added gimpstringcombobox widget todo libgimpwidgets.

Added hal support for hotplug of Linux input devices.

Added support for shaped Windows todo the screenshot plug-in.

Improved handling of incompleete (*.png) files.

Categorize contributors into active and inactive.

Added controller module for directinput controllers on Windows 32.

Speed up transform tools.

Improved tool cancellation framework.

Fixed select -> border behaviour and added option for stick image Edges.

Bug fixes and code cleanup.

Changes in Gimp 2.3.14.
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-Added actions todo control brush spacing.

Polished appearance of image window.

Scale the brush spacing when scaling the brush.

Save tool presets when they are changed.

Improved handling of vectors in the Python bindings.

Allow for auto-cropping the result of the transform tools.

Added gimpratioentry widget and use it in the rectangle tool options.

Added functions todo transform between preview and image coordinates.

Added pdb functions todo validate display, drawable, image and vectors ID.

Added hsl color model todo decompose and compose plugins.

Further improved status bar messages for tools.

On systems with d-bus build Gimp-remote functionality into Gimp executable.

Bug fixes and code cleanup.

Changes in Gimp 2.3.13.
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-Show información about embebercolor profiles in image properties dialog.

Allow todo apply color profiles on load (still work in progress).

New vectors pdb Api todo replace the old Path Api.

Added auntie alias plug-in for antialiasing on lineart.

Added edit->fade operation.

Added rounded corners option todo rectangle select tool.

Improved winicon plug-in (now loads and sabes 24 bit and vista icons).

Merged Gimp-tiny-fu, reproduzcas script-fu Scheme interpreter with tinyscheme.

Remember unit and interpolation type in scale and resize dialogs.

Changed default interpolation type todo cubic.

Show comentario in image properties dialog.
-When loading in image as layers, dont merge the layers.

Added experimental palette color selector module.

Dont save thumbnails that dont match the image.

Increased tool handle sizes for better usability.

Implemented brush scaling from the tool options (only downscaling yet).

Import paths embeberinto tif files.

Support vectors in the script-fu and Python-fu user interfaces.

Added pdb functions todo retrieve position of layers/channels/vectors.

Added side pane with table of contents todo the help browser.

Bug fixes and code cleanup.

Changes in Gimp 2.3.12.
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-Merged the perspective Clone Tool.

Allow todo pan the image view using the space bar.

Show a thumbnail in the rotate jpeg? Query dialog.

Added file información todo the image properties dialog.

More work on the new selection tools.

Give immidiate feedbak when tool modifier keys are pressed.

Added Lens distortion plug-in.

Internationalize Python Binding and Python plugins.

Improved internal message infrastructure, use the statusbar for warnings.

Added an url loader backend based on libcurl.

Build a color-managed CMYK color selector if lcms is available.

Localize script-fu procedure descriptions.

Lots of user interfaz polishing.

Bug fixes and code cleanup.

Changes in Gimp 2.3.11.
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-Depend on newer versións of glib, GTK+ and pango and use some of the new.

Features in these libraries.

Made Control-p the default shortcut for print.

Show progress when loading/saving xcf files.

Added support for 16/32 bit bitmaps and Alpha Channel todo the bmp plug-in.

If posible, detect the number of cpus.

Allow todo disable the build of the script-fu extensión.

Many improvements todo the Python bindings and the pygimp user interfaz.

Made message dialogs transient for the progress window.

Added pdb Api for creating a selection from vectors.

Further improved status bar messages for tools.

Derive bycolorselect and fuzzyselect tools from a common base class.

Finer control over select-by-color functionality.

Minor optimizations in the drawing code.

Abstract brush outline drawing into the common base class gimpbrushtol.

Estore sample points in xcf files.

Added extended pdb Api for selection procedures.

Added convenience Api todo libgimp that creates a layer from a gdkpixbuf.

Added midpoint handles todo scale tool for scaling with fixed width or height.

Let color picker tools select a matching color in the palette editor.

Allow todo use foreground and background color in gradients.

Added first draft of a new healing brush tool.

Abstract Clone Tool functionality into the common base class gimpsourcetol.

Improvements todo the new selection tools.

Dont wake up the Gimp every so often.

Added gimphintbox widget todo libgimpwidgets.

Bug fixes and code cleanup.

Changes in Gimp 2.3.10.
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-Added support for a registration color in the decompose plug-in.

The align tool now a los aligns todo guides.

Allow use of CS color notation in script-fu.

More work on the new selection tools.

Let fractal explorer work on grayscale and give it a larger preview.

