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11-04-2008, 09:20 AM
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Wise Old Owl
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Gimp 2.5 : Reaching New Heights.
 The GIMP team announced today the first release from the 2.5 development series.
New Features : -
The most notable change in GIMP 2.5 happened under the hood. The color tools in GIMP have been ported to GEGL. This does not yet have much impact on the user experience but it is a first and important step forward. With full GEGL integration GIMP will finally get support for higher color depths, more color spaces and eventually non-destructive editing.
With the help of the UI team, the Toolbox menu has been merged into the image window. GIMP now always keeps an image window open and the default configuration treats the toolbox and docks as utility windows.
An often requested tool for simple polygonal selections has been added and work has started to improve the text tool. Please see the NEWS file on developer.gimp.org for a more detailed list of changes.
Download : GIMP - Downloads
Development : GIMP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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11-04-2008, 09:24 AM
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Re: Gimp 2.5 : Reaching New Heights.
Sweet. Hope they support CMYK soon.
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11-04-2008, 09:34 AM
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Re: Gimp 2.5 : Reaching New Heights.
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With the help of the UI team, the Toolbox menu has been merged into the image window. GIMP now always keeps an image window open and the default configuration treats the toolbox and docks as utility windows.
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^^that seems like a valid reason to update soon. whenever i use gimp th toolbox menu always gets in the way.have to keep moving it all round the screen.
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11-04-2008, 09:38 AM
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Re: Gimp 2.5 : Reaching New Heights.
Indeed, this is now better, if not as good as having a background window on all the time just like any other editor out there.
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11-04-2008, 09:41 AM
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Think Zen.
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Re: Gimp 2.5 : Reaching New Heights.
^But the screenshot shows no difference between what was previously there,
can someone point me to a screenshot in which the toolkit is embedded in the image window?
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11-04-2008, 09:44 AM
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Re: Gimp 2.5 : Reaching New Heights.
Its not the toolkit being merged into the image window, its the menus that the toolkit window had. Check the Window screenshot above and you will see no menus in the tool window, all menus have hence been shifted to the Image window.
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11-04-2008, 09:49 AM
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Think Zen.
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Re: Gimp 2.5 : Reaching New Heights.
^Ah, I see. But having the toolkit in a seperate window was my problem,
IMO, an MDI interface like Inkscape/Photoshop is much better.
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11-04-2008, 09:53 AM
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Re: Gimp 2.5 : Reaching New Heights.
Yeah but when you complain about that they ask you to go the hotkey way 
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11-04-2008, 09:56 AM
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Think Zen.
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Re: Gimp 2.5 : Reaching New Heights.
^Heh, There are quite a few radical designs at the gimp ui brainstrom blog,
Check them : http://gimp-brainstorm.blogspot.com/...ingle%20window
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28-06-2008, 11:33 AM
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Re: Gimp 2.5 : Reaching New Heights.
Is Gimp 2.5.1 available for download in Windows XP.
If yes provide the link for download.
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28-06-2008, 12:00 PM
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Re: Gimp 2.5 : Reaching New Heights.
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28-06-2008, 12:20 PM
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"Aal Izz Well"
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Re: Gimp 2.5 : Reaching New Heights.
Thanks for the link.
In windows section, it doesn't provide link to download Gimp 2.5 so I think it is not available in Windows XP.
Plz correct me if I am wrong.
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28-06-2008, 12:30 PM
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Re: Gimp 2.5 : Reaching New Heights.
Yes. You are right.
Windows version is not available.
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28-06-2008, 12:42 PM
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Re: Gimp 2.5 : Reaching New Heights.
AFAIK the Final release will be Gimp 2.6 not 2.5......All those 2.5.x releases will be development releases, so they may not be available for Windows.
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28-06-2008, 12:44 PM
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Re: Gimp 2.5 : Reaching New Heights.
@gagan
Thanks.
Is there any release date for Gimp 2.6
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Last edited by Krazzy Warrior; 28-06-2008 at 12:44 PM.
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28-06-2008, 04:47 PM
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Re: Gimp 2.5 : Reaching New Heights.
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Those are some good interfaces. Which interface do you prefer ?
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28-06-2008, 05:02 PM
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Re: Gimp 2.5 : Reaching New Heights.
Am I the only one who likes the current multi-window approach of Gimp. The only annoying part is the config dialogs appearing behind the Image window (Gimp 2.4.5). Otherwise, I find the interface to be perfectly fine.
Even Photoshop has similar UI layout on its Mac version. Anyway, I'm not an expert artist.
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28-06-2008, 06:23 PM
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Re: Gimp 2.5 : Reaching New Heights.
Wow thats awesome, open-source rocks.
seems this move will shake the foundation of photoshop.
what about memory usage????
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29-06-2008, 05:28 PM
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Re: Gimp 2.5 : Reaching New Heights.
Not in the Ubuntu repos yet 
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29-06-2008, 05:38 PM
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Re: Gimp 2.5 : Reaching New Heights.
I don't think it will be in for Hardy.
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29-06-2008, 08:38 PM
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Re: Gimp 2.5 : Reaching New Heights.
Its development release and it won't be in the repos. I mean 2.5.x // You have to compile it 
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30-06-2008, 11:49 AM
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Re: Gimp 2.5 : Reaching New Heights.
The only thing I missed in GIMP was Polygon Selection and Magnetic Lasso.. Hats off to GIMP developers for adding Polygon Selection.. Thanks Dark Star for the info
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02-07-2008, 08:46 PM
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Re: Gimp 2.5 : Reaching New Heights.
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Its development release and it won't be in the repos. I mean 2.5.x // You have to compile it |
plz clearly say what u mean by that.
Did u mean to say we can install gimp 2.5.x
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02-07-2008, 09:44 PM
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Wise Old Owl
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Re: Gimp 2.5 : Reaching New Heights.
Yes you can install Gimp 2.5.x Unstable but it will be difficult to find distro packages.. You have to install from Source 
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