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[gimp-web/testing] More content in the v2.9.2 news + accompanying screenshots

commit 2d9e62b00eefcf4b984f513224c6034135cce86c
Author: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>
Date:   Sat Nov 28 00:22:20 2015 +0300

    More content in the v2.9.2 news + accompanying screenshots

 content/news/2015-11-26 GIMP 2.9.2.md              |   56 ++++++++++++++-----
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diff --git a/content/news/2015-11-26 GIMP 2.9.2.md b/content/news/2015-11-26 GIMP 2.9.2.md
index b4d5bfe..d4705b0 100644
--- a/content/news/2015-11-26 GIMP 2.9.2.md     
+++ b/content/news/2015-11-26 GIMP 2.9.2.md     
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ Status: draft
 
 We are excited to announce the first development release of GIMP in the 2.9.x series. It's another major 
milestone towards making GIMP a state-of-the art image editing application for graphic designers, 
photographers, illustrators, and scientists.
 
+The new version is already available in the [Downloads](/downloads/) section.
+
 ## GEGL Port
 
 [GEGL](http://gegl.org/) is GIMP's new image processing engine. The GEGL project was originally launched in 
2000 by several developers from visual effects company Rhythm&Hues who needed a versatile image editor for 
movie production.
@@ -28,7 +30,10 @@ While a few advanced features of GEGL such as non-destructive editing are planne
 
 Additionally, native support for PNG, TIFF, PSD, and FITS files in GIMP has been upgraded to read and write 
16/32bit per color channel data.
 
-<!-- FIXME: for screenshot, open some HDR probe file in .exr and maybe open Image/Precision submenu to 
display options -->
+<figure>
+<img src='{filename}images/gimp-2-9-2/2015-11-27-openexr-32bit-float-mode.jpg' alt='32bit float OpenEXR file 
in GIMP' />
+<figcaption>GIMP loads simple <strong>32bit float OpenEXR</strong> files and automatically switched to the 
respective precision mode (featuring a Cornell box reference file).</figcaption>
+</figure>
 
 ## New and Improved Tools
 
@@ -39,7 +44,10 @@ GIMP 2.9.2 also introduced two new tools that we consider mostly complete:
 * **Unified Transform**, designed by Peter Sikking and implemented by Mikael Magnusson, combines rotation, 
scaling, skewing, and adjusting perspective in a single tool.
 * **Warp Transform**, implemented by Michael Muré, replaces the old iWarp plugin and provides its features 
in a tool that works directly on images, without a preview window.
 
-<!-- FIXME: a screenshot with Unified Transform tool activated. Photo of a landscape would be best here -->
+<figure>
+<img src='{filename}images/gimp-2-9-2/2015-11-27-unified-transform.jpg' alt='Unified Transform tool' />
+<figcaption>The <strong>Unified Transform</strong> tool allows to rotate, skew, scale, and change 
perspective all in one go.</figcaption>
+</figure>
 
 We have also improved several existing tools:
 
@@ -47,7 +55,10 @@ We have also improved several existing tools:
 * **Align** tool now features vertical and horizontal fill modes thanks to João S. O. Bueno.
 * **Foreground** Select tool can finally make subpixel selections in complex cases such as strays of hair on 
textured background. Two new masking methods for that were added by Jan Rüegg and Daniel Sabo, and the user 
interface was updated by Michael Natterer.
 
-<!-- FIXME: a screenshot where Blend tool handles are clearly visible -->
+<figure>
+<img src='{filename}images/gimp-2-9-2/2015-11-27-blend-tool-handles.jpg' alt='Blend tool handles' />
+<figcaption>The **Blend** tool now allows tweaking position of start/end handles, as well fill options 
before applying the fill.</figcaption>
+</figure>
 
 Several new experimental tools can be enabled on the _Playground_ page of _Preferences_ dialog:
 
@@ -64,10 +75,9 @@ All the experimental tools are subject to performance optimizations, bugfixes, u
 
 ## File Format Support
 
-<!-- This section might need to go. Or maybe not. -->
+Thanks to Mukund Sivamaran, Rasmus Hahn, and Øyvind Kolås, GIMP now features basic support for OpenEXR 
files, both loading and exporting. It's currently missing advanced features such as layered or 
multiresolution EXR files, or unpremultiplication when exporting etc., but you should be able to load, 
process, and export a "regular" float point EXR file just fine.
 
-* basic OpenEXR loading and exporting
-* initial WebP loading and exporting
+Additionally, GIMP 2.9.2 features initial support for WebP images, also both loading and exporting. Missing 
features so far are ICC profiles, metadata, and animation.
 