Speed up value invert plug-in.

Added strong undo/redo functions bound todo shift-Control-[zy].

Use radio Items for the image mode menú.

Applied tango style on the default iconset.

Added plug-in for Colormap manipulation.

Allow plugins todo register in layers, channels, vectors and Colormap dialog.

Added load plug-in todo open desktop links.

Removed print plugins and started work on a replacement using the.

New GTK+ print Api.

Added replacements for gimp_fo_select widgets, aquín todo gimpfontselectbutton.

Introduced translation context todo a number of colliding string.

Bug fixes and code cleanup.

Changes in Gimp 2.3.9.
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-Better interpolation for Smooth curves in the curve tool.

Added an auto button todo the threshold tool that picks a suitable value.

Simplified user installation, only display a dialog in case of an error.

Added red eye removal plug-in.

Added thumbnail loader todo gif load plug-in.

Declared Even more data as const.

Refactoring of the pdb and plug-in management code.

Allow merge todo work on a single layer.

Added a bien todo remove all keyboard shortcuts from the preferencias dialog.

Added menú Items for text todo Path, text along Path and text todo.

Selection.

Allow todo initialize a new layer mask with any of the image channels.

Added clipboard brush and clipboard pattern.

Added scripts todo sort color palettes.

Swap meanings of dilate and erode which have ben wrong for a long time.

Show Clone Tool source location while painting.

Use gtkfilechoserbutton in place of gimpfileentry.

Added script todo reverse the order of layers.

Added sample merged and selected pixels only options todo palette import.

Added actions todo select palette and Colormap colors.

New environment variable todo control which Batch interpreter todo use.

Give plugins Access todo the CPU detection so that they can use mx code.

Speed up selective Gaussian Blur plug-in.

Improved tool cursors, added Edge resizing cursors.

Improved behaviour of new selection tools.

Allow todo reset all gimprc values from the preferencias dialog.

Optionally show guides in the crop tool.

Bug fixes and code cleanup.

Changes in Gimp 2.3.8.
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-Added new Tile primitive triangle todo Mosaic plug-in.

Speed up Gaussian Blur plug-in.

Suppress redundant progress updates from plugins.

Changed some gimprc and sessionrc default values (window hints.

Fullscreen mode).

Do not focus transform tool dialogs on map.

Renamed magnify tool todo zoom tool and added some missing tool shortcuts.

Added a submenú with recently used plugins todo the filters menú.

Fixed lok-up table used for contrast adjustments.

Improved the user interfaz of the animation playbak plug-in.

Added framework for describing menú entries in the statusbar.

Added Lots of helpful blurbs todo procedures and Core actions.

Remove color from the watercolor selector if shift is being pressed.

Ported pdb internals todo gparamspec and gvalue.

Spedup and UI improvements for the siox tool.

Added parasite getters and settors for vectors.

Made psd load and save plugins 64bit clean.

Some string review.

Ported elipse select tool todo the new rectangle tool.

Added basic support for layer masks todo the psd save plug-in.

Avoid relocations by declaring more data as const.

New application icons in more sizes and as a SVG.

Provide script-specific samples instead of hard-coding aa for font preview.

Build the screenshot plug-in on all platforms.

Allow todo discard invisible layers when merging visible layers.

Nicer output from Gimp-procedural-db-dump.

Bug fixes and code cleanup.

Changes in Gimp 2.3.7.
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-Depend on GTK+ 2.8, use some of the new features.

Removed workarounds for problems in GTK+ 2.6.

Moved align visible layers todo the image menú.

Started todo add a new vectors pdb Api.

Make it more obvious that docks can be rearranged by drag and drop.

Modified the behaviour of the tab key.

Added -license command-line option.

Improved dither Matrix for RGB->indexed conversión.

Added pdb Api todo stroke with any Paint method.

Gave some plugins more sensible names.

Kep settings of brush/pattern/font/, button popups across sessions.

Reduced number of memory allocations by declaring some string as static.

Some improvements todo the plug-in preview widgets.

Added enlaces todo important topics in the user manual.

Let the configure script display a summary of options.

Bug fixes and code cleanup.

Changes in Gimp 2.3.6.
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-Even faster application startup.

Binary relocatibility on Linux by means of binreloc.

Be more verbose when being asked for it.

Select color index when picking from an indexed drawable.

Allow todo migrate Windows between displays.

Mouse-whel scrolling and zoming in plug-in previews.

Added keyboard shortcuts ([ and ]) for changing the brush Radius.

Improved oilify plug-in.

