[gimp-help-2] Port 2.10 release notes to the user manual, without images for now
- From: Alexandre Prokoudine <aprokoudine src gnome org>
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- Subject: [gimp-help-2] Port 2.10 release notes to the user manual, without images for now
- Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 02:40:03 +0000 (UTC)
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Author: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>
Date: Fri May 4 05:39:11 2018 +0300
Port 2.10 release notes to the user manual, without images for now
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2012-05-05 Marco: created
-->
<sect1 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new">
- <title>What's New in GIMP 2.10? </title>
+ <title>What's new in GIMP 2.10? </title>
<para>
- FIXME: GEGL port, better UI, new tools, and more.
+ GIMP 2.10 is the result of six years of work that originally focused on
+ porting the program to a new image processing engine, GEGL. However the new
+ version ships with far more new features, including new and improved tools,
+ better file formats support, various usability improvements, revamped color
+ management support, a plethora of improvements targeted at digital painters
+ and photographers, metadata editing, and much, much more.
</para>
- <variablelist>
- <title>Major Changes</title>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>High Bit Depth Support</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- FIXME: GEGL port, 16/32-bit, gamma/linear etc.
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>New Color Management Implementation</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- FIXME: all managed, new options
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Major Filters Improvements</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- FIXME: lots of new filters, 32 bpc, on-canvas preview,
- split preview
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Major Filters Improvements</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- FIXME: lots of new filters, 32 bpc, on-canvas preview,
- split preview
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-
- <variablelist>
- <title>Improved User Interface</title>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>New UI and icon themes</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- FIXME
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Action Search</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- FIXME
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Updated Preferences dialog</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- FIXME
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-
- <variablelist>
- <title>Better Layers Workflow</title>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>New and Updated Layer Modes</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- FIXME: Vivid Light, Hard Mix etc. New Overlay.
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
+ <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-ui">
+ <title>Updated user interface and initial HiDPI support</title>
+ <para>
+ One thing immediately noticeable about GIMP 2.10 is the new dark theme and
+ symbolic icons enabled by default. This is meant to somewhat dim the
+ environment and shift the focus towards content.
+ </para>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ There are now 4 user interface themes available in GIMP:
+ <emphasis>Dark</emphasis> (default), <emphasis>Gray</emphasis>,
+ <emphasis>Light</emphasis>, and <emphasis>System</emphasis>. Icons are now
+ separate from themes, and we maintain both color and symbolic icons, so
+ you can configure GIMP to have <emphasis>System</emphasis> theme with
+ color icons if you prefer the old look.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Moreover, icons are available in four sizes now, so that GIMP would look
+ better on HiDPI displays. GIMP will do its best to detect which size to
+ use, but you can manually override that selection in
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Interface</guisubmenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Icon Themes</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Benoit Touchette, Klaus Staedtler,
+ Ville Pätsi, Aryeom Han, Jehan Pagès, Alexandre Prokoudine…
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-gegl-port">
+ <title>GEGL port, high bit depth support, multi-threading, and more</title>
+ <para>
+ The ultimate goal for v2.10 was completing the port to GEGL image
+ processing library, started with v2.6 when we introduced optional use of
+ GEGL for color tools and an experimental GEGL tool, and continued with
+ v2.8 where we added GEGL-based projection of layers.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Now GIMP uses GEGL for all tile management and builds an acyclic graph for
+ every project. This is a prerequisite for adding non-destructive editing
+ planned for v3.2.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ There are many benefits from using GEGL, and some of them you can already
+ enjoy in GIMP 2.10.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>High bit depth support</emphasis> allows processing images with
+ up to 32-bit per color channel precision and open/export PSD, TIFF, PNG,
+ EXR, and RGBE files in their native fidelity. Additionally, FITS images
+ can be opened with up to 64-bit per channel precision.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Multi-threading</emphasis> allows making use of multiple cores
+ for processing. Not all features in GIMP make use of that, it's something
+ we intend to work on further. A point of interest is that multi-threading
+ happens through GEGL processing, but also in core GIMP itself, for
+ instance to separate painting from display code.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>GPU-side processing</emphasis> is still optional, but available
+ for systems with stable OpenCL drivers.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ You can find configuration options for multi-threading and hardware
+ acceleration in
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
+ <guisubmenu>System Resources</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Øyvind Kolås, Ell,
+ Jehan Pagès…
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-linear-color-space-workflow">
+ <title>Linear color space workflow</title>
+ <para>
+ Another benefit of using GEGL is being able to work on images in a linear
+ RGB color space as opposed to gamma-corrected (perceptual) RGB color space.
