There is a new version of the The Gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program) on the horizon. Version 2.4, due to be released this month, has lots of cool new stuff:
- Foreground selection tool, to help cutting people out of photos and placing them with Ghandi and/or Hitler.
- New interpolation method called Lanczos. The best they’ve had until now was Cubic, which apprently sucks (this will please King Andy)
- Reorganisation of buttons, labels and dialogs in accordance with the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines, to make things easier for us humans to use.
- Colour management! At last! It now supports ICC profiles, though you can’t do much advanced stuff, like converting between profiles. Early days.
- All filters now support previews
- Lots of little bug fixes and other improvements
See the Changelog for more geeky details. And some screen-shots.