 ## Color Management
 
@@ -75,23 +85,33 @@ The color management plugin has been rewritten from scratch by Michael Natterer
 
 GIMP now uses LittleCMS v2 which minimizes color fidelity loss during conversions between 8, 16, 32, and 
64bit per channel data, and provides support for ICC v4 color profiles.
 
-<!-- FIXME: screenshot that e.g. displays ICC metadata preview in a FileOpen dialog. -->
+<figure>
+<img src='{filename}images/gimp-2-9-2/2015-11-27-icc-metadata.png' alt='Displaying ICC color profiles 
metadata' />
+<figcaption>Displaying ICC color profiles metadata</figcaption>
+</figure>
 
 There are still some parts of GIMP like color choosers that need to become color-managed. We expect to 
complete this in time for v2.10.
 
 ## Layers Blending
 
-We have introduced some important changes to blending modes:
+We have introduced some important changes to blending modes.
+
+**Overlay** mode is not identical to **Soft Light** mode anymore and finally relies on a widely used formula 
from both PDF specification, as well as W3C's ["Compositing and Blending Level 
1"](http://www.w3.org/TR/compositing-1/) spec.
+
+When opening legacy XCF files, GIMP will automatically map the old Overlay mode to the Soft Light during 
compositing to preserve the rendering of your old artwork. For all newly created layers with Overlay mode the 
new formula will be used instead.
 
-* FIXME CHANGED MODES
-* FIXME NEW MODES (LCH-BASED ET AL.)
-* FIXME HOW OLD XCF FILES ARE TREATED
+In addition to HSV-based Hue, Saturation, Chroma, and Value modes GIMP now features their CIE LCH based 
counterparts: Hue, Chroma, Color, and Lightness. Elle Stone provided a [nice 
example](http://ninedegreesbelow.com/photography/gimp-lch-blend-modes.html) of using them to post-process 
photos.
+
+Contributors are Rupert Weber, Jörn Meier, Massimo Valentini, Elle Stone, Thomas Manni.
 
 ## Metadata
 
 GIMP 2.9.2 features an experimental dialog to view Exif, XMP, and IPTC metadata—something that we've been 
meaning to provide photographers for quite a while. It doesn't yet support adding or editing existing 
metadata—this will be addressed at a later stage of development.
 
-<!-- Should we mention Hartmut's per-layer metadata branch as something to undergo review in 2.9.x? -->
+<figure>
+<img src='{filename}images/gimp-2-9-2/2015-11-27-metadata-viewer.png' alt='Metadata viewer' />
+<figcaption>Experimental built-in Exif/XMP/IPTC metadata viewer in GIMP. Use <tt>Image-&gt;Image 
Metadata</tt> command to pen it.</figcaption>
+</figure>
 
 ## Digital Painting
 
@@ -113,9 +133,11 @@ To help interested users test experimental features, we added a new _Playground_
 
 _Behaviour_, another new page in the _Preferences_ dialog, helps configuring default snapping in normal and 
fullscreen modes.
 
-<!-- FIXME: screenshot of the Behavior page -->
+<figure>
+<img src='{filename}images/gimp-2-9-2/2015-11-27-behaviour-page.png' alt='Behaviour page in the Preferences 
dialog' />
+</figure>
 
-Finally, the user interface to enable and disable Tools in the toolbox has moved to the _Toolbox_ page in 
the _Preferences_ dialog.
+Finally, the user interface to enable and disable tools in the toolbox has moved to the _Toolbox_ page in 
the _Preferences_ dialog.
 
 ## Known Issues
 
@@ -123,4 +145,8 @@ At this stage, GIMP 2.9.x is mostly very stable and is known to be used in produ
 
 ## Further Plans
 
-<!-- FIXME: not planning anything new and major in 2.9.x, just merging branches, optimizing, polishing, 
because we want 2.10 as fast as possible and 3.0 even faster. Maybe reiterate that v3.0 is for GTK+3 and 
restored Wacom support on Win/Mac, v3.2 for non-destructive editing. -->
\ No newline at end of file
+We are not planning any epic changes in the next 2.9.x releases. We want to release it as fast as we can, so 
we will be focusing on wrapping up what we have already started any maybe merging a few feature branches we 
have.
+
+When GIMP 2.10 is out, we shall focus on the GTK+3 port to provide a more up-to-date user interface and 
restore rock-solid Wacom support on Windows and OS X.
+
+Following GIMP 23.0 release, we shall start working on non-destructive editing and other much anticipated 
features.
\ No newline at end of file
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