+ </para>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ Here is what it boils down to:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ You now have both linear and perceptual versions of most blending
+ modes.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ There is now a linear version of the _Color Invert_ command.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ You can freely switch between the two at any time via
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Image</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Precision</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ submenu.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ You can choose which mode is displayed in the
+ <emphasis>Histogram</emphasis> docker.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ You can apply <emphasis>Levels</emphasis> and
+ <emphasis>Curves</emphasis> filters in either perceptual or linear
+ mode.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ When higher than 8-bit per channel precision is used, all channels
+ data is linear.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ You can choose whether the gradient tool should work in perceptual
+ RGB, linear RGB, or CIE LAB color space.
+ </para>
</listitem>
- </varlistentry>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Øyvind Kolås, Ell…
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>New Layer Attributes</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- FIXME: New locks, Color tags. Compositing options.
- Updated dialog.
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Copying Layer Data Across Projects</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- FIXME: just select layer or layer group, Ctrl+C, then Ctrl+V elsewhere.
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Streamlined Mask Creation</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- FIXME: adding/removing layer masks by clicking layer previews
- or via new button inthe Layers dialog. Remembering the added
- mask's type and the invert boolean.
- </para>
+ <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-cms">
+ <title>Color management revamped</title>
+ <para>
+ Color management is now a core feature of GIMP rather than a plug-in. This
+ made it possible, in particular, to introduce color management to all
+ custom widgets we could think of: image previews, color and pattern
+ previews etc.
+ </para>
<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-
- <variablelist>
- <title>New and Improved Tools</title>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ GIMP now uses LittleCMS v2, which allows it to use ICC v4 color profiles.
+ It also partially relies on the babl library for handling color
+ transforms, since babl is simply up to 10 times faster than LCMS2 for the
+ cases we tested both of them on. Eventually babl could replace LittleCMS
+ in GIMP.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Øyvind Kolås…
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>New Unified Transform Tool</term>
+ <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-layers-masks">
+ <title>Layers and masks</title>
+ <para>
+ GIMP now ships with two groups of blending modes: legacy (perceptual,
+ mostly to make old XCF files look exactly as before) and default (mostly
+ linear).
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ New blend modes are:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- FIXME: combines all transform tools, adds missing
- pivot feature.
+ LCH layer modes: <emphasis>Hue</emphasis>,
+ <emphasis>Chroma</emphasis>, <emphasis>Color</emphasis>, and
+ <emphasis>Lightness</emphasis>.
</para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
</listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>New Warp Transform Tool</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- FIXME: replaces iWarp plug-in with on-canvas tool.
+ <emphasis>Pass-Through</emphasis> mode for layer groups.
</para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
</listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>New MyPaint Brush Tool</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- FIXME: options, currently missing pen pressure etc. support
+ <emphasis>Linear Burn</emphasis>, <emphasis>Vivid Light</emphasis>,
+ <emphasis>Linear Light</emphasis>, <emphasis>Pin Light</emphasis>,
+ <emphasis>Hard Mix</emphasis>, <emphasis>Exclusion</emphasis>,
+ <emphasis>Merge</emphasis>, and <emphasis>Split</emphasis>.
</para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
</listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Improved Blend Tool</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- FIXME
- </para>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>
+ Layers, paths, and channels can also be tagged with color labels to
+ improve project organization. This will be even more useful once we add
+ multi-layer selection later on.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Compositing options for layers are exposed to users now, and all
+ layer-related settings are finally available in the
+ <emphasis>Layer Attributes</emphasis> dialog.
