Adobe does not love anybody or anything but money, they don’t give a damn about Photoshop as long as people are paying for it, same as all companies, none of them really give a shit about what they do, they just pretend to as part of their PR and promotion of their products and services. So Yeah, I believe some of the problems of Photoshop and other Adobe software competitors are a result of espionage. Not paranoid, this stuff happens a lots, all you need a is profit motive, and yes Adobe has it. It would be easy with a lot of money, say budget of about $1 million I could really mess up an open source project and get everything re-situated to better suit it’s paid competitors. Corperations with a lot to lose do it all the time. You know like a mixture of propaganda and miss information campaigns and infiltration and sabotage of the software. Change perspective of images in The GIMPĪnybody heard that Adobe paid people to attack free competitors, I mean it is worth millions for Adobe to be sure there is no slick alternative to their software which is now subscription based.The new theme looks really nice but if it is not your cup of tea, you can switch to the old theme and icon theme easily in the preferences to restore the old look of the application. It brings plenty of new features and improvements to GIMP. GIMP 2.10 is a massive update that was six years in the making. You can access the full release notes here and check out the roadmap to see what will come next. Plugins to edit Exif, XMP, IPTC, GPS, and DICOM metadata.GIMP 2.10 can read TIFF, PNG, PSD and FITS files with "up to 32-bit per channel precision".More than 80 plugins are now GEGL-based filters which offer several improvements.Digital photography improvements (new GEGL-based filters such as Exposure, Shadows-Highlights, High-pass).Digital painting improvements (support for canvas rotation and flipping, smudge tool updates).Text tool supports advanced input methods for CJK and other non-western languages.All colors tools are GEGL-based filters.Foreground select tool supports subpixel selections.Blend tool was renamed to Gradient tool.New unified transform tool to make multiple transformations.Compositing options for layers are exposed to the user.Two groups of blending modes and new blend modes.You find color management options under Edit > Preferences > Color Management. The feature was available as a plugin only in previous versions. The developers integrated color management functionality natively in GIMP 2.10. Note that you need to enable "Use OpenCL" under Edit > Preferences > System Resources to take advantage of some of the features. image editing in linear RGB color space.GEGL is used for all tile management in GIMP 2.10 which is a prerequisite for introducing non-destructive editing in GIMP 3.2. GIMP's move to using the image processing library GEGL continues. Tip: if you want the old look, set the theme to system and the icon theme to color icons GIMP 2.10 supports four different icon sizes that you may set in the preferences. The default icon size is based on the screen resolution but you may change that to set a custom size. If you don't like the symbolic icon theme you may switch to another under Preferences > Interface > Icon Theme. Icons are separate from the theme so that you may switch icons or the theme without affecting the other. Just select Edit > Preferences > Interface > Theme to switch between the four different themes. Next to dark, there is a gray, light and system theme available that you may enable. GIMP 2.10 includes four different themes that you can switch between. The image editor has a new dark theme that supports symbolic icons and HiDPI support. The very first thing that existing GIMP users notice when they start GIMP 2.10 is that the interface has changed. GIMP 2.10 takes a while to open when you run it after installation but the loading is faster on consecutive starts. If you don't need Python scripting, disable that too to reduce the size by 31 Megabytes. Tip: select customize during installation to disable the installation of Translations which take a whopping 277 Megabytes of extra space. The image editor has a size of roughly 560 Megabytes installed on Windows if you only install the core editor. Users may download the latest GIMP release from the official project website where it is offered as a direct download and torrent. GIMP, an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program, is a free alternative to programs such as Adobe Photoshop or Corel Photo Paint that is especially popular in the GNU/Linux world. The new version of GIMP is the first major release after version 2.8 of the software was released nearly six years ago.
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