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Download The Gimp 2.6.8 – 17.39MB (Open Source)

The Gimp 2.6.8 Information
The GIMP is a multiplatform photo manipulation tool. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

* Full suite of painting tools including brushes, a pencil, an airbrush, cloning, etc.
* Tile-based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
* Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high-quality anti-aliasing
* Full Alpha channel support
* Layers and channels
* A procedural database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs, such as Script-Fu
* Advanced scripting capabilities
* Multiple undo/redo (limited only by disk space)
* Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
* File formats supported include GIF, JPEG, PNG, XPM, TIFF, TGA, MPEG, PS, PDF, PCX, BMP and many others
* Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, bezier and intelligent
* Plug-ins that allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters

The Gimp 2.6.8 Change Log

Download The Gimp 2.6.8

Download The Gimp 2.7.0 Beta- 20.97MB (Open Source)

The Gimp 2.7.0 Beta Information
The GIMP is a multiplatform photo manipulation tool. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction.

The Gimp has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

* Full suite of painting tools including brushes, a pencil, an airbrush, cloning, etc.
* Tile-based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
* Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high-quality anti-aliasing
* Full Alpha channel support
* Layers and channels
* A procedural database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs, such as Script-Fu
* Advanced scripting capabilities
* Multiple undo/redo (limited only by disk space)
* Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
* File formats supported include GIF, JPEG, PNG, XPM, TIFF, TGA, MPEG, PS, PDF, PCX, BMP and many others
* Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, bezier and intelligent
* Plug-ins that allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters

The Gimp 2.7.0 Beta Change Log
Changes in GIMP 2.7.0
=====================

UI:

- Change the Text Tool to perform text editing on-canvas (GSoC 2008)
- Add support for tagging GIMP resources such as brushes and allow filtering based on these tags (GSoC 2008)
- Separate the activies of saving an image and exporting it, there is now an ‘File->Export…’ for example
- Port file plug-ins to new export API which gets rid of many annoying export dialogs
- Add a simple parser to size entry widgets, images can be scaled to e.g. “50%” or “2 * 37px + 10in”
- Arrange layer modes into more logical and useful groups
- Added support for rotation of brushes
- Make the Pointer dockable show information about selection position and size
- Get rid of the Tools dockable and move toolbox configuration to Preferences
- Add status bar feedback for keyboard changes to brush paramaters
- Add diagonal guides to the Crop Tool
- New docks are created at the pointer position
- Add support for printing crop marks for images
- Move ‘Text along path’ from tool options to text context menu
- Change default shortcuts for “Shrink Wrap” and “Fit in Window” to Ctrl+R and Ctrl+Shift+R respectively since the previous shortcuts are now used for the save+export feature
- Make Alt+Click on layers in Layers dockable create a selection from the layer
- Allow to specify written language in the Text Tool

Plug-ins:

- Map the ‘Linear Dodge’ layer mode in PSD files to the ‘Addition’ layer mode in GIMP
- Add JPEG2000 load plug-in
- Add X11 mouse cursor plug-in
- Add support for loading 16bit (RGB565) raw data
- Add palette exporter for CSS, PHP, Python, txt and Java, accessed through palette context menu
- Add plug-in API for getting image URI, for manipulating size of text layers, for getting and setting text layer hint, and for unified export dialog appearance

Data:

- Add large variants of round brushes and remove duplicate and useless brushes
- Add “FG to BG (Hardedge)” gradient

GEGL:

- Port the projection code, the code that composes a single image from a stack of layers, to GEGL
- Port layer modes to GEGL
- Port the floating selection code to GEGL
- Refactor the layer stack code to prepare for layer groups later
- Prepare better and more intuitive handling of the floating selection
- Add File->Debug->Show Image Graph that show the GEGL graph of an image
- Allow to benchmark projection performance with File->Debug->Benchmark Projection
- When using GEGL for the projection, use CIELCH instead of HSV/HSL for color based layer modes

Core:

- Make painting strokes Catmull-Rom Spline interpolated
- Add support for arbitrary affine transforms of brushes
- Add support for brush dynamics to depend on tilt
- Add aspect ratio to brush dynamics
- Add infrastructure to soon support vector layers (GSoC 2006)
- Rearrange legacy layer mode code to increase maintainability
- Drop support for the obsolete GnomeVFS file-uri backend
- Allow to dump keyboard shortucts ith File->Debug->Dump Keyboard Shortcuts
- Prepare data structures for layer groups
- Remove gimprc setting “menu-mnemonics”, “GtkSettings:gtk-enable-mnemonics” shall be used instead
- Remove “transient-docks” gimprc setting, the ‘Utility window’ hint and a sane window manager does a better job
- Remove “web-browser” gimprc setting and use gtk_show_uri() instead

General:

- Changed licence to (L)GPLv3+
- Use the automake 1.11 feature ’silent build rules’ by default
- Lots of bug fixes and cleanup

Download The Gimp 2.7.0 Beta

Download The Gimp 2.6.7 – 16.09MB (Open Source)

The Gimp 2.6.7 Information
The GIMP is a multiplatform photo manipulation tool. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction.
The GIMP has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

The GIMP Features:

