The Gimp - Version: 2.8.2

[McLovin]

The GIMP is a multiplatform photo manipulation tool. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

• Full suite of painting tools including brushes, a pencil, an airbrush, cloning, etc.
• Tile-based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
• Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high-quality anti-aliasing
• Full Alpha channel support
• Layers and channels
• A procedural database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs, such as Script-Fu
• Advanced scripting capabilities
• Multiple undo/redo (limited only by disk space)
• Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
• File formats supported include GIF, JPEG, PNG, XPM, TIFF, TGA, MPEG, PS, PDF, PCX, BMP and many others
• Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, bezier and intelligent
• Plug-ins that allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters

Change Log - Link.

Core:

• Make tag matching always case-insensitive
• Let the tile-cache-size default to half the physical memory

GUI:

• Mention that the image was exported in the close warning dialog
• Make sure popup windows appear on top on OSX
• Allow file opening by dropping to the OSX dock
• Fix the visibility logic of the export/overwrite menu items
• Remove all "Use GEGL" menu items, they only add bugs and zero function
• Improve performance of display filters, especially color management
• Fix the image window title to comply with the save/export spec and use the same image name everywhere, not only in the title
• Fix positioning of pasted/dropped stuff to be more reasonable

Libgimp:

• Move gimpdir and thumbnails to proper locations on OSX
• Implement relocation on OSX
• Allow to use $(gimp_installation_dir) in config files

Plug-ins:

• Fix remembering of JPEG load/save defaults
• Revive the page setup dialog on Windows

Source and build system:

• Add Windows installer infrastructure
• Add infrastructure to build GIMP.app on OSX

General:

• Lots of bug fixes
• List of translation updates

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