Made the iwarp plug-in preview resizeable.

Added alignment mode for cloning from a fixed location source.

Completed Core/ui separation of Paint tools and Paint methods.

Bug fixes and code cleanup.

Changes in Gimp 2.3.5.
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-Optionally add Jitter todo Paint strokes.

Implemented Snap todo Path.

Added pdb Api todo Access the image grid.

Ease Access todo keyboard shortcuts editor.

Optimizations todo the Tile caché and undo/redo implementations.

More work on the buffer pdb Api.

Bug fixes todo the new zomable plug-in previews.

Optimization of the siox algorithm.

Menú reorganisation in the Toolbox menú.

Export open as layer todo the pdb as file-load-layer.

Added keyboard control for the curves tool.

Load and save embeberic profiles from/to (*.png) images.

Improved appearance of some tool icons on dark background.

Added pdb Api todo get and set Path visibility.

Let data editors follow the active brush, palette and gradiente (optional).

Some rearrangements in the new toplevel colors menú.

Speed up reloading of data files.

Allow todo copy the location of data files todo the clipboard.

Allow todo disable saving of the document history in the preferencias.

Slightly faster application startup.

More use of ngettext for plural forms.

Bug fixes and code cleanup.

Changes in Gimp 2.3.4.
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-Allow plugins and scripts todo register menú entries in the <brushes>.
gradients>, <palettes>, <patterns> and <fonts> menús.

Replaced selection todo brush/pattern scripts with scripts that paste.

A new brush/pattern from the content of the clipboard.

Allow todo easily close all opened images.

Added a first versión of a print plug-in using libgnomeprint.

Improved sphere designer plug-in.

Improved compose plug-in.

Added a zomable preview widget for plugins.

Implement copy and paste of paths as SVG.

Use new stock icons introduced with GTK+ 2.6.

Allow todo zoom in/out using the +/- Keys on the numerical keypad.

Make it easier todo drop dockables below the Toolbox.

Set plug-in dialogs transient todo the window they have ben called from.

Added pdb function todo obtain handles todo the image and progress Windows.

Export named buffers todo the pdb.

Easier Access todo the popup menú in Empty container views.

Use ngettext for plural forms.

Implement sample merged for the Clone Tool.

Various Windows 32 fixes.

Fixed capitalization for better High compliance.

Use a descriptive verb instead of ok as button label in most dialogs.

Redone about dialog todo be more informative.

Take the default unit from the locale settings.

Moved color-related tools and plugins todo a new toplevel colors menú.

Let the gnomevfs plug-in use Gnome authentication manager if available.

Rewritten crop tool (work in progress).

Added page selector todo the PostScript import plug-in.

Added preview todo checkerboard and threshold alpha plugins.

More pdb procedure and parameter name canonicalization.

Touched up new Path tool cursors and added one for the join operation.

Bug fixes and code cleanup.

Changes in Gimp 2.3.3.
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-Improved new gimppageselector widget.

Minor improvements todo the procedure and plug-in browsers.

Set alternative button order in some places that were missed earlier.

Added siox algorithm for foreground extraction.

Fixed most gcc 4.0 warnings.

Improved cursor view and sample points functionality.

Prepared code and UI for more layer look types.

Added new pdf import plug-in based on libpoppler.

Undeprecated and improved palette editor, added cursor navigation.

Show more información in the image properties dialog.

Added Prototype of siox foreground selection tool.

Fixed build of mx code on gcc 4.0.

Moved procedure browser todo libgimpwidgets as gimpprocbrowserdialog.

Canonicalize pdb procedure and parameter names.

Use the coeficients from the SRGB Spec when calculating luminance.

Allow todo remove Alpha Channel from a layer.

Added more diferent cursors for the paths tool.

Bug fixes and code cleanup.

Changes in Gimp 2.3.2.
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-More standard bien of dealing with translation of the startup tips.

Allow todo use the selected font in the text tool text editor.

Some minor UI changes for High compliance.

Redid the framework that deals with installing desktop files.

Started todo reorganize menús, mainly plugins and scripts.

Renamed scatter RGB and scatter Hsv todo RGB noise and Hsv noise.

Allow todo clear the document history.

Dont normalize the result in the laplace plug-in (bug #306874).

Ported fractalexplorer GUI todo gtktreview, getting rid of the last.

Xpm icons that were being used.

Added an option todo Motion Blur todo blur outwards.

Added support for the proposed IC profiles in x specification.

Added new widget gimpenumlabel todo libgimpwidgets.

Let the lcms display filter module show información about the used.