+ </para>
<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Better Foreground Select Tool</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- FIXME
- </para>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ Moreover, if you always need alpha in your layers, you can enable automatic
+ generation of the alpha channel in imported images upon opening them. See
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Image Import & Export</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ page for this and more policies.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Layer groups can finally have masks on:
+ </para>
<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Improved support for languages using Input Method Engines</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- FIXME
- </para>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-lab-lch">
+ <title>More use for CIE LAB and CIE LCH</title>
+ <para>
+ With GIMP 2.10, we introduced a number of features that make use of CIE
+ LAB and CIE LCH color spaces:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Color dialogs now have an LCH color selector you can use instead of
+ HSV. The LCH selector also displays out-of-gamut warning.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ A new <emphasis>Hue-Chroma</emphasis> filter in the
+ <emphasis>Colors</emphasis> menu works much like
+ <emphasis>Hue-Saturation</emphasis>, but operates in CIE LCH color
+ space.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <emphasis>Fuzzy Select</emphasis> and the
+ <emphasis>Bucket Fill</emphasis> tools can now select colors by their
+ values in CIE <emphasis>L</emphasis>, <emphasis>C</emphasis>, and
+ <emphasis>H</emphasis> channels.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Both the <emphasis>Color Picker</emphasis> and the <emphasis>Sample
+ Points</emphasis> dialog now display pixel values in CIE LAB and CIE
+ LCH at your preference.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Elle Stone, Ell…
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools">
+ <title>New and improved tools</title>
+
+ <sect3 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools-unified-transform">
+ <title>Unified Transform</title>
+ <para>
+ New <emphasis>Unified Transform</emphasis> tool
+ (<keycombo><keycap>Shift</keycap><keycap>L</keycap></keycombo>) simplifies
+ making multiple transforms, such as scaling, rotating, and correcting
+ perspective in one go. The design is based on a functional spec written
+ by our former UX expert Peter Sikking.
+ </para>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Mikael Magnusson, Michael Natterer…
+ </para>
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools-warp-transform">
+ <title>Warp Transform</title>
+ <para>
+ The new <emphasis>Warp Transform</emphasis> tool (<keycap>W</keycap>)
+ allows doing localized transforms like growing or shifting pixels with a
+ soft brush and undo support. Such tools are commonly used in fashion
+ photography for retouching.
+ </para>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ As such, the new tool retires the old <emphasis>iWarp</emphasis> filter
+ that was innovative at the time of its inception (and pre-dated
+ Photoshop's <emphasis>Liquify</emphasis> filter), but was ultimately
+ cumbersome to use. The <emphasis>Warp Transform</emphasis> tool also
+ features an <guilabel>Eraser</guilabel> mode to selectively remove
+ changes, previously unavailable in the <emphasis>iWarp</emphasis>
+ filter.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Muré, Michael Natterer,
+ Jonathan Tait…
+ </para>
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools-handle-transform">
+ <title>Handle Transform</title>
+ <para>
+ The new <emphasis>Handle Transform</emphasis> tool
+ (<keycombo><keycap>Shift</keycap><keycap>L</keycap></keycombo>) provides
+ an interesting approach at applying scaling, rotating, and perspective
+ correction using handles placed on the canvas. People who are used to
+ editing on touch surfaces might find this tool strangely easy to grasp.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Johannes Matschke, Michael Natterer,
+ Ell…
+ </para>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools-gradient">
+ <title>Blend tool becomes Gradient tool and gets on-canvas editing</title>
+ <para>
+ We renamed the <emphasis>Blend</emphasis> tool to
+ <emphasis>Gradient</emphasis> tool and changed its default shortcut to
+ <keycap>G</keycap>. But this pales in comparison to what the tool can
+ actually do now, and it's a lot.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The new tool pretty much obsoletes the old <emphasis>Gradient
+ Editor</emphasis> dialog. Now you can create and delete color stops,
+ select and shift them, assign colors to color stops, change blending and
+ coloring for segments between color stops and create new color stops
+ from midpoints <emphasis>right on the canvas</emphasis>.
+ </para>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ All gradients available by default are also "editable" now. What it
+ means is that when you try to change an existing gradient from a system
+ folder, GIMP will create a copy of it, call it a <emphasis>Custom
+ Gradient</emphasis> and preserve it across sessions. Unless, of course,
+ you edit another 'system' gradient, in which case it will become the new
+ custom gradient.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ We intend to use the generic implementation of this later for brushes
+ and other types of resources.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Henning, Michael Natterer,
+ Ell, Øyvind Kolås…
+ </para>
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools-selection">
+ <title>Better selection tools</title>
+ <para>
+ The <emphasis>Foreground Select</emphasis> tool can finally make
+ subpixel selections in complex cases such as strays of hair on textured
+ background. Two new masking methods are now available for that.
