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New GIMP Snapshot Released With Minor Fixes, Tweaks

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A new unstable snapshot of image editor ‘The GIMP’ is available for download.

GIMP 2.7.4 is likely to be the last development download ahead of the stable GIMP 2.8 release.

More information, screenshots and download details inside.

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Does ‘The GIMP’ Need A New Name?

This week saw the release of GIMP 2.7.3, complete with a working single window mode.

With GIMP back in the spotlight, I came across a blog post by Nick Ali in which he suggests ‘The GIMP’ should be given new name.

Do you agree?

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GIMP 2.7.3 Released With Working Single Window Mode, Layer Groups, More

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A new unstable snapshot of Image Editing programme ‘The Gimp’ has been released.

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Open source designer Ian ‘Izo’ Cylkowski talks tools, design tips and talent

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Earlier this week Akshat took some time out to chat with open-source fan and graphic designer talented Ian ‘Izo’ Cylkowski about his work, his tools and his thoughts on designing in open-source.

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‘Single window’ GIMP release delayed – but why?

GIMP 2.8, a.k.a. ‘the one with single window mode’, won’t see release on December 26th as planned.

But why? Read on to see.

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Fix ‘blank’ photo prints problem in GIMP

Many users were surprised to find out that, after upgrading to Maverick, GIMP no longer prints out photographs, but instead prints out blank pages. Fortunately, I have found the fix to this, which shall land in Maverick through update-manager in a few weeks.

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Photoshop CS5′s showpiece is a feature GIMP has had for years

The whole internet is buzzing with this at the moment and, well, it’d be crazy for us not to at least mention it. Photoshop product manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes posted a short video on YouTube previewing one of Photoshop CS5′s many new features called ‘Content-Aware Fill‘. It makes “…adding, removing, moving or repairing items faster [...]

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Google Summer of Code: Proposed Ideas for Ubuntu, GNOME, LXDE,

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With Google’s annual Summer of Code poking its ahead around the thinning pages of the calendar armies of Open-Source organizations are once again interning themselves at idea meeting round-tables and entering into proposal speculation to decide which projects they will spend the summer getting paid to work on. Ubuntu Once again our favourite operating system [...]

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Single Window GIMP Coming 27th December 2010

We’ve discussed the singlewindow GIMP before – even telling you how to install it! Now GIMP developer Martin Nordholt has revealed that the ‘target’ release date for version 2.8 (AKA ‘Single Window GIMP) is December the 27th 2010. Wowsh. He is keen to point out in his blog post that this release date is by [...]

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GIMP To Be Removed From Lucid; F-Spot Has Challengers

UDS Wednesday kicked off with a super interesting session; a meeting entitled “Application selection in the default install“. Over three posts I’ll present the main ideas and discussions from these meetings: Whittling the default game selection down, removing GIMP from default installs & what best to use for photo-editing and the decision to potentially include [...]

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Install The Single-Windowed Gimp Preview in Ubuntu [How-to]

Want to try out the new “single window” Gimp? Here’s how! BEAR IN MIND THAT THIS IS IN DEVLOPEMENT SOFTWARE AND NOT DESIGNED FOR EVERYDAY USE. You will also need to remove any exising Gimp install before installing this. PPA: A kind soul is maintaing a PPA with recent git builds of GIMP. Although he [...]

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First Pictures Of Single Window Gimp – It Looks AMAZING.

The first glimpse at the long-awaited (and much-desired) single window Gimp has been posted on GIMP developer Martin Nordholts blog. He updates that progress is coming on well, spurred on in part by the “overwhelmingly positive” reaction the new single window mode has received. Support for multiple images inside one window via tabs (Like Photoshop [...]

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