Mailing the story:

"Source Size: 273.3 Megabytes Compiled Size: 84.9 Megabytes" ... "`Single Window` mode in the current development version of GIMP is so named because it allows you to attach GIMP's docks to the main window. It does not force you to have one singular window" ... "Lately, people have been speaking highly of Adobe Photoshop over this video showing what Bryan O'Neil Hughes calls "Content-Aware Fill" which is a technique for synthesizing texture."