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The GIMP's bad news could be good news

Posted by the_doctor on · 2 comments
TechRepublic; By Jack Wallen 		Mail this story
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This month, the GIMP lost its User eXperience (UX) maintainer.

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maxxedout ·
>> the single most powerful open-source vector image editor faltered.

Gimp is a Raster image editor.

As a photographer who uses Gimp every day, on Linux, I was not happy when they changed the sliders in the Tool Options. However, I would rather see Gimp add support for 16 - 24bit color, Non Destructive Editing, Better Selection Tools and support for conversion to CMYK. It's my understanding that some of this will be in the next major release.

If you are looking to add filters, install G'MIC http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmic/
Steven_Rosenber ·
Coincidentally, the single most powerful open-source vector graphics editor, Inkscape, has also had a major upgrade recently: http://fedoramagazine.org/inkscape-0-91-released/

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