graphic editor release , which continues to refine the functionality and improve the stability of the branch .
A package is available for installation in the format (package format until updated).
Besides fixing GIMP 2.10.14 introduces the following improvements:
- Added the ability to view and edit content outside the canvas. The “View” menu offers a new “Show All” mode, which, when turned on, makes all pixels outside the canvas border visible. The area outside the canvas border is perceived as transparent by default, but in the settings you can set the fill to a regular color, similar to filling the canvas. You can also enable the borders of the canvas to be marked with a dotted red line. Outside the canvas, operations such as color determination, restoration, filling, and transformation now operate. For example, you can crop the image to capture an area outside the canvas, or use a mask from the outside of the image to restore the image inside the canvas. Support for selecting areas outside the canvas border is expected in a future release;
- The transformation tools have a new mode that allows you to automatically expand the canvas if the result of the transformation does not fit within its current boundaries. For example, if, when rotating a selected area, a corner goes beyond the border of the current canvas, then the canvas border will be shifted. To activate the mode, you can select “Adjust clipping” in the tool settings panel or through the menu
"Image > Transform > Arbitrary Rotation"; - Filters can now extend beyond the boundaries of a layer if the result of their application does not fit into the original layer. For example, the shadow created by the Drop Shadow filter is no longer cut off along the layer border, but automatically increases the size of the layer. You can return the old behavior through the “Clipping” setting in the filter parameters dialog;
- Added the ability to edit invisible layers (switch with an eye image in the layer settings window);
- Work has been done to simplify the work with the Free Select tool. By analogy with other tools, to quickly move and copy an area, without fixing the selection, you can use the mouse while holding down the Alt key;
- The Foreground Select utility has a new preview mode that allows you to evaluate the resulting mask in shades of gray;
- An option has been added to the Feather Selection tool to treat the area bordering the edge of the image as an extension of the selected object that extends beyond the edge. When this option is enabled, no feathering is applied to the selection boundaries that coincide with the image boundaries;
- A “Normal Map” filter has been added to the package for generating normal maps from height maps. Provides direct access to several new GEGL filters, including Bayer Matrix, Linear Sinusoid, Newsprint and Mean Curvature Blur. Neon, Stretch Contrast and Oilify filters have been replaced with
to analogues using the GEGL library. 27 old filters have been ported to use GEGL buffers. The Van Gogh filter adds support for color depth up to 32 bits per channel; - Improved support for HEIF, TIFF and PDF formats. HEIF images, when built with libheif 1.4.0+, now support ICC color profiles when loading and exporting. When importing TIFF images, you can now choose how to process undefined channels. When exporting PDF, export of text layers within layer groups has been adjusted;
- Improved loading of corrupted XCF files. If an error is detected in a layer or channel, the download is no longer immediately interrupted, but an attempt is made to load data from other layers and channels;
- Improved performance on the macOS platform. Added support for macOS 10.15 "Catalina". The generation of nightly builds for Windows has been added to the continuous integration system;
- The GEGL and babl libraries have been ported to use the Meson build system and transferred to use the Gitlab CI continuous integration system. GEGL has improved the efficiency of parallelizing operations involving different CPU cores. Instead of the old "gcut" video editor, a new built-in interface has been proposed. By changing the interpolation method, the quality of HD video playback has been improved and caching of rendered video frames has been added. To move content into collections, the ability to use external file managers has been added. IN Added support for the Yu'v' color model (CIE 1976 UCS) and ICC profiles with grayscale colors. Some linear-to-float conversions involve AVX2 instructions. Reworked code for handling transparency.
- New project presented , which develops a simple library for rendering and rasterizing vector images, using methods reminiscent of rendering contexts in Cairo and HTML5 canvas. The library is very compact and can be used on 32-bit ESP32 and ARM-CortexM4 microcontrollers. The library supports various pixel and multi-component formats.
Among future plans, there is an intention to release a test release of GIMP 2.99.2 in the next few months, which will be formed in preparation for a future release , notable for its significant cleanup of the codebase and transition to GTK3+. Also project activity , fork of the graphics editor GIMP (the creators of the fork consider the use of the word gimp unacceptable due to its negative connotations). The first beta release of Glimpse is scheduled to be published in mid-November or early December.
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