GIMP 2.4 preview

http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/10/23/gimp-24-preview/

by Nicu Buculei


Fedora 8 test releases have a surprise for all users interested in
graphics: a release candidate for the new GIMP 2.4, meaning the final
version will get the stable GIMP 2.41. This is exciting news, as the
previous major release, GIMP 2.2, is several years old, and a lot of new
features were added in the meantime.


In this article, we'll take a look at some of the most visible new
features, but beyond them, there are tons of less visible things: speedups,
a decrease in memory consumption, better importing and exporting, a better
print plugin, better EXIF support, changed scripting language for plugins,
zoomable preview for plugins, many bug fixes, and more.


If you'd like to see a more practical application of these tools, take a
look at my article on improving portraits with GIMP.


Note: You can click on any image in this article to see a larger version.