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The Rumor Mill: Gimp 2.6 in July?
April 27th, 2008 by Rolf

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

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  1. Serge Gielkens
    April 28th, 2008 at 12:23

    Wow, that’s exciting news. It will become difficult to keep up with their pace ;-) Keeping fingers crossed.

  2. jeffegg2
    April 28th, 2008 at 13:25

    2nd Wow! Even an unstable release would be fun to play with!!!

  3. Rolf
    April 28th, 2008 at 16:11

    I have played with 2.5.0 – not much new to discover. Most of the stuff seems to be happening under the hood.

  4. Max
    April 29th, 2008 at 23:13

    Hm, somehow I don’t understand the excitement about 2.6 – as already said, most of the changes are under the hood. I don’t know if I will even upgrade.

  5. David gowers
    April 30th, 2008 at 01:40

    Most paint programs / picture processors do not correct for gamma, which in most pictures is 2.2. This means, for example, that intensity #128 is not actually halfway between 0 and 255 in brightness — #186 is the intensity that is halfway between 0 and 255 brightness. When performing color correction and adjustment, absence of gamma-correction can result in burntout highlights, unreasonable degradation of smooth gradients, and uneven darkening.
    (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_correction for details)

    If you use levels, curves, etc.. color adjustment tools, you will find that with GEGL (as used in GIMP 2.5+) the result is significantly better, because gamma correction is properly performed.

    For this reason, I recommend that you try 2.6 when it comes out.
    I assure you that gamma-corrected operation makes MUCH more sense and is far easier to obtain a predictable and pleasant result with. To be fair, as Alexandre mentioned once, it is currently slow.

    If GEGL-based scaling is implemented before 2.6, then also, scaling down will preserve details better, without the characteristic slight darkening around the edges that betrays non-gamma-corrected scaling.

    Lastly, work is being done on reducing UI footprint, which is good news for people with small screens or many docks.

    It’s certainly worth trying.

  6. Bob Kovacs
    May 13th, 2008 at 16:25

    So when is the user interface going to change?. This is one of the major complaints of Gimp vs Photoshop CS3.

  7. Rolf
    May 13th, 2008 at 22:38

    There is an ongoing discussion about the user interface. It will improve, but it will not become a copy of Photoshop.

    What is your biggest complaint? Except that it is different, of course…. ;-)

  8. Bob Kovacs
    May 14th, 2008 at 15:28

    That I have to constantly minimize and maximize the tools windows when I edit.

  9. Rolf
    May 14th, 2008 at 18:01

    Why that? Just have the tools window next to the image – like I do in the podcast.

  10. andotyjazz
    May 20th, 2008 at 17:28

    This is really exciting specially if GEGL will be integrated! Would it be possible for the GEGL to be integrated on 2.6?

  11. Rolf
    May 20th, 2008 at 18:17

    GEGL is in 2.5 – so it will be in 2.6. The main work done in the way to 2.6 is integrating GEGL – not extending the functionality.

  12. David gowers
    May 24th, 2008 at 17:03

    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.

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