“Despite its relatively obscure version number, GIMP 2.9.2, released recently, represents a major leap forward for the popular image editing suite,” Scott Gilbertson writes for The Register. “Like all odd-numbered GIMP releases, 2.9.2 is considered a technical preview, but the features here will form the base of the stable release GIMP 2.10.”
“This release has a lot of under-the-hood changes – in particular this largely completes the move to the Generic Graphics Library, better know as GEGL,” Gilbertson writes. “GEGL is GIMP’s ‘new’ image processing engine and the project has been slowly incorporating GEGL code for quite a few releases. In fact, while the GEGL in GIMP still gets referred to as ‘new,’ the project itself began life in 2000 and GIMP has been slowly porting over to GEGL since 2007.”
“GIMP 2.9.2 is considered a technical preview. Unlike some past previews, though, I’ve found this one to be rock solid in my testing,” Gilbertson writes. “That said, don’t try to do production work in this release. GIMP has a ‘when it’s ready’ release policy, but much of what’s due in 2.10 is already in 2.9.2, so hopefully an official release of 2.10 won’t be too far in the future.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Having long ago moved to Pixelmator and dabbling in Affinity Photo (and liking it), we haven’t look at GIMP in awhile.
Anybody using the latest GIMP? If so, what’s your verdict?