We already have Gimp 2.10 available and we can install it with Flatpak

gimp

Gimp is a digital image editing program in bitmap form, both drawings and photographs, is suitable for a wide variety of handling operations of images, including image processing, composition and construction of images

Gimp is a program totally free and free and is part of the GNU project, this editor has tools that are used for retouching and editing images, drawing free shapes, resizing, cropping, making photomontages, converting to different image formats, and other more specialized tasks.

Besides that Gimp is designed to be enhanced with plugins and extensions to do almost anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest work to the most complex image processing to be easily converted into scenarios.

One of Gimp's strengths is its free availability from many sources for many operating systems. Most GNU Linux distributions include GIMP as a standard application. GIMP is also available for other operating systems such as Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X.

What's new in GIMP

Recently the new version 2.10 was officially released of this great program, because after almost 6 years of arduous effort and test launches, this version was achieved.

GIMP 2.10 brings us news at the forefront of the technologies used, since continue to make use of GTK2 libraries. GTK3 is expected to be used for GIMP 3.x, coming at a different time.

What is put on the plate, however, is no less remarkable: Among the new features are a dashboard to monitor the use of system resources by the program, a new debugging window in case of accidents

Without further ado, its developers share the following:

The long awaited GIMP 2.10.0 has finally arrived! This is a great release, containing the result of 6 long years of work (GIMP 2.8 was released almost exactly 6 years ago!) By a small but dedicated core of contributors.

gimp-2.10

Within the new changes that make up this release we find:

  • Image processing almost completely ported to GEGL, enabling high bit depth processing, multi-threaded pixel processing and hardware accelerated, and more.
  • Un complete set of painting toolssuch as brushes, pencil, airbrush, cloning, etc.
  • Mosaic-based memory management, so image size is limited only by available disk space
  • Sub-pixel sampling for all painting tools for high-quality smoothing
  • Full alpha channel support for transparent work
  • Layers and channels
  • A database of procedures for calling internal GIMMP functions from external programs, such as Script-Fu
  • Advanced Scenario Capabilities
  • Transform tools including rotation, scaling, warping, and inversion
  • Support for a wide range of file formats, including GIF, JPEG, PNG, XPM, TIFF, TGA, MPEG, PS, PDF, PCX, BMP and many others
  • Selection tools, including rectangle, ellipse, free choice, selection and smart scissors
  • Extras that allow you to easily add new file types and new effect filters.
  • Viewing and editing metadata for Exif, XMP, IPTC and DICOM.
  • HiDPI basic support: icon size automatic or selected by the user.

How to install GIMP 2.10 on Linux?

Gimp is included in most Linux distributions, but since the release of this new version was recently, you will not be able to find it immediately within the official repositories of these.

For this Gimp developers offer Linux users to install this new version through Flatpak

To install Gimp 2.10 with Flatpak it is necessary that your system has this technology.

We just have to open a terminal and execute the following command:

flatpak install https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.gimp.GIMP.flatpakref

They will only have to wait for the application to be downloaded and installed on their system, the time it may take depends largely on your internet connection.


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