graphic editor release , which continues to refine the functionality and improve the stability of the branch .
In addition to fixing bugs, GIMP 2.10.12 introduces the following improvements:
- The color correction tool using curves (Color / Curves) has been significantly improved, as well as other components in which curve adjustment is used to set parameters (for example, when setting the dynamics of coloring and setting up input devices). When moving an existing reference point, it no longer immediately jumps to the cursor position at the moment the button is pressed, but shifts relative to the current position when the cursor is moved while holding down the mouse button. This behavior allows you to quickly select points by clicking without moving them and then correct the position. When the cursor hits a point or when moving a point, the coordinate indicator now displays the position of the point, not the cursor.
Holding down the Ctrl key while adding a new point provides snapping to the curve and saving the original coordinates along the Y axis, which is convenient when adding new points without shifting the curve. In the interface for changing color curves, the "Input" and "Output" fields have been added for manually entering the numerical coordinates of points. Points on a curve can now be of type smooth ("smooth", the default as before) or corner (corner, allow you to form sharp corners on the curve). Corner points are displayed as a diamond, and smoothed points are displayed as round points.
- Added a new Offset filter (Layer > Transform > Offset) for pixel offset, which can be used to create repeating patterns;
- Added support for layers for TIFF images (when exporting, individual layers are now saved without merging them);
- For the Windows 10 platform, support has been added for fonts installed by an unprivileged user (without obtaining administrator rights);
- An optimization has been made to not change the rendering buffer with each stroke if the colors and pixmap do not change. In addition to speeding up some operations, the change also solved problems with the color dynamics of gradients when the image has a color profile;
- The Dodge/Burn Dodge/Burn tool implements an incremental mode, in which changes are applied progressively following the cursor offset, similar to the incremental mode in the brush, pencil, and eraser drawing tools;
- In the Free Select tool, a selection is created immediately after closing the area with the possibility of subsequent adjustment of the contour (previously, the selection was created only after a separate confirmation with the Enter key or double-click);
- In the move tool (Move), the possibility of the associated movement of two guides at once by dragging them along the intersection point has been added. The change is useful when the guides do not define individual lines, but a point (for example, to define a point of symmetry);
- Fixed many crashes, brush anomalies, color management issues, and artifacts in symmetrical paint mode.
- New releases of GEGL 0.4.16 and babl 0.1.66 libraries have been prepared.
Most notable is the change in the cubic sampling factor, which can be used to perform smoother interpolation. GEGL also updated the memory management code to support conditional heap deallocation using the malloc_trim() call, which encourages more active return of unused memory to the operating system (for example, after editing a large image, memory is now returned to the system much faster).
Source: opennet.ru