Color profiles.

Improved drawing of the brush outline.

Fixed build of Python lenguaje Binding on Windows 32.

Allow plugins todo Access the user color management configuration.

Added new widget gimppageselector todo libgimpwidgets.

Renabled the debug menú.

Load and save IC color profiles from/to jpeg images.

Bug fixes and code cleanup.

Changes in Gimp 2.3.1.
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-Allow todo copy and paste SVG between Gimp and other applications.

Added a utility for testing and debugging clipboard operations.

More work on the new vectors pdb Api.

Made screen Edges active in the image display in fullscreen mode.

Made file and color selection dialogs transient todo their parent Windows.

Moved browser widget from procedure browser plug-in todo libgimpwidgets.

Allow more search types in the procedure browser.

Reduced size of the colors dockable by moving the Hex entry down.

Added object properties todo gimpcolorarea and gimpcolorbutton.

Changed default for RGB->indexed conversión todo not todo any Dithering.

Allow todo paste a new image using Control-v on the Toolbox.

Show previews of dash presets in stroke options dialog.

Escape key cancels the window selection in the screenshot plug-in.

Allow todo operate the brightness contrast tool by clicking and dragging.

On the canvas.

Improved sample points dockable.

Added first draft of new align tool.

Turned image and drawable combo boxes in libgimpui into real widgets.

Further improved Python bindings.

Nicer donde icons for viewables.

Allow todo hide the button-bar found at the bottom of most dockables.

Turned font selection in libgimpui into a real widget.

Added support for bmp files with Alpha Channel (RGBA).

Bug fixes and code cleanup.

Changes in Gimp 2.3.0.
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-Added recompose plug-in.

Added rectangle tool in gfig plug-in.

Improved palette editor color donde.

Improved exif handling in jpeg plug-in.

Smoother autoscrolling in image display.

Added Snap todo canvas border and Snap todo Path (yet unimplemented).

Added previews todo Mosaic, pixelize and sparkle plugins.

Added Lanzcos interpolation method.

Added open as image menú entries todo brushes and patterns dialogs.

Improved drag-n-drop of drawables within Gimp.

Added a Prototype of a new rectangular select tool.

Moved a bunch of enums from Core into libgimpbase.

Moved gimpconfig functionality from Core into libgimpconfig.

Moved gimpenumstore and gimpenumcombobox todo libgimpwidgets.

Moved convenience constructors for property views todo libgimpwidgets.

Ported imagemap plug-in todo action based menús.

First steps towards color management.

Use goptioncontext for command-line parsing.

Added a Gnome-vfs backend for the uri plug-in (former url plug-in).

Prepared code for accessing remote files in the file-choser.

Let all dialogs obey the GTK-alternative-button-order setting.

Extended gimpprogress pdb Api.

Improved file type handling in file save dialog.

Resurrected hiloed píxel processor and enable it by default.

Parallelized a few more internal functions.

Speed up gradiente Dithering.

Improved psd save plug-in.

Improved Python bindings.

Allow todo resize layers with the image.

Allow todo control letter spacing in the text tool.

Added Path-on-Path functionality, use it todo implement text on Path.

Improved gradiente editor.

Allow todo import paths from a string.

Ported all code todo gstdio wrappers.

Added infrastructure for color sample points.

Added first draft of a metadata editor plug-in.

Speed up Burn compositing function.

Added altivec versións of some compositing functions.

Added pdb Api todo control the number of columns in a palette.

Allow todo control hue overlap in hue-saturation tool.

Added a pdb Api todo register menú branches.

Added missing mnemonics.

Improved screenshot plug-in.

Allow todo drag brushes/patterns/gradients, todo the selectors in script-fu.

Allow todo save images by dragging them todo a filemanager that supports the.

Xds protocol.

Optimizations in the color deficiency display filter.

Transfer the clipboard content todo a clipboard manager on exit.

Moved cursor información out of the info window into a dockable.

Moved remaining bits of the info window todo a new image properties dialog.

Build and install Gimp-console by default.

Allow todo drag and drop image data into Gimp.

Use the statusbar more todo display hints and información about the tool state.

Resurrected -no-data functionality.

Zoom todo the cursor position instead of the display center.

Some improvements todo the helpbrowser plug-in.

Load Photoshop brushes in the.abr format.

Allow todo choose between diferent algorithms for desaturate.

Added thumbnail loader todo winicon plug-in.

Improved configuration of input controllers.

Added an option todo make the Dok Windows transient todo the active image display.

Lots of code cleanup and bug-fixes.