Meet the GIMP!

David gowers wrote a comment that I pull to the front page.

Another exciting thing that will be in 2.6 (and the next 2.5 release) is the hybrid polygon/free select tool! It is truly a thing of beauty, the way you can edit it as you go, easily rotate or scale any freehand section by moving an endpoint, or edit a polygonal segment just by moving an endpoint — and no longer requiring the entire selection to be completed in one stroke is also great! It might be an interesting topic to cover as part of a future show.

Anyone who is curious, also, I strongly recommend you get a SVN checkout of the latest GIMP and try it! It’s worth the effort.

I’ll do that - sometime next week.

Gimpusers has a bit about it. Keep your fingers crossed or thumbs pressed, depending on cultural background….

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I have some very nice news about the upcoming version 2.6 of GIMP. Exclusively for Meet the GIMP! before it will hit the mailing lists tomorrow.

The rest of the show covers toning monochrome images and includes a new feature - the Blunder Alert Overlayâ„¢. The image here is a tritone of blue in the shadows, red in the midtones and orange in the highlights.

The slideshow for the monochrome challenge and the fully randomized drawing of the winner will be on next week. I hadn’t looked on my calendar when I set the 31th of March as the final date. Next challenge will end on Tuesday, then I have a week to make the stuff ready.

I have some links for you:

• rore’s split tone example from flickr
• The GIMP users group discussion there
• Duotone in Wikipedia
• Gimpforum.de has the screenshot, not gimpusers. Sorry for the mix up.

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