+ </para>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>New foreground select tool using Matting Global for fine selections of foreground objects,
particularly things like find hairs.</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ The <emphasis>Select by Color</emphasis> and <emphasis>Fuzzy
+ Select</emphasis> tools now both feature a <guilabel>Draw mask</guilabel>
+ option to display future selection area with a magenta fill, and the
+ latter tool also got a <guilabel>Diagonal neighbors</guilabel> option to
+ select diagonally neighboring pixels.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For the <emphasis>Free Select</emphasis> tool, closing a polygonal/free
+ selection now doesn't confirm the selection automatically. Instead you
+ still can tweak positions of nodes (where applicable), then press
+ <keycap>Enter</keycap>, double-click inside the selection, or switch to
+ another tool to confirm the selection.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <emphasis>Intelligent Scissors</emphasis> tool finally allows to
+ remove the last added segment with <keycap>Backspace</keycap> key, and
+ GIMP now checks, whether the first and the last segments are distinct
+ before closing the curve.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Jan Rüegg, Daniel
+ Sabo, Ell…
+ </para>
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools-color">
+ <title>Color tools</title>
+ <para>
+ All color tools have been refactored to become GEGL-based filters, so
+ they could be properly used later on when we introduce non-destructive
+ editing. Hence, the <emphasis>Color</emphasis> submenu in the
+ <emphasis>Tools</emphasis> menu has been removed, and these filters are
+ now mostly unavailable in the toolbox.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer…
+ </para>
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools-text">
+ <title>Text tool supports CJK and more writing systems</title>
+ <para>
+ The <emphasis>Text</emphasis> tool now fully supports advanced input
+ methods for CJK and other non-western languages. The pre-edit text is
+ now displayed just as expected, depending on your platform and input
+ method engine (IME). Several input method-related bugs and crashes have
+ also been fixed.
+ </para>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Jehan Pagès…
+ </para>
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-tools-experimental">
+ <title>Experimental tools</title>
+ <para>
+ Two new tools were incomplete for inclusion to GIMP 2.10 by default, but
+ still can be enabled. Please note that they are highly experimental and
+ likely to be broken for you (up to have GIMP crash). We only mention
+ them, because we need contributors to get them into the releasable state.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>N-Point Deformation</emphasis> tool introduces the kind of
+ smooth, as little rigid as possible warping you would expect physical
+ objects to have.
+ </para>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ The <emphasis>Seamless Clone</emphasis> tool is aimed to simplify making
+ layered compositions. Typically when you paste one image into another,
+ there are all sorts of mismatches: color temperature, brightness etc.
+ This new experimental tool tries to adapt various properties of a pasted
+ image with regards to its backdrop.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To enable these tools, you need to first enable the
+ <emphasis>Playground</emphasis> page of the
+ <emphasis>Preferences</emphasis> dialog. Do it by running GIMP with a
+ <command>--show-playground</command> switch (for Windows, you might want
+ tweaking the path to GIMP in the shortcut properties accordingly). Then
+ you need to go to
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Playground</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>
+ and enable the respective options, so that the tools would show up in
+ the toolbox.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ We need to stress again that you should only do so either if you are
+ very curious, or (which we hope for) intend to help us fix them.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Marek Dvoroznak, Barak Itkin, Jehan
+ Pagès, Michael Natterer…
+ </para>
+ </sect3>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-painting">
+ <title>Digital painting improvements</title>
+ <para>
+ GIMP 2.10 ships with a number of improvements requested by digital
+ painters. One of the most interesting new additions here is the
+ <emphasis>MyPaint Brush</emphasis> tool (<keycap>Y</keycap>) that first
+ appeared in the GIMP-Painter fork.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The <emphasis>Smudge</emphasis> tool got updates specifically targeted in
+ painting use case. The new <guilabel>No erase effect</guilabel> option
+ prevents the tools from changing alpha of pixels. And the foreground color
+ can now be blended into smudged pixels, controlled by a new
+ <guilabel>Flow</guilabel> slider, where 0 means no blending.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ All painting tools now have explicit <guilabel>Hardness</guilabel> and
+ <guilabel>Force</guilabel> sliders except for the
+ <emphasis>MyPaint Brush</emphasis> tool that only has the
+ <guilabel>Hardness</guilabel> slider.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Most importantly, GIMP now supports canvas rotation and flipping to help
+ illustrators checking proportions and perspective.
