Download The GIMP 2.3.1

The development team behind The GIMP released another intermediate version of its image editing program a few days ago and gave it jersey number 2.3.1; this version, including bug fixes and new features, will eventually form version 2.4 of The GIMP. The GIMP, short for The GNU Image Manipulation Program, is considered by many to be the open source counterpart of Adobe Photoshop. This time there is no version for Windows available. The changelog shows at least the following changes:

Changes in GIMP 2.3.1

• allow to copy and paste SVG between GIMP and other applications
• added a utility for testing and debugging clipboard operations
• more work on the new vectors PDB API
• made screen edges active in the image display in fullscreen mode
• made file and color selection dialogs transient to their parent windows
• moved browser widget from Procedure Browser plug-in to libgimpwidgets
• allow more search types in the Procedure Browser
• reduced size of the Colors dockable by moving the hex entry down
• added object properties to GimpColorArea and GimpColorButton
• changed default for RGB->Indexed conversion to not to any dithering
• allow to paste a new image using Ctrl-V on the toolbox
• show previews of dash presets in Stroke Options dialog
• Escape key cancels the window selection in the Screenshot plug-in
• allow to operate the Brightness Contrast tool by clicking and dragging on the canvas
• improved Sample Points dockable
• added first draft of new align tool
• turned image and drawable combo boxes in libgimpui into real widgets
• further improved Python bindings
• nicer DND icons for viewables
• allow to hide the button-bar found at the bottom of most dockables
• turned font selection in libgimpui into a real widget
• added support for BMP files with alpha channel (RGBA)
• bug fixes and code cleanup

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