* Full suite of painting tools including brushes, a pencil, an airbrush, cloning, etc.
* Tile-based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
* Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high-quality anti-aliasing
* Full Alpha channel support
* Layers and channels
* A procedural database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs, such as Script-Fu
* Advanced scripting capabilities
* Multiple undo/redo (limited only by disk space)
* Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
* File formats supported include GIF, JPEG, PNG, XPM, TIFF, TGA, MPEG, PS, PDF, PCX, BMP and many others
* Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, bezier and intelligent
* Plug-ins that allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters

The Gimp 2.6.7 Change Log
* Bugs fixed:

591017 – Tablet pan is not working as fast as it should
577581 – Crashes when using any colors tool/function on Windows
589667 – GIMP crashes when clicking GEGL Operation on Windows
569833 – file-jpeg-save erroneous with small quality values
590638 – Changing palettes from list to grid view loses “locked to dock”
status
589674 – “Send by Email” does not update “Filename”
589674 – “Send by Email” does not update “Filename”
586851 – Transparent BMP files fail to load
589205 – help-browser uses deprecated (and sometimes broken) webkit call
582821 – ‘Sphere Designer’ does not reset correctly…
570353 – first time open of .svg file ignores the requested units
555777 – Export to MNG animation fails
577301 – Dithering with transparency is broken for “positioned” method
493778 – metadata plug-in crashes on some images
567466 – PNG comment not found if more than 1 tEXt chunks
585665 – Exporting to PSD with a blank text layer creates a corrupt file
586316 – Levels tool does not adjust output levels correctly if input
levels are changed
569661 – Import from PDF throws errors when entering resolution in
pixels per millimetre
567262 – Black pixels appear in “Spread” filter preview
554658 – Path Dialog: Path preview pics not to see constantly
167604 – gimp_gradient_get_color_at() may return out-of-bounds values
567393 – Rectangle select tool size shrinks to 0 if size is larger than
the image and the up or down arrow is pressed
587543 – crash when invoking certain actions by keyboard shortcut
563029 – Closing maximized image doesn’t restore document window size
585488 – Perspective transformation on a layer with a mask causes crash
586008 – GIMP crashes when right-click canceling a drawing action initiated
outside layer boundaries
584345 – when printing, the number of copies should be reset to 1
557061 – Alpha to Logo
472644 – Rotate with clipping crops the whole layer
577575 – transform tool fills underlying extracted area wrongly
555738 – Image display is wrong after undoing canvas size
577024 – help-browser plugin crashes when used with webkit 1.1.3
555025 – Action GEGL box widgets weirdness

Download The Gimp 2.6.7

So you’ve been reading about Linux on ghacks for a few months now and you’ve noticed plenty of screenshots or images of applications in action. Now it’s time you found out just how those images are taken. No it’s not magic, but in one instance it’s ImageMagick. Actually there are a few ways to take screenshots in Linux, ranging from a simple keypress to a command line tool.

In this article you will learn how to take screenshots with the help of The Gimp, the GNOME menu, the Print Screen button, and ImageMagick. Each way has its advantages, so it’ll be up to you to decide which method suits you best. With that said, lets’ dive in head first.

ImageMagick

I wanted to start with this method because it can be a little flaky. The primary issue is that ImageMagick has trouble with Compiz. If you’re not running Compiz, you won’t have any issues with this method. Otherwise you’d be best served to skip down to The GIMP.

One of the benefits of this method is you can use it to grab screenshots automatically. You could even set up a cron job to take screen shots at specific times, or log into a machine remotely and snap a shot. I won’t get into the “why” you would want to do this – decide that yourself.

The basic command for taking a snapshot with ImageMagick is:

import FILENAME.png

Pretty simple. The only catch with the above command is that you will have to specify what portion of the screen to grab. When you issue that command a cross-hair will appear which you click and drag to select what portion of the screen to grab. There is an easier way. If you want to take this screenshot without interaction you issue the command:

import -window root FILENAME.png

What the above command does is take a screenshot of the root window (that’s the entire screen basically.) The screenshot will be saved (in the case of the example above) as FILENAME.png

Print screen

This one is simple (and not much different than using the GNOME menu) you press the Print Screen button. When you do a window will open (see Figure 1) asking you to give the file a name, decide on a destination, and click save. You can save the screenshot in .jpg, .png (default), .tiff, .gif, and .bmp formats. From this same window you can also copy the image to the clipboard for later use.

GNOME Menu

If you look in the Accessories subment of the GNOME Applications menu you will see the entry “Take Screenshot”. If you click on this the same window will open that opened when you hit the Print Screen key. This works in the exact same way. If, for some reason, you have a different keyboard mapping or a Print Screen key that does not work, this menu entry is sure to work.

The GIMP

Figure 1

The GIMP is my standard means for snapping screenshots. Within The GIMP click on the File menu and then click on the Create submenu. From within the Create menu click the Screenshot entry which will open up the screenshot dialog (see Figure 1).

There are three types of screenshots you can take:

Single Window: This will grab only the window you click on after you click the Snap button.

Entire Screen: This will grab the entire screen after you click the Snap button.

Select a Region: This allows you to select the portion of the screen you want to grab after you click snap.

You can also configure a delay (in seconds) which will allow you to open up menus or take an action to grab.

When using The GIMP for screenshots you will have to save the image manually. But you can also edit the image before you save it.

Final thoughts

As you can see there are a number of ways to grab a screenshot in the Linux desktop. Each method is simple and should have you snagging screenshots all day long.