Tech GIMP 2.8 (STABLE) FINALLY AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD!!!

[Richard B Riddick]

After more than two years of development, GIMP 2.8 stable is finally available for download. The new version brings the long-awaited single-window mode (optional; you can still use multiple windows) as well as some other cool new features like on-canvas text editing, multi-column dock windows, a new set of brushes and many other features and improvements.

New features in GIMP 2.8 (stable):

• Single Window Mode: you can finally use a single main window instead of overlapping floating windows. This is optional and can be turned on from the Windows menu.
• On-canvas text editing: editing text is not performed in a separate window anymore.
• Multi-column dock windows which makes the GIMP UI a lot more customizable
• Improved screen real estate for dockable dialogs
• Using "Save" now saves the file in the GIMP XCF format and it can't be used for saving PNG and other files. For non-XCF file types, you now have to use the "Export" menu entry.
• You can now create layer groups which can be organized in tree-like structures
• Brush system and tool preset improvements
• You can now tag brushes and patterns
• New slider widgets
• A new set of default brushes and tool presets from Ramon Miranda (from GIMP Paint Studio)
• Brushes can now be rotated
• New open window navigation which displays a small preview for each tab
• Tools rendering on canvas have been ported to Cairo to provide smooth antialiased graphics
• A new "Lock Pixels" feature
• Support for JPEG2000 and loading 16bit (RGB565) raw data.
• Export color values to CSS, PHP, Java, Python or plain text
• Core integration of the graph-based GEGL library
• Export to PDF
• New tool: Cage Transform which makes it possible to easily warp parts of objects using an adjustable user-defined polygonal frame
• Many others

Download here: http://www.gimp.org/

Article: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/05/gimp-28-stable-finally-available-for.html