For those of us who are Gimp fans, the latest version 2.7.0 contains features essential for photographers. The latest Gimp release contains a feature to correct barrel distortion, a feature called “perspective transform, sample colorize” to make your black and white photos stand out, and a few cloning tools for digital retouching.
List of Features:
- Change the Text Tool to perform text editing on-canvas (GSoC 2008)
- Add support for tagging GIMP resources such as brushes and allow filtering based on these tags (GSoC 2008)
- Separate the activies of saving an image and exporting it, there is now an ‘File->Export…’ for example
- Port file plug-ins to new export API which gets rid of many annoying export dialogs
- Add a simple parser to size entry widgets, images can be scaled to e.g. “50%” or “2 * 37px + 10in”
- Arrange layer modes into more logical and useful groups
- Added support for rotation of brushes
- Make the Pointer dockable show information about selection position and size
- Get rid of the Tools dockable and move toolbox configuration to
Preferences:
- Add status bar feedback for keyboard changes to brush paramaters
- Add diagonal guides to the Crop Tool
- New docks are created at the pointer position
- Add support for printing crop marks for images
- Move ‘Text along path’ from tool options to text context menu
- Change default shortcuts for “Shrink Wrap” and “Fit in Window” to Ctrl+R and Ctrl+Shift+R respectively since the previous shortcuts are now used for the save+export feature
- Make Alt+Click on layers in Layers dockable create a selection from the layer
- Allow to specify written language in the Text Tool