+ </para>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ A new <guilabel>Brush lock to view</guilabel> option gives you a choice
+ whether you want a brush locked to a certain zoom level and rotation angle
+ of the canvas. The option is available for all painting tools that use a
+ brush except for the <emphasis>MyPaint Brush</emphasis> tool.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ New <emphasis>Symmetry Painting</emphasis> dockable dialog, enabled on
+ per-image basis, allows to use all painting tools with various symmetries
+ (mirror, mandala, tiling…).
+ </para>
<!-- <figure>
<title>FIXME</title>
<mediaobject>
@@ -336,16 +637,26 @@
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure> -->
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
+ <para>
+ This new version of GIMP also ships with more new brushes available by
+ default.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Alexia Death, Daniel
+ Sabo, shark0r, Jehan Pagès, Ell, Jose Americo Gobbo, Aryeom Han…
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Even More Improvements</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- FIXME: Align, Move, Select by Color, Fuzzy Select,
- Intelligent Scissors, Bucket Fill, Color Picker.
- </para>
+ <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-photography">
+ <title>Digital photography improvements</title>
+ <para>
+ Some of the new GEGL-based filters are specifically targeted at
+ photographers: <emphasis>Exposure</emphasis>,
+ <emphasis>Shadows-Highlights</emphasis>, <emphasis>High-pass</emphasis>,
+ <emphasis>Wavelet Decompose</emphasis>, <emphasis>Panorama
+ Projection</emphasis> and others will be an important addition to your
+ toolbox.
+ </para>
<!-- <figure>
<title>FIXME</title>
<mediaobject>
@@ -355,19 +666,24 @@
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure> -->
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-
- <variablelist>
- <title>More Painting Features</title>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Canvas Rotation and Flipping</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- FIXME
- </para>
+ <para>
+ On top of that, the new <emphasis>Extract Component</emphasis> filter
+ simplifies extracting a channel of an arbitrary color model (LAB, LCH,
+ CMYK etc.) from currently selected layer. If you were used to decomposing
+ and recomposing images just for this, your work will be that easier now.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Moreover, you can now use either <emphasis>darktable</emphasis> or
+ <emphasis>RawTherapee</emphasis> as GIMP plug-ins for opening raw digital
+ photos. Any recent version of either application will do.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ A new <emphasis>Clip Warning</emphasis> display filter will visualize
+ underexposed and overexposed areas of a photo for you, with customizable
+ colors. For now, it’s mostly geared towards images where colors are stored
+ with floating point precision. You will mostly benefit from this if you
+ work on 16/32 bit per channel float images such as EXR and TIFF.
+ </para>
<!-- <figure>
<title>FIXME</title>
<mediaobject>
@@ -377,110 +693,46 @@
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure> -->
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Ell, Thomas Manni,
+ Tobias Ellinghaus, Øyvind Kolås, Jehan Pagès, Alberto Griggio…
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Painting Symmetry</term>
+ <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-effects">
+ <title>Effects</title>
+ <para>
+ GIMP now ships with over <emphasis>80</emphasis> GEGL-based filters. A lot
+ of those are former GIMP effects. Here is why GEGL-based implementations
+ are better:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- FIXME
+ You can apply them on images in 32-bit per color channel precision
+ mode.
</para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
</listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Painting on transparent layers</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- FIXME: Painting with various blend modes on a transparent
- layer. See Americo's posts on Google+.
+ You can preview them right on the canvas, and if an image is larger
+ than the viewport, GIMP will render the viewport first for immediate
+ feedback.
</para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
</listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Color History</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- FIXME
+ You can use split preview to compare original image with its processed
+ version and swap before/after sides both horizontally and vertically.
