The GIMP 2.7.0 Beta – Free Open Source Image Editor

September 3 2009, 3:00am

The GIMP 2.7.0 Beta (Windows, Open Source, 20.9MB) [alt DL] is a multiplatform photo manipulation tool. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction. Also available for Linux. Changes: Change the Text Tool to perform text editing on-canvas Add support for tagging GIMP resources such as brushes and allow filtering based on these tags Separate the activies of saving an image and exporting it, there is now an 'File->Export...' for example Port file plug-ins to new export API which gets rid of many annoying export dialogs Add a simple parser to size entry widgets, images can be scaled to e.g. "50%" or "2 * 37px + 10in" Arrange layer modes into more logical and useful groups Added support for rotation of brushes Make the Pointer dockable show information about selection position and size Get rid of the Tools dockable and move toolbox configuration to Preferences Add status bar feedback for keyboard changes to brush parameters Add diagonal guides to the Crop Tool New docks are created at the pointer position Add support for printing crop marks for images Move 'Text along path' from tool options to text context menu Change default shortcuts for "Shrink Wrap" and "Fit in Window" to Ctrl+R and Ctrl+Shift+R respectively since the previous shortcuts are now used for the save+export feature Make Alt+Click on layers in Layers dockable create a selection from the layer Allow to specify written language in the Text Tool IceRocket Tags: gimp, image, editor, windows open source