</para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-
- <variablelist>
- <title>Improved File Formats Support</title>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Better Support for TIFF, PNG, PSD</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- FIXME: 16/32-bit, layer modes in PSD etc.
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
</listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Basic OpenEXR Support</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- FIXME: loading and exporting
+ In a future non-destructive GIMP, you will be able to adjust settings
+ of those filters without undoing a ton of steps.
</para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
</listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Newly added WebP support</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- FIXME: static and animation, ICC profiles, metadata
- </para>
+ </itemizedlist>
<!-- <figure>
<title>FIXME</title>
<mediaobject>
@@ -490,131 +742,115 @@
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure> -->
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
+ <para>
+ Some of the GEGL-based filters have OpenCL version for hardware
+ acceleration. This will come in handy, if OpenCL drivers work well for you.
+ Furthermore many operations can come multi-threaded to use your processor
+ at their full power.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Øyvind Kolås, Thomas
+ Manni…
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>New Raw Importer via darktable</term>
+ <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-usability">
+ <title>Usability improvements</title>
+ <para>
+ While working with active users, we got rid of quite a few usability
+ issues. Here are just some of these changes:
+ </para>
+ <itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- FIXME
+ All transformation tools now automatically disable original layer view
+ so that you could clearly see adjustments against the backdrop.
</para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
</listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-
- <variablelist>
- <title>Better Image Metadata Support</title>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>View Exif/XMP/IPTC metadata</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- FIXME
+ Masks can now easily be created with last values you used by just
+ pressing <keycap>Shift</keycap> and clicking on respective layer's
+ preview.
</para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
</listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Read and save metadata in JPEG, TIFF, PNG</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- FIXME
+ All dialogs except the ones like <emphasis>Scale</emphasis> now
+ remember last values you used across sessions.
</para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
</listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-
- <variablelist>
- <title>Miscellaneous</title>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Improved remote file access</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- FIXME
+ All GEGL-based filters allow saving named presets and automatically
+ make timestamped presets for the last time you used them.
</para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
</listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Wider configurability</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- FIXME
+ You can now choose fill color or pattern for empty spaces after
+ resizing the canvas.
</para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
</listitem>
- </varlistentry>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>
+ There is a lot to improve to make GIMP better suited for professional
+ workflows. As usual, we welcome constructive discussion and recently
+ created a
+ <ulink url="https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-gui-list";>mailing
+ list</ulink> to discuss the topic of improving GIMP's usability. This is
+ a long-term enhancement process, which can take more time than localized
+ changes and features.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Daniel Sabo, Benoit
+ Touchette, Massimo Valentini, Jehan Pagès…
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Add undo/redo to many tools using the normal shortcuts</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- FIXME
- </para>
-<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata format="PNG"
- fileref="FIXME"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </figure> -->
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
+ <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-file-formats">
+ <title>File formats support</title>
+ <para>
+ GIMP is now capable of reading and writing TIFF, PNG, PSD, and FITS files
+ with up to 32-bit per channel precision where applicable.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The PSD plug-in additionally supports <emphasis>pass-through</emphasis>,
+ <emphasis>hard mix</emphasis>, <emphasis>pin light</emphasis>,
+ <emphasis>vivid light</emphasis>, and <emphasis>linear light</emphasis>
+ blending modes.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ GIMP now also ships with native WebP support, including features like
+ animation, ICC profiles, and metadata. Both importing and exporting are
+ supported.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The JPEG 2000 plug-in was rewritten to use the
+ <emphasis>OpenJPEG</emphasis> library rather than the somewhat obsolete
+ <emphasis>Jasper</emphasis> library.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Finally, the PDF plug-in now supports importing password-protected files
+ (you need to know the password) and exporting multipage PDF documents
+ (each layer will be a page).
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Mukund Sivamaran,
+ Ell, Jehan Pagès, Lionel N, Darshan Kadu…
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Batch processing on multiple files</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- FIXME
- </para>
+ <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-metadata">
+ <title>Metadata viewing, editing, and preservation</title>
+ <para>
+ GIMP now ships with plug-ins for viewing and editing Exif, XMP, IPTC, GPS,
+ and DICOM metadata. They are available via the
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Image</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Metadata</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice> submenu.
+ </para>
<!-- <figure>
<title>FIXME</title>
<mediaobject>
@@ -624,17 +860,85 @@
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure> -->
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
+ <para>
+ GIMP will also preserve existing metadata in TIFF, PNG, JPEG, and WebP
+ files. Each plug-in has respective options when exporting to enable or
+ disable exporting the metadata.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Additionally, users now can set defaults to preserving or not preserving
+ metadata in all affected file format plug-ins at once depending on whether
+ they want complete privacy or, instead, do a lot of microstock
+ photography. The settings are available on the <emphasis>Image Import
+ & Export</emphasis> page in <emphasis>Preferences</emphasis>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Benoit Touchette, Michael Natterer,
+ Jehan Pagès…
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>API changes</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- FIXME
- </para>
+ <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-painting-on-canvas-interaction">
+ <title>On-canvas interaction</title>
+ <para>
+ GIMP 2.10 ships with a new feature that allows some GEGL-based filters to
+ render on-canvas controls. For now, this applies to just three filters:
+ <emphasis>Spiral</emphasis>, <emphasis>Supernova</emphasis>, and
+ <emphasis>Panorama Projection</emphasis>. But there will be more in the
+ future.
+ </para>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>FIXME</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Michael Natterer, Ell…
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-bug-reporting-recovery">
+ <title>Simplified bug reporting and crash recovery</title>
+ <para>
+ We need good bug reports to make GIMP better for you, so we introduced a
+ new feature to watch and intercept critical errors and crashes, then
+ generate a useful error log that you can copy/paste to a bug report.
+ </para>
+<!-- <figure>
+ <title>Debug dialog to simplify bug reporting</title>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata format="PNG"
+ fileref="FIXME"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </figure> -->
+ <para>
+ On development versions, the dialog will be raised on all kind of errors
+ (even minor ones). On stable releases, it will be raised only during
+ crashes. The default behavior can be customized in
+ <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
+ <guisubmenu>Debugging</guisubmenu>
+ </menuchoice>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Please note that we still need you to provide context, e.g. what you were
+ doing when a crash occurred. A step-by-step description of how to
+ reproduce this bug will be most helpful.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Additionally, in case of a crash, GIMP will now attempt to backup all
+ images with unsaved changes, then suggest to reopen them the next time you
+ start the application.
+ </para>
<!-- <figure>
- <title>FIXME</title>
+ <title>Crash recovery dialog</title>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata format="PNG"
@@ -642,22 +946,50 @@
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure> -->
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Known Problems</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Working with graphics tablets could be problematic due to
- the GTK+2 library in use. If in this case either use the
- older version 2.6 or wait for the up coming version 3.0
- for the full GTK+3 support.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
+ <para>
+ We cannot guarantee 100% success, but it will succeed sometimes, and this
+ might rescue your unsaved work!
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>Contributors:</emphasis> Jehan Pagès…
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-api">
+ <title>API changes</title>
+ <para>
+ Over the course of this development cycle, we deprecated a lot of API,
+ providing a compatibility layer for 3rd party developers who write scripts
+ and plug-ins.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For the full list of changes in PDB, please
+ <ulink url="https://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Release:2.10_changelog#API_Changes";>see the wiki</ulink>.
+ This ChangeLog page also has a verbose list of all other changes in 2.10.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="gimp-introduction-whats-new-roadmap">
+ <title>Roadmap and what's next</title>
+ <para>
+ We maintain a <ulink url="http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Roadmap";>roadmap
+ for GIMP development</ulink> that outlines the order of features to be
+ implemented based on priorities.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The next big update will be v3.0 that will feature GTK+3 port and a lot of
+ internal changes. For users, this will mostly mean: updated user
+ interface, better support for graphic tablets, better support for HiDPI
+ displays, better support for Wayland on Linux.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ We are also opening the 2.10.x series for new features. This means you
+ don't have to wait for exciting improvements for years anymore: any new
+ feature can indeed be backported to a 2.10.x release as long as its code
+ is not too invasive and making maintenance difficult.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ All the new features from 2.10.x will be part of 3.0 as well.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